Another ten deaths were credited to Mexico's drug wars over the weekend, including four drug gang suspects killed in a chase by security forces in northern Mexico, according to media reports on Sunday

Officials said on Sunday that an oilfield containing an estimated 1.8 billion barrels of oil have been discovered by geologists in northern Afghanistan.

The Afghan government revealed earlier this ye

Myanmar's election commission has set November 7 as the date for a much-awaited general election, national television announced on Friday.

Military-ruled Myanmar, also called Burma, last held an elec

Canadian authorities boarded a ship carrying 490 Tamil migrants off the country's Pacific coast, news reports said.

Vic Towes, Minister for public safety, was quoted by the Vancouver Sun newspaper as

New Zealand diplomats fear terrorists will attack a "soft target" in India ahead of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in October, according to cables reported in a newspaper on Thursday.

One of the

Nagasaki marked the 65th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese port city on Monday, in which about 74,000 people were killed.

The ceremony observed a minute of silence in memory of vic

At least 10 people were killed and 32 others were missing and feared drowned after a boat sank on Monday off a remote eastern Indonesian province, a rescue official and media reports said.

The boat w

New York region's three major airports will next month install full-body scanners, which critics said would violate constitutional rights of American people, news reports said on Friday.

The Port Aut

Noting that the US President, Mr Barack Obama, considers India-US relationship as "one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century," the US senate has resolved to foster and advance the strategic

The former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith and two of her doctors, one of Indian origin, went on trial charged with illegally supplying prescription drugs to the controversial Playboy model and actress