The toll in the ongoing cycle of violence in the Kashmir Valley rose to 50 with another youth succumbing to injuries sustained in firing by security forces, police said on Monday as curfew was imposed

Hollywood actress Emma Thompson is planning to take a break from her career to enjoy quality time with her family.

An electric pole surveyor in Australia had a miraculous escape when he suffered only partial burns on being hit by a power surge of 12,700 volts.

The 35-year-old unidentified man suffered partial bur

Drink a bottle of beer in three seconds and go home richer by 100,000 yuan ($14,700). This was the challenge at an annual beer carnival in China.

Over 20,000 local people and tourists showed up for t

A small plane crashed into a home in Pennsylvania state, US, on Saturday, killing at least two people.

The plane — a twin-engine BE58 Beech Baron — crashed into the house in a rural area about 140 km

Conservative, Mr Juan Manuel Santos, took office on Saturday as Colombia's new president, to succeed his former boss Alvaro Uribe with a four-year mandate.

The ceremony in Bogota's Bolivar Square was

Surgeons extracted a hairball weighing 700 grams from the stomach of a 12-year-old Argentine girl suffering from a rare psychological disorder that makes her compulsively eat inedible objects, an offi

Astronauts need to conduct an extra, third spacewalk outside the International Space Station after their efforts to repair a failed cooling system on the orbiter fell short, Nasa said. "I really think

The UN Secretary General, Mr Ban Ki-moon, has named the Israeli and Turkish members of the commission that will investigate Israel's May 31 attacks on a Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla that killed ni

Unfazed by India's attack, the Pakistan foreign minister, Mr Shah Mahmood Qureshi, has justified his statement comparing the home secretary, Mr G.K. Pillai, with Jamaat-ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, sayi