A suicide bomber killed nine people including security officers at a Damascus mosque on Friday, Syria's interior ministry said, in another blow to a fraying U.N.-brokered truce between President Basha

U.S. economic growth cooled in the first quarter as businesses cut back on investment and restocked shelves at a slower pace, but the biggest rise in consumer spending in more than a year cushioned th

Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, one of the China's most prominent human rights advocates, has escaped from home imprisonment, activists said on Friday, but uncertainty over his whereabouts and f

Four bombs exploded in a city in eastern Ukraine on Friday, wounding 27 people, including nine children, in what authorities described as an 'act of terrorism'.

President Viktor Yanukovich said the b

The landmark gold medal Abhinav Bindra shot down in Beijing four years ago has only served to make life more difficult for the baby-faced marksman and his fellow Indian Olympic shooters.

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India has held talks over exporting refined fuels to its neighbour Pakistan, the head of Hindustan Mittal Energy said on Saturday, at the opening of the company's new refinery close to the border betw

Maruti Suzuki, India's biggest carmaker, beat estimates with a smaller-than-expected 3 per cent fall in fourth quarter net profit, its third consecutive quarterly slide on sluggish sales growth and ti

Maruti Suzuki, India's biggest carmaker, beat estimates with a smaller-than-expected 3 per cent fall in fourth quarter net profit, its third consecutive quarterly slide on sluggish sales growth and ti

Pep Guardiola is expected to take a sabbatical after quitting Barcelona but there are plenty of clubs who would be eager to entice him back to football.

Here are the favourites for his signature.

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Apple Inc is likely to see its sales growth nearly double in greater China in 2012, but the pace will probably taper thereafter as competitors hit back with new products in the biggest global mobile p