As Myanmar prepares to vote in only its third election in 50 years, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party faces a challenge that seems at odds with her global celebrity and long fight for democra

Pope Benedict urged Cubans on Wednesday to search for 'authentic freedom' and wound up his trip with a chat with the communist country's revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.

The two octogenarians spoke f

Troubled carrier Kingfisher Airlines Ltd has named three independent directors on its board to comply with rules, after the last of its independent directors quit last week amid growing concerns over

Foreign brokerages are complaining at recent provisions to tax indirect investments and combat tax evasion, saying they are couched in ambiguous language and could also be used to target overseas mark

Astronomers hunting for rocky planets with the right temperature to support life estimate there may be tens of billions of them in our galaxy alone.

Vijay Mallya, scrambling to raise funds to rescue his ailing Kingfisher Airlines, is considering selling part of his stake in his flagship liquor business to Dutch brewery giant Heineken, media report

Half a world away from Wall Street, the board of directors of embattled Goldman Sachs Group Inc were meeting in India amid reports that senior executives have talked about splitting the roles of chief

Pope Benedict and Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, both octogenarians, joked about their age in a brief meeting on Wednesday and then Castro popped the question: so what do you do?

The two wo

Social-networking site Facebook is halting the sale of its shares on secondary markets effective next week as the company prepares to hold its initial public offering in May, according to a person fam

Moody's Investors Service said that China's authorities have begun to prepare for a rebalancing of the economic roles of the public and private sectors, and which if successful would imply a fundament