The UN Security Council on Friday agreed to withdraw nearly 3,000 blue-helmeted troops and police, bringing the unpopular force's size close to where it was before a devastating earthquake in January 2010.

It was around midnight on a Saturday when a group of men in gray overalls calmly strolled into a bank on Brazil's equivalent of Wall Street, waved to the guard and said they were there to fix the alar

Suzuki Motor Corp accused Volkswagen of breaching a partnership pact by withholding hybrid technology it promised to share, pushing their two-year-old alliance to the brink of disintegration.

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The US and its European allies on Wednesday warned that Iran may face retaliation after Washing-ton detailed an alleged Iranian plot by two Iranians linked to security agencies to assassinate the Saud

The government will infuse 45 billion to 80 billion rupees ($919.7 million to $1.6 billion) of funds in top lender State Bank of India (SBI) by March 2012, D.K. Mittal, secretary of financial services

Women in New Delhi will soon be able to fight off potential attackers with a push of a phone button that will alert not only friends, family and police but also sound an alarm on their social networki

Ten out of 21 samples taken during a trial for the second Kabaddi World Cup, to be held next month in Punjab, have tested positive for banned steroids and a stimulant, the National Anti-Doping Agency

Anti-Wall Street protesters say the rich are getting richer while average Americans suffer, but the group that started it all may have benefited indirectly from the largesse of one of the world's rich

Raj Rajaratnam, a self-made hedge fund tycoon convicted in the biggest Wall Street trading scandal in a generation, was ordered on Thursday to serve 11 years in prison, one of the longest sentences on

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will change its monetary policy stance only if inflation eases and further rate increases will depend on the price rise situation, Subir Gokarn, a deputy governor at th