U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney met on Tuesday (Wdenesday IST) at New York’s Hofstra University for the second of three presidential debates ahead of the Nov. 6 electi

Lance Armstrong might take a lie detector test to clear his name from doping allegations, his lawyer said on Sunday, as ripples of the biggest scandal to hit cycling prompted Austr-alian officials to

Finance minister P. Chidambaram called on Saturday for the country’s central bank to take “calibrated risks” to support the struggling economy as a reciprocal measure to government fiscal efforts.

Bill Gates and Kofi Annan are among several prominent businessmen and humanitarians asking a US judge to show fairness when he sentences former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. board member Rajat Gupta for his insider trading conviction later this month.

One of the Taliban's most feared commanders, Maulana Fazlullah, carefully briefed two killers from his special hit squad on their next target.

The gunmen weren't going after any army officer, politic

Infosys Ltd, India's No.2 software services exporter, reported a 24 percent rise in quarterly profit, meeting expectations, due to higher demand for its outsourcing services by Western clients looking to cut costs.

The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for its long-term role in uniting the continent, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday, an award seen as morale boost for the bloc as it struggles to resolve its debtcrisis.

The BSE Sensex ended lower on Wednesday led by a fall in banking stocks including ICICI Bank , and as sentiment was also hit by Standard & Poor's remarks that the country still faced the risk of a rat

Pakistani surgeons removed a bullet on Wednesday from a 14-year-old girl shot by the Taliban for speaking out against the militants and promoting education for girls, doctors said.

Russia delayed delivery of a trouble-plagued aircraft carrier for at least a year on Friday, a blow to India's efforts to quickly build up naval strength as increasingly assertive Asian rival China ex