Michelin-starred and other gourmet eateries across France will slash prices for a week in September to bring in a less well-heeled clientele and rid “haute cuisine” of its stuffy, pretentious image.

Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested five CIA informants who fed information to the US spy agency before the raid in May which killed Osama bin Laden, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

A woman robbed a Colorado bank by passing a note saying she would infect a teller with AIDS if the clerk didn't hand over money, police said on Friday.

Jeff Satur, spokesman for the Longmont, Colorad

Clinging to the under-belly of a baboon, Gakii, a 3-month-old orphaned bush baby has plumped for an unlikely surrogate-mother.

In the grounds of the Nairobi Animal Orphanage, the duo cavort around in

China’s avid Internet users are taking a leaf from India’s anti-corruption drama by opening websites so citizens can confess, sometimes in pitiless detail, to buying off officials.

Somali police said on Saturday that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of Africa’s most wanted al Qaeda operatives, was killed in the capital of the Horn of Africa country on Tuesday. —Reuters

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday.

Pacemen Zaheer Khan and Shanthakumaran Sreesanth have been ruled out of the test series against West Indies due to injuries, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Friday.

Abhimanyu Mithun and Prave

Mexico's central bank chief Agustin Carstens on Friday said India had not committed to support his candidacy as head of the IMF, as officials in the Asian nation said they would make their choice late

A very rich dog, which inherited $12 million from US hotelier Leona Helmsley, has died, a spokeswoman for the deceased hotel mogul’s trust said. Helmsley, who owned the Helmsley hotel chain, left $12 million to care for her beloved Maltese named Trouble when she died in 2007. A judge reduced the amount to $2 million.