Islamic charities from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates financed a network in U.S. ally Pakistan that recruited children as young as eight to wage holy war, a local newspaper reported on Sund

At least 17 people were killed when an express train collided with a crowded jeep which was driving across an unmanned railway crossing in Bihar, police said on Sunday.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told President Barack Obama on Friday his vision for the borders of a future Palestinian state would leave the Jewish state with an "indefensible" fro

Fans of American Idolon Thursday opted for an all-teenage, all southern, mostly country season 10 finale, sending Haley Reinhart home after a record 95 million votes.

Arnold Schwarze-negger on Thursday put his Hollywood projects on hold following the scandal over a secret child he fathered 13-years-ago with his housekeeper.

Apple Inc is investigating an explosion that killed two people, injured 16 and forced a production halt at a Foxconn International Holdings Ltd factory in China said to produce the popular iPad 2.

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The Cannes film festival expelled Danish director Lars von Trier on Thursday for jokingly calling himself a Nazi and Hitler sympathiser, leaving the world’s biggest cinema showcase in a state of shock

Pakistan's Taliban said on Friday it had attacked a U.S. consulate convoy in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar, the latest in a surge of violence since U.S. forces killed al Qaeda leader Osam

New York investigators are questioning why the Sofitel hotel in New York waited an hour to call police after International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn left the hotel in a hurry on Satur

India's key social development programmes, which have formed the core election promises of the ruling Congress party at a cost of over 2 per cent of its GDP, are failing to effectively tackle widespre