India has rejected U.S. firms for an $11 billion fighter jet contract, shortlisting European firms instead, in a move that could sour its relationship with the United States while broadening its strat

McDonald's made its name serving up hamburgers fast, but it took the world's biggest hamburger chain four years to enter India - without its signature dish.

A number of fast-food and cafe chains - St

A blast hit a bus carrying Pakistani navy officials in Karachi on Thursday, wounding 15 people, a provincial government official said, the third attack on the navy in less than a week.

"Till now we h

South Korea's Hyundai Motor reported a 47 per cent jump in quarterly net profit, driven by strong demand for its new models as its Japanese rivals grapple with the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake

Britain's Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton are to get married on Friday.

Following is a timeline of Britain's Royal family in the last 100 years.

1910 - King George V ascends the thr

Russian revellers can now swap vodka and dancing for tea and reading at new ‘spiritual nightclubs’ being set up by Orthodox Church, media said on Monday quoting a top religious official. In the lates

Old alligators don't travel far.

At least that was true in the case of a nine-foot, 20-year-old alligator that escaped earlier this month at the Governor Mike Huckabee Delta Rivers Nature Center in P

Nokia, the world's largest phone maker by volume, will lay off 4,000 people and outsource another 3,000 to Accenture as part of a plan to slash annual spending by 1 billion euros ($1.46 billion).

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Last minute rehearsals for this week's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton got under way before dawn in central London on Wednesday with the royal couple expected to put the final touches to

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Police say that millions of dollars were paid in bribes to ensure favours for certain firms in 2007/08, when India issued 122 new licen