India's leading software services exporter, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS.NS), is eyeing acquisitions in Germany and Japan in the healthcare sector, its chief executive said on Monday, as it looks to

Indian gold and silver traders bought the metal at record prices to stock for Akshaya Tritya and the wedding season, expected to extend till May, providing underlying support to world prices, dealers

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Suresh Kalmadi, former chief organiser of the Delhi Commonwealth Games on Monday as part of a crackdown in a slew of corruption scandals.

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Government forces retreated in Libya's coastal city of Misrata after two months of siege, but seized a rebel town in the remote Western Mountains, with no sign yet of Muammar Gaddafi being dislodged f

Lindsay Lohan was briefly jailed again on Friday after a rollercoaster day in which a judge downgraded her jewellery theft charge, but sentenced the actress to four months behind bars for violating her probation. Looking confused and distressed, Lohan — who was locked up for two weeks last summer — was taken immediately to jail from court after a day-long preliminary hearing on charges that she stole a $2,500 gold necklace from a store in January.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to step down within weeks in return for immunity from prosecution, putting him on course to become the third veteran Arab leader toppled this year by str

President Obama on Friday authorised the use of armed drones to help rebels bogged down in their bid to oust Muammar Gaddafi even as the top American commander warned that the conflict was 'moving tow

A penitent grimaces in pain while being nailed to a wooden cross on Good Friday at Cutud in San Fernando City, the Philippines.

Previously unk-nown newsmakers from Egypt and Japan joined pop stars and politicians on Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people in the world released on Thursday.

Britain’s royal wedding is generating around 9,000 mentions a day online, or one every 10 seconds, according to a study from specialist technology firm Greenlight published on Tuesday.