German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government called for unity on Thursday after rebels forced a humiliating vote over the presidency that could lead to a watering down of her austerity package.

Do you have Irish ancestry? Are you travelling to Ireland soon and hoping for discounts? The Irish government may have the answer for you.

Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned on Wednesday in a move aimed at resolving a political crisis and saving the peace process more than three years after the end of a decade-long Maoist

If India’s cellular revolution is a boon to consumers, it has become a nightmare for operators that is likely to get worse before it gets better.
Consolidation in the 15-player market, which is the world’s second-largest with more than 600 million users and growing by 16 million a month, looks at least a year away unless rules change.

Russia on Tuesday said US allegations that it had broken up a major Russian spy ring just days after President Dmitry Medvedev met Barack Obama in Washington were baseless and improper. The US said it had arrested 10 suspected spies who had recruited political sources and gathered information for the Russian government.

The Vatican said on Tuesday it would prove it cannot be held legally responsible for the actions of a priest at the centre of a sexual abuse scandal in the United States.

Russia on Tuesday said US allegations that it had broken up a major Russian spy ring just days after President Dmitry Medvedev met US President Barack Obama in Washington were baseless and improper.

Israel’s Prime Minister and defence chief will be called to testify in an investigation into a deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, the leader of an Israeli commission of inquiry said in an opening sta

Emergency plans will help Iran boost gasoline output sharply by early 2012, an official said in comments published on Sunday, after the US Congress approved a bill to penalise firms supplying the Islamic state with the fuel.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez described Israel on Saturday as a genocidal state that acted as an assassin for the US, predicting the West Asian nation would one day be “put in its place.” The socialist Chavez is a harsh critic of both Israel and the United States and cut relations with Israel after accusing it of “holocaust” for its 2009 offensive in the Gaza Strip.