A car bomb exploded inside the residence of a provincial minister in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Thursday, killing at least two people.

The explosion occurred in Balochistan finance minister

Renowned nuclear technocrat and scientist Homi N. Sethna died at his home here late Sunday, official sources said on Monday.

A former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Sethna was 86. He is su

A mid-air collision between two light aircraft taking part in a competition in Britain killed two people.

One of the planes crashed into a dense woodland near Ryde town in the Isle of Wight, killing

At least 13 people were killed in a powerful explosion that ripped through a procession taken out by the Shia community in Pakistan's Quetta city on Friday, media reports said.

The blast took place n

Two women died of swine flu in Orissa, taking the total number of deaths due to the influenza to 19 in the state since July, an official said on Monday.

The women died on Sunday at the Veer Surendra

One person died and thousands were evacuated on Sunday as a volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted for the first time in 400 years, shooting black smoke and ash up to 1,500 metres into th

The 17-year-old daughter of the US ambassador to Thailand was killed on Friday after falling out of a window from a 25th story apartment in New York, police said.

Nicole John was at an overnight part

William B. Saxbe, who served as the US Ambassador to India during most of the tumultuous days of emergency, has died after a prolong illness. Saxbe, 94, was suffering from pancreatic cancer. In the US

Two persons, including a woman, were killed and four injured in flashfloods and house collapse in Rajouri and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir.

Jeet Singh was killed and his brother Sunil was i

One more person injured in firing by security forces in Kashmir Valley succumbed to his injuries on Monday, when restrictions and curfew continued in several towns, including this summer capital that