GENEVA: Syria's warring sides traded barbs over the failure to achieve concrete results at peace talks in Geneva, amid doubts over the regime's participation in a planned new round in February.

WASHINGTON: The United States warned has China against any move to declare a new air defence zone over parts of the South China Sea including disputed islands.

JAIPUR: The three BJP candidates for Rajya Sabha seats from Rajasthan got elected unopposed on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Is national security adviser Shivshankar Menon the next governor of Jammu & Kashmir? There is a strong speculation that he may be appointed to the high profile but sensitive post to replace N N Vohra in the coming weeks.

PATNA: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday ruled out the possibility of a "third or fourth front", but said several members of erstwhile Janata Dal (JD) were in talks for being "federated" as a political alliance for the upcoming parliamentary election.

WELLINGTON: Mahendra Singh Dhoni must be sick of winning... the toss; or, at least, of 300-run targets, inexplicable panic attacks, embarrassing collapses, futile fightbacks and numbing defeats.

WELLINGTON: Describing India as the "wobbling world champions", the New Zealand media on Saturday hailed the Black Caps' comprehensive 4-0 win over the visiting side in the just-concluded five-match ODI series.

NEW DELHI: The signs are good at the moment. Doctors have started weaning Michael Schumacher off induced coma and according to a French newspaper, the seven-time F1 champion was 'blinking' during the first stage of brain tests.

BOSTON: US prosecutors on Thursday announced they will seek the death penalty against 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing, instantly raising the stakes in what could be one of the most wrenching trials the city has ever seen.

WASHINGTON: The US Air Force said on Thursday that 92 nuclear missile officers are now implicated in a widening scandal over cheating on exams as officials cited "systemic problems" in the force.