KATHMANDU: A Nepal police official says hundreds of foreign trekkers stranded in the Mount Everest area for the past week are departing on flights now that the weather has cleared at the region's only airport...

PARIS: Prime minister Francois Fillon said on Monday that the salaries of French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his ministers would be frozen as part of austerity measures, calling on business leaders to do the same...

ATHENS: The leaders of Greece's two biggest political parties were in talks on Monday to choose the head of a new interim government, after reaching a historic power-sharing deal to accept a massive financial rescue package and prevent imminent bankruptcy...

  WASHINGTON: Fearful of a surprise US raid, Pakistan is shuffling its nuclear arsenal ...

JERUSALEM: Israeli president Shimon Peres warned on Sunday that...

LONDON: Rumours are reportedly doing the rounds that Prince .....

 NEW YORK: Faced with the difficult task of balancing a budget in ....

LONDON: Six months after his death, a new book has claimed that Osama bin Laden was shot dead within 90 seconds of the...

LONDON:The parent company of the now-closed News of the World tabloid set out details on Friday of its compensation scheme for victims of phone hacking...

LOS ANGELES: Jurors in the involuntary manslaughter case of Michael Jackson's doctor begin deliberations on Friday after a six-week trial that painted...