ATHENS/CANNES: Greece's government was on the brink of collapse on Thursday, casting doubt on plans for a referendum on staying in the euro, as European leaders talked for the first time....

Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday that Tehran was "prepared for the worst" and warned the US against putting itself on "collision course" with his country. On the sidelines of a....

BEIJING: Seeking to broaden its appeal to China's better-educated and perhaps more hip youth, the People's Liberation Army has dropped a longtime bar to enlisting in the service: now....

PARIS: The offices of a French satirical newspaper that published a special Arab Spring edition with the Prophet Mohammed as "guest editor" were destroyed...

SYDNEY: A London HC decision upholding Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden makes it more likely he will be sent to US and even tortured...

MOSCOW: Former Russian spy Anna Chapman has found herself at the center of a plagiarism scandal after prominent bloggers accused her of "copy-pasting" from a book by a Kremlin spin doctor....

SHANGHAI: China's southern city of Zhuhai on Tuesday became the latest to restrict home purchases and cap property prices after Beijing rebuffed recent talk that it might relax policies aimed ....

The burial of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been delayed for a few days until arrangements for the location are finalised, the oil minister of...

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who died of wounds suffered during a gunbattle to capture him reportedly said "Don't shoot...

Muammar Gaddafi's love of comic-opera uniforms, exotic female bodyguards and Bedouin tents provided a theatrical backdrop for 42 years of bloody...