JERUSALEM: An Israeli writer has won a historic court victory granting his request to be officially registered as "without religion" rather than "Jewish", Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported...

Denmark on Saturday became the first country in the world to impose a fat tax after a week in which consumers hoarded butter, pizza, meat and milk to avoid the immediate effects. "We have had to..

You can't keep a wild animal in your backyard and expect it to go only after your neighbor...

Back-to-back typhoons have left at least 55 people dead and rescuers scrambling to...

Afghanistan's intelligence service said on Saturday it has given Pakistan hard evidence that former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani's...

The government on Friday released the last batch of some 1,800 former LTTE guerrillas who underwent rehabilitation after the end of a...

Pilgrims participating in the Holy Haj pilgrimage of 2011 have started arriving in the holy cities of Makkah and Medinah....

Thirty-seven people were arrested on Thursday in a drug bust at a Boeing plant in Pennsylvania that makes military aircraft...

ISLAMABAD: The United States must stop blaming Islamabad for regional instability, Pakistan's prime minister told a gathering of the country's political leaders on Thursday, as....

WASHINGTON: The FBI has arrested a 26-year- old man, a suspected al-Qaida follower , for plotting to attack the Pentagon and US Capitol with remote-controlled aircraft filled with deadly C-4 plastic explosives....