OSLO: The Arab Spring is the focus of speculation over this year's Nobel Peace Prize, with an Afghan human rights activist and European Union as possible outsiders....

MANILA: Typhoon Nesat that exited the Philippines on Wednesday left at least 31 people dead, displaced over 60,000 families and damaged infrastructure and crops worth over $22 million, officials said...

WASHINGTON: The death of American soldiers at the hands of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism finally forced the U.S military to abandon the fiction of Pakistan being an ally in the war on...

CAIRO: A Saudi woman has been sentenced to be lashed 10 times with a whip for defying the kingdom's prohibition on female drivers, the first time a legal punishment has been handed down...

MANILA: Typhoon Nesat smashed into the Philippines on Tuesday, leaving at least 16 people dead, with the capital Manila enduring waist-deep floods, blackouts and dramatic storm....

BEIJING: A collision between two trains in the Shanghai metro system left 260 people injured, some of them seriously, on Tuesday afternoon. It caused an uproar among thousands of internet...

WASHINGTON: Three distinguished scientists of Indian-origin -- two inventors and a researcher - figure in a celebrated White House honors list this year, broadly underscoring...

NAIROBI: Kenya's Wangari Maathai, who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her environmental work, has died of cancer, the campaigning movement she founded announced on Monday....

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's allpowerful army chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani on Monday cancelled his visit to Britain amid escalating tensions with the US over the ISI's links with Afghan....

SAN JOSE: President Barack Obama on Monday pressed on with a campaign to sell his jobs plan in the four corners of America, after warning a Republican win in 2012 elections could "cripple" the....