A blast ripped through a restaurant in the southwestern Chinese megacity of Chongqing on Friday, injuring 29 people, two critically, state media reported...

Libyans applauded as British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday became the first world leaders to...

China's Ministry of Education has ordered all higher educational institutions to make 'sex and love' course compulsory from this year....

At least 30 people were killed and more than 60 injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the funeral of a pro-government tribal elder in...

KABUL: The 20-hour insurgent assault on the heavily guarded Afghan capital left 27 dead - including police, civilians and attackers - when fighting finally ended on Wednesday....

WASHINGTON: America's new intelligence chief David Petraeus has predicted that al-Qaida leaders may flee Afghanistan and the entire south Asia as they were being pressed hard by American forces...

TEHRAN: Iran has banned TV programmes showing half-naked men and love triangles, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Monday, in the latest sign of a conservative crackdown on media in the Islamic state...

LONDON: British politicians, struggling in their bid to find out who knew what about phone hacking at a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, have recalled son James for further questioning.....

NEW YORK: Republicans have scored an upset victory in a House race that became a referendum on President Barack Obama's economic....

KABUL: Foreign military officials raised the death toll in a 19-hour siege in Kabul to 11 on Wednesday as the Afghan government announced the violence had come to an end with the killing of two insurgents...