WASHINGTON, Nov 21: An elderly US couple charged with spying for Cuba for almost 30 years pleaded guilty in the conspiracy on Friday, with the husband agreeing

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 
BEIJING, Nov 21: An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early Saturday killed at least 42 workers, state news agency Xinhua said, citing emergency

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 
LONDON, Nov 21: Britain’s opposition Conservatives, tipped to win power in an election next year, said on Saturday they would pull the country’s 25,000 troops

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 
LOS ANGELES, Nov 21: All the hype surrounding the “Twilight” vampire romance sequel is scoring big at the box office, with industry reports estimating on

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 
DHAKA, Nov 21: Police in southwestern Bangladesh on Saturday said they had arrested 14 suspected Islamic militants who had links to a banned group.

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 
COCKERMOUTH (England), Nov 21: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited flood-hit Cumbria in north west England on Saturday to see the damage caused by

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 
TEHRAN, Nov 21: Iran will begin large-scale air defence war games on Sunday to help protect its nuclear facilities against any attack, a senior commander said.

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 
VAVUNIYA (Sri Lanka), Nov 21: Sri Lanka said on Saturday it would grant free movement to the remaining war-displaced civilians held in internment camps, meeting

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

By Caryn Rousseau and Ryan Nakashima
CHICAGO: For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television.

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

By Edouard Guihaire
ARLINGTON (Virginia): Forget singles bars and the mad dash through the speed-dating circuit: Americans in search of love now can find that special someone

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

By Binaj Gurubacharya
KATHMANDU: A Hindu festival in which hundreds of thousands of animals are expected to be sacrificed will go ahead as scheduled in southern Nepal despite

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

By Ian Traynor
BRUSSELS: Europe’s hopes of translating its economic power into global political clout have suffered a severe setback as a result of the timid choices on new

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

By John Hooper
ROME: It is a problem many a company faces in these tough times: how to replace older - and costlier - workers with younger, cheaper ones.

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 
PARIS: Beaten or sexually abused children are more likely to show accelerated ageing of cells later in life, a condition linked to higher rates of cancer and

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

By Alexandra Lesieur
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa plans to create special courts dedicated to handling crimes committed during the World Cup, aiming to speed up the judicial process,

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 
ROME: Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again.

Sunday, 22 Nov, 2009

 
PHOENIX, Nov 20: The US government will audit hiring records of 1,000 firms in agriculture, healthcare and other areas to determine if they have illegal

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

 
COCKERMOUTH (England): Lifeboats and military helicopters rescued hundreds of people overnight in northern England and a policeman was killed as torrential rain

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

 
WASHINGTON, Nov 20: The United States is to review an air defence system established after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks to determine whether the costly program is

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

 
HERAT, Nov 20: Bomb attacks on Friday killed 23 people in Afghanistan, in a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai’s second term that underscored spiralling

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

 
MOSCOW: A Russian Orthodox priest who was an outspoken critic of both Islam and ultra-nationalist groups was shot dead in his Moscow church by a masked

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

 
BRUSSELS, Nov 20: Major world powers expressed disappointment on Friday that Iran has “not responded positively” to a plan for resolving the standoff over its

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

 
NEW DELHI, Nov 20: India, a stronghold of vegetarianism where the cow is a sacred animal for the majority Hindu population, has urged the rest of the world to

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

 
CHICAGO: A tearful Oprah Winfrey on Friday announced that she will take her iconic talk show off the air in 2011 at the end of its 25th season.

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

 
RANCHI (Insdia), Nov 20: Suspected Maoist rebels derailed a passenger train in eastern India, killing two people and injuring more than 40, police said on

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

By Ian Traynor
BRUSSELS: Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium’s centre-right prime minister, pulled off the coup of a long political career on Thursday night by ascending to the post of

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

By Lynne O’Donnell
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai gets down to business on Friday after being sworn in for a second term as the world watches to see if he can deliver on his

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

By Robert Fisk
Up on Diamond Hill, the British Second World War pillbox looks like one of Enver Hoxha’s frontier bunkers, a dome of pre-stressed concrete with rectangular gun

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

By Carlos Hamann
WASHINGTON: Obesity begone! Americans are lacing up athletic shoes and signing up to run in ‘5Ks’, 10-milers and even marathons in record numbers.

Saturday, 21 Nov, 2009

 
VIENNA, Nov 19: UN inspectors revisited Iran’s second uranium enrichment facility on Thursday, diplomats said, after voicing concern that Tehran’s belated

Friday, 20 Nov, 2009