Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has become a controversial figure almost overnight with his latest comments on...

Michael Scheuer’s new work “Marching Toward Hell” is very clear with its overall purpose of exposing where American interests have gone wrong in their interactions with the various peoples, beliefs, and religions of the Middle East....

A car bomb has exploded near one of Baghdad's major hospitals, killing four people and wounding...

An Indian worker died of a heart attack as he prepared to visit India on his first holiday in two years while another committed suicide in...

Indian public sector Bank of Baroda (BoB) has announced that it would be offering wealth management services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and its joining hands with Reliance Mutual Fund (RMF) marked the beginning of this...

Zimbabwe has voluntarily offered to withdraw from the 2009 Twenty20 World Cup in England, it was announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) here...

Ten people were killed and 17 wounded Thursday in a gunfight in Benha, 48 km north of the Egyptian capital, a security source...

India and Egypt have expressed concern over skyrocketing fuel and food prices in the course of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's three-day visit to Egypt which concluded...

India have been grouped with top continental sides United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Uzbekistan in Group C for the final qualifying round of the 2011 Asia Cup football...

Reliance Mutual Fund (RMF) of India has joined hands with the public sector Bank of Baroda (BoB) to distribute its products in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...

Washington, July 4 : Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has been branded a "flip-flopper" by the rival Republican Party in the context of the timetable withdrawal of American troops from...

London, July 4 : Sharon Osbourne, Piers Morgan and David Hasselhoff were left stunned during the latest round of 'America's Got Talent' auditions after a former stripper smashed nine beer cans with her 88-inch...

Washington, July 4 : Animal rights group PETA has offered Sharon Stone a free brain scan - in an effort to see if her lack of empathy is the result of a physical defect in her brain....

London, July 4 : Jordan a.k.a. Katie Price and her husband Peter Andre have won a public apology and damages over a newspaper story, which claimed that the couple were bad, uncaring...

New Delhi, July 4 : Mustafa Jassem Al-Shamali, Finance Minister of Kuwait, met Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath here last evening....

International Cricket Council (ICC) Thursday named former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd as the new chairman of the high-profile ICC Cricket...

The family of a 30-year old East Jerusalem man who went amok Wenesday with a bulldozer, killing three people, say he was not a...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) failed to reach consensus Thursday on the fate of Zimbabwe's membership and decided to take a last call...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is awaiting a security report of the ongoing Asia Cup in Pakistan before it can take any decision on holding the Champions Trophy there in...

In a major victory for Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the International Cricket Council (ICC) Thursday changed the result of the controversial Oval Test in 2006 from an England win to a...

India and the Arab League Thursday discussed issues relating to the Middle East in a meeting External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee held with Arab League chief Amr...

Tehran - Iran will reply to the latest incentive package of the United Nations veto powers plus Germany (5+1) on Friday, state television reported. Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeid Jalili told...

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil dropped below $145 a barrel on Friday, but was still within sight of record highs reached in the previous session when traders bought into the market ahead of a holiday weekend...

Obama insists that he has not flip-flopped on Iraq troop withdrawal timetable Obama said he intends to remove troops in 16 months He blamed the McCain campaign for trying to twist his words McCain...

Hamas says it has suspended indirect talks over a proposed prisoner exchange deal due to involve the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The militant group said Israel was not...

Israeli army spokesman Peter Lerner says all cargo passages remained shut Friday morning. He says the decision came Thursday after Palestinians fired a rocket toward Israel. No injuries were...

More than 20,000 Africans have fled across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen this year, twice as many as during the same period in 2007, an aid agency has said. Medecins Sans Frontieres said that almost...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country's archaeological sites. The marble block roughly 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall and 1 1/2 feet...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV is reporting that a moderate earthquake has jolted a small town in eastern Iran. The report says the magnitude-5.2 quake struck at 3:49 a.m. Friday but...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran would consider any military action against its nuclear facilities as the beginning of a war, the country's top Revolutionary Guards commander said in remarks published...

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government on Thursday ordered that campaign materials in upcoming provincial elections can only feature pictures of candidates, in an apparent attempt to keep followers of...

, wearing his standard-issue brown jumpsuit, stepped up to the glass partition and picked up the phone. For weeks, Israeli talking heads had been speculating that Kuntar—a Lebanese militant...

>Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday he might "refine" his Iraq policies after meeting with military commanders there this summer. But hours later he held a second news conference: to emphasize his...

A U.S. report said 43 U.S. soldiers of Native Hawaiian or Pacific Island origin have been killed in the Iraq war, Radio New Zealand International reported on Friday. The report, compiled by the U.S....

ANKARA - Turkish Daily News The United States' second highest ranking military officer yesterday held meetings with Turkish military officials at the General Staff and discussed a number of issues...

FARGO, N.D. – Sen. Barack Obama raised the possibility of slowing a promised gradual 16-month withdrawal from Iraq if he is elected president, saying Thursday that he would consult with...

Larijani Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said here Thursday that Israel faces legitimacy crisis today. "Current problem with the Zionist Regime is the legitimacy crisis. The Regime has never been able to...

Jalili Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili said Friday that Iran will offer response to the letter of the G5+1 Foreign Ministers and the EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana...

Mottaki Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Friday that the kidnapping of four Iranian diplomats in Lebanon is a dark stain in record of the terrorist groups being affiliated to the Zionist...

JERUSALEM - Reuters A deadly rampage in a bulldozer by a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem left Israel grappling yesterday with the dilemma of how to maintain security in the city along with the...

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake has hit north-eastern Iran, causing cracks in some buildings. There were no reports of any casualties, state radio said. The earthquake hit at around 11.10pm Irish time...

FARGO, North Dakota (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama waded into controversy on Thursday over his plans to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq, first saying he might...

Tehran: A 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Iran on Friday, damaging dozens of homes but there were no immediate reports of any casualties, state radio said. The quake hit an area near the...

Barack Obama denied Thursday that he was changing his promise to immediately begin withdrawing troops from Iraq after earlier saying he could "refine" his policy, blaming his Republican opponents for...

Iran has seized four fishing boats from Saudi Arabia with 17 Indian crew on board in Persian Gulf waters near its first nuclear power plant. ''The boats were from Saudi Arabia and had 17 Indian...

DUBAI: Iran has seized four fishing boats from Saudi Arabia with 17 Indian crew on board in Persian Gulf waters near its first nuclear power plant. "The boats were from Saudi Arabia and had 17...

The United Nations refugee agency has interviewed nearly 180 Eritrean and Ethiopian asylum-seekers detained in Egypt to assess their claims for refugee status, and urged the authorities to continue...

LONDON: Celebrity couple Katie Price and her pop singer husband Peter Andre won a public apology and damages yesterday over a newspaper story which claimed they were bad...

AMMAN: A 16-year-old Jordanian boy was charged with murder last night after his 23-year-old sister was stabbed to death in an apparent "honour killing," a judicial official...

TEHRAN: Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi warned the West last night against launching a military attack on Iran or imposing economic sanctions over its contested nuclear...