The US Senate has adopted a draft bill to increase unemployment...

The BBC has reported that a man who has been subjected to claims he is the killer of James Bulger, has asked for the UK government to reveal who the real murderer...

Two UK women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father have received an apology from 28 different public...

A young actor who became a teen idol during his time as a Hollywood star, has died of unknown...

Politicians and police authorities in Ukraine are investigating the airline industry after an incident on the main...

The main airport in Bangkok has been locked down by soldiers as the Thai capital prepares for anti-government...

Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital,...

In Myanmar, a new law may force the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, out of the...

Bangladesh has been accused of starving and blocking medical treatment for Rohingya...

US Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east...

The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar...

China has been given direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time since the 19th century, thanks to a lease deal with North...

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has declared the 82 stelae of the Temple of Literature in Vietnam as a World Heritage Site, Prensa Latina...

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) will set up a committee to help restore the Haitian cultural heritage damaged in a devastating earthquake in the Caribbean...

North Korean dictators Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il had placed special agents across Europe for shopping sprees which included buying, luxury carpets, gold-plated guns, small Cessna planes and high-priced foreign cars such as Mercedes-Benz and Lincolns, according to the memoir of former Army Col. Kim...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has banned two of its world-class batsmen, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf, from playing international cricket for life and barred former captain Shoaib Malik and medium-pacer Rana Naveed-ul-Hassan for one year for 'unbecoming behaviour' leading to Pakistan's poor showing recently in...

One-ninth of Nepal's nearly 27 million population face starvation, the UN warned...

India's identification with the United States has clear limits and it will resist any notion that it can be used as an instrument of US policy or as a counterweight to China, says leading international strategic expert, Mr. Adam...

Despite a forgettable show in the ongoing Hockey World Cup, Pakistan's star drag flicker Sohail Abbas has said he has no plans to hang his boots in the near...

The drop in performance of British tennis players at international events has shocked three-time Wimbledon winner Boris Becker, who said players and poor coaching are to blame for...

Manchester United striker Michael Owen has been told that his England career is not over, despite being ruled out of the World Cup with...

Sweden has the most number of bisexual babes in the world and San Francisco is the kinkiest place to visit - these are some of the facts revealed by a new...

Gursewak Dhillon, a part-time taxi driver who dumped three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa's body nearly 20 km from his home in this Australian city, was being probed for 'possible immigration fraud', an official said...

A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television...

Top prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting...

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Thursday, March 11, 2010 LONDON: The United States and Europe face growing tensions over restrictions on export deals involving BAE Systems while European politicians protest the collapse of efforts...

MEXICO CITY - The son of an immigrant shopkeeper has become the first person from a developing nation, and the first from Latin America, to be named the world's richest person. Mexican telecom...

OSLO, Norway — Two years after receiving its first deposits, a "doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world's most diverse repository...

- Record Full Year Revenue of $79.8 Million - 2009 EBITDA(1) of $607,000; Third Consecutive Year of Positive EBITDA While Aggressively Investing to Drive Growth - Announces Upcoming New Service...

MARLTON, N.J. -- Construction consultant Hill International Inc. said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit more than doubled as revenue from its project management and construction claims units...

Warren Buffett took the bronze with a net worth of $47 billion, up $10 billion from last year on soaring Berkshire Hathaway shares. Noticed Forbes' Billions blog has slowed down in recent weeks?...

To European officials, financial derivatives are dangerous weapons that worsened Greece's debt crisis and should be curbed.To Wall Street, they're tools that reduce risk and generate profits and...

China is reportedly in negotiations which could see the economic behemoth build a high-speed railway connecting its capital with the United Kingdom, Russia and Southeast Asia. The new connections...

BP PLC, Europe's second-largest oil company, is the leading candidate to purchase assets worth more than US$5 billion from independent oil and gas producer Devon Energy, the Wall Street Journal said...

3-D BOOM: 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009. SCREEN COUNT GROWING: The number of screens able to show 3-D movies in the U.S....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the new richest person in the world, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, Forbes said on Wednesday. It is only the second time...

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has declared the 82 stelae of the Temple of Literature in Vietnam as a World Heritage Site, Prensa Latina reported. The Temple of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Democratic campaign chairman says the ethics committee has ended an investigation of former Rep. Eric Massa, the New York Democrat who resigned this week over...

The recall of products containing a potentially salmonella-tainted flavoring ingredient ballooned this week with the addition of 1.7 million pounds of ready-to-eat beef taquito and chicken quesadilla...

The Jackson Health System will have little cash on hand by the end of March if it does not receive a $67 million advance from the county, said Marcos Lapciuc, treasurer of the Public Health Trust,...

New York » To European officials, financial derivatives are dangerous weapons that worsened Greece's debt crisis and should be curbed. To Wall Street, they're tools that reduce risk and...

Carlos Slim Helu, the telecom tycoon who pounced on privatization of Mexico's national telephone company in the 1990s, is world's richest person for first time after coming in third place last...

BILL CORCORAN in Cape TownA CHINESE factory that was making the official mascots for the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa has been ordered to stop producing the merchandise because its working...

MICHAEL JANSEN in Sulaimaniya, IraqIRAQ’S ELECTION commission announced yesterday a second postponement of the release of preliminary results of Sunday’s national parliamentary...

Joe Biden, the US Vice-President, yesterday repeated his attack on Israel's plans to build 1,600 new Jewish homes in Arab East Jerusalem as European governments backed his complaint that they...

(CNN) -- Forbes magazine released its annual list of the world's richest people Wednesday, and for only the second time since 1995, Microsoft founder Bill Gates' name was not at the...