One player and a crew member were critically injured but survived on Wednesday’s crash of a plane carrying a top Russian ice hockey team at the central Russian city of Yaroslavl.

The European Union on Thursday termed as a "heinous act" the terrorist attack outside the Delhi high court on Wednesday that killed 12 people and injured more than 90, a statement said.

A leaked US diplomatic cable has said that Bollywood welcomed funding from gangsters and politicians, known in India as “black money.”

Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, on Tuesday afternoon asked Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati to apologise for making personal attacks against him.

Even as Lionel Messi landed in Dhaka, it was failure of the Teesta accord, which dominated newspapers and the audio visual channels. Some local Bengali papers went on to describe the West Bengal chief minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, as a “drama queen.”

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that Bangladesh was in the midst of a major socio-economic transformation. “Your economy has witnessed steady growth during the last several years and you have achieved commendable successes in eradicating poverty, hunger, illiteracy and

The US is considering the option of keeping some 3,000 troops in Iraq by the end of the year, according to media reports.

Handed another demoralising defeat by England on a miserable tour, Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni bemoaned the injury-crisis that has hit his side, saying that all his plans fall apart due to the lack of options at his disposal.

US President Barack Obama, President Pratibha Patil, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul. Amongst the several leaders whose photographs were found in a deserted Maoist camp in Chhattisgarh, police officials said on Tuesday.

Michael Clarke will look to put his first Test series as Australia's captain beyond Sri Lanka's reach when the second match opens in Pallekele on Thursday.