India's national flag will be unfurled at the Olympic Games Athletes Village on Sunday in the presence of a small group of sportspersons and contingent officials after their request for deferring the flag-raising ceremony was turned down by the organisers.

Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar has ruffled feathers in the Pakistan Cricket Board and in government circles by suggesting that the PCB should avoid inviting foreign teams to the country because of the security situation here.

Observing that the 'truth- telling' of US President Barack Obama "evidently pricked the thin skin of India's politicians", a leading American financial daily has said he is in fact 'cheering' the Indian elite and not insulting them.

India won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the first One-dayer of the five-match series here on Saturday.

US President Barack Obama said he was 'shocked and saddened' by the mass shooting at a Denver-area cinema early on Friday in which at least 14 people were killed and 50 wounded.

Saudi authorities are warning non-Muslim expatriates against eating, drinking or smoking in public during Ramadan, the monthlong sunrise-to-sunset fast ” or face expulsion.

12 people were killed and around 40 wounded when a gunman opened fire Friday at a movie theater showing the latest Batman film, police said.

Archeologists have uncovered a 1,600-year-old Mayan temple dedicated to the "night sun" atop a pyramid tomb in the northern Guatemalan forest near the border with Mexico.

Google on Thursday reported a surge in quarterly profit to $2.79 billion on the back of rising online advertising revenue, beating Wall Street expectations.

The traffic on Kalyan-Kasara section of the Central Railway in Thane district of Maharashtra, affected due to the collision between an Express and a local train on Thursday night, will be fully restored by early Saturday morning, a top official said.