Iran on Thursday will host a conference on Syria in a bid to take over the role of brokering peace in its beleaguered Arab ally, replacing Kofi Annan who last week resigned as the UN-Arab envoy in the crisis.

Describing the Wisconsin gurdwara shooting that claimed six lives as 'very shocking', Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has appealed to the Sikhs in the US to keep 'peace and harmony', as he met the victims' families and visited the injured.

A woman set off a high-speed police chase worthy of a Hollywood action movie when she refused to stop after police caught her speeding because she was topless, police said on Tuesday.

On a visit here to commiserate with the Sikhs after the Gurdwara shooting, Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal has been hit with a federal lawsuit by a US-based human rights group alleging the 'torture' of Sikhs in the state.

Right from the day boxer M.C. Mary Kom set foot in London, the international media has been chasing her for interviews.

At least 30,000 Indians would be among the 1.76 million undocumented illegal immigrants who would benefit from US President Barack Obama's new policy to defer deportation of illegal immigrants for two years, a new study said.

New York police has said they want to force Twitter to reveal who posted Tweets threatening to massacre theatergoers in a copycat of the recent bloodbath at a cinema in Colorado.

Pakistan's top court on Wednesday summoned the new Prime Minister to appear later in August to face possible contempt charges escalating a wrangle over corruption cases against the President.

As the Indian contingent was leaving for London, media houses and analysts proclaimed that the boxing team, alone, would win around three medals. I subscribed to that forecast, even if it meant the unthinkable — that athletes of one discipline would match India’s best-ever campaign at the Olympics.

A former girlfriend of the slain suspect in Wisconsin gurudwara shooting that left six Sikhs dead has been arrested and faces charges of possession of illegal weapon.