As India assumes the month-long presidency of the UN Security Council, the international community has “very high expectations” from it, New Delhi’s envoy to the United Nations, Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday.

As another US university came under the scanner, the United States asked Indian students to be alert to the existence of “predatory visa fraud rings and fraudulent document vendors”.

US President Barack Obama’s job approval rating slumped to a personal low of 40 per cent in a public opinion survey, a possible reflection of the political war over US debt.

R&B star Rihanna says she loves wearing bizarre clothes to grab people’s attention. The 23-year-old singer prefers to wear clothes which can make heads turn, reported Us magazine.

Another US educational institution with hundreds of Indian students has come under the scanner with dozens of immigration and customs enforcement agents raiding offices at the University of Northern Virginia.

US defence secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday met his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith to discuss a wide range of bilateral and global issues including the war in Afghanistan and global threat from terrorism.

Admitting that counter-terrorism was “first and foremost” on the minds after last week’s Mumbai bomb blasts, the US today pledged "full" support to India's efforts to protect itself from terror attacks, and said it will press Pakistan as "hard" as it can on terror.

Highly praising the significant role of the Indian-American community in strengthening the ties between the two countries, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has said that the Indian diaspora would help Washington and New Delhi to write the next chapter of relationship between the two great democracies of the world.

The top US military officer has left for China in a trip designed to bolster a fledgling security dialogue with Beijing, even as a US naval exercise in the South China Sea threatens to upstage his visit.

The International Monetary Fund has said that it was releasing 3.2 billion euros ($4.6 billion) to Greece as part of its joint bailout with the European Union for the debt-stricken country.