China’s avid Internet users are taking a leaf from India’s anti-corruption drama by opening websites so citizens can confess, sometimes in pitiless detail, to buying off officials.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Monday endorsed the idea of a peacekeeping force in Sudan’s disputed Abyei region and encouraged both sides in the conflict to take up an Ethiopian offer of troops.

South Korea on Monday warned the likelihood of a “surprise provocation” by North Korea against the South is on the rise, according to Yonhap News Agency.

The health condition of yoga guru Ramdev, who was admitted to a hospital here on Friday, is improving and he is being treated in a VIP ward, doctors attending on him said on Saturday.

A general who has sided with anti-regime protests said in an interview published on Saturday that Yemen will be safer without embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh in its fight against Al Qaeda.

The Opposition BJP would undertake a mass awareness march across the Northeastern region from June 23 to sensitise people about the UPA government’s alleged corruption and misrule, a top party leader said here on Saturday.

A sexually explicit video of pop diva and actress Jennifer Lopez and her ex-husband Ojani Noa has been recovered, after it was allegedly stolen by his manager.

A formidable lead in hand, a sprightly India would be aiming to seal the series when it takes on a depleted and low-on-confidence West Indies in the third cricket one-dayer of a five-match series, here on Saturday.

Fasting yoga guru Baba Ramdev was rushed to a Dehradun hospital after his health deteriorated but his close aides insisted their leader has not called off his fast that continued for the seventh day against corruption and for retrieval of illegal money stashed abroad.

Shares in Japan’s Tepco hit a new closing low on Thursday, ending the session down 4.0 per cent at 192 yen on uncertainty over the fate of the beleaguered company due to the crisis at its nuclear plant.