A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 hit Panama early on Saturday, the US Government reported.

After showing negative growth in 2009-10, non-resident Indian (NRI) deposits in Kerala's State Bank of Travancore (SBT) registered positive growth in the last fiscal, an official said on Saturday.

Two servicemen and four civilians were killed and at least another 23 were wounded in south Yemen during a shutdown called by anti-government protesters on Saturday, officials said.

Cambodia said on Friday it had asked the world court to clarify a 1962 ruling about an ancient temple on its disputed border with Thailand as clashes between the neighbours entered an eighth day.

A former senior Ukrainian official went on trial on Thursday on charges of murdering critical journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000, the most notorious crime in the country's post-Soviet history.

Russia is to propose a plan to boost safety at the world’s nuclear power plants at the G8 summit in May, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday on the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe.

A Kazakhstan official with Unesco was restrained by the crew on a flight from Paris to Rome after he threatened a female flight attendant with a knife and demanded that the plane be diverted to the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

A Jordanian court on Monday put on trial in absentia Danish artist Kurt Westergaard who is being sued in the kingdom for blasphemy over a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.

Bomb blasts that rocked the Northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri have killed at least three people, including a policeman, and wounded 15, police said on Monday.

An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale jolted Solomon Islands at 0416 GMT on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said.