The criminal case against ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid, is on the verge of collapsing, the New York Times reported late on Thursday.

In a proverbial battle of the sexes, women of Barbacoas, Colombia, have banned their men from having sex with them until they start construction on a new road.

Over 300 women have joined the protest,

Barack Obama would next week host his first ever Twitter town hall, one of his global online outreach programmes that would enable people across the globe to ask questions directly to the US President

They grow up so fast. But not that fast, Mr. President.

In a news conference on Wednesday, President Barack Obama twice referred to his oldest daughter, Malia, as being 13 years old. Not quite. She's

Computer hackers have reportedly disrupted Al-Qaeda's ability to communicate via the Internet, an anti terror expert has said.

“Al-Qaeda's online communications have been temporarily crippled, and it

Militant groups under the banner of the Taliban in Pakistan as well as those operating in South and Central Asia pose the ‘greatest threat’ to Islamabad's nuclear infrastructure, a report by a US thin

Locked down in his Abbottabad hideout which he never left in six years, Osama bin Laden followed 'absolutely phenomenal operations security', and was taken by surprise when attacked by the US forces,

France's Christine Lagarde was named Tuesday as the first-ever female chief of the IMF, faced with an immediate crisis as violent Greek protests rocked the stability of the eurozone.

The French finan

Finance chiefs from the United States and India pledged on Tuesday to deepen efforts to open up India's financial, retail, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors to competition but offered no specif

Ruling out any rollback of the recent hike in prices of petroleum goods, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the decision to cut duties would not impact the fiscal deficit of the Indian g