A Singapore Airlines plane flying from Moscow to Singapore made an emergency landing on Sunday in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata after a bomb scare, an airport official told AFP.

The Bangladesh police said on Monday they had arrested a Pakistani national suspected of being the main local coordinator for the banned militant Islamist group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT).

Thirteen people were killed and dozens were missing on Monday after flash floods smashed through a district in eastern Indonesia's Papua province, officials said.

London, Oct. 2: Britain has recognised druidry as an official religion for the first time, thousands of years after the Celtic pagan faith emerged in Europe, the country’s charity commission said on S

Britain has recognised Druidry as an official religion for the first time, thousands of years after the Celtic pagan faith emerged in Europe, the country’s charity commission said Saturday.

Iran has scrapped a ban on internationally acclaimed director Asghar Farhadi’s unfinished film after he tendered an apology to the culture ministry, ILNA news agency said on Saturday.

Washington, Oct. 3: The US state department issued a formal alert on Sunday warning Americans traveling in Europe to remain vigilant against “the potential for terrorist attacks” and urging precaution

Washington, Oct. 1: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is involved in an unfolding plot to launch attacks on European cities and may have even targeted the United States, National Public Radio reported on

US researchers have found a new, “remarkably efficient” way to generate human stem cells that could provide an alternative to using embryonic stem cells in treating disease, a study said.

The mysteries of bat sex and whale snot and an unusual way to deal with human pain were the focus on Thursday of the annual tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel Prizes.
Ten winners were declared at the ceremony held in Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre, with eight of them on hand to receive their prizes, and the ceremony broadcast on YouTube.