Paris, July 26: French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Monday that Fra-nce would avenge the murder of a 78-year-old aid wo-rker who was kidnapped and killed in the Sahara desert by Al Qaeda’s North

Bangladesh’s microcredit pioneer and Nobel Peace laureate Mohammed Yunus is set to star in a special episode of hit American TV series The Simpsons, his office said on Monday.

The US military’s top officer flies to Iraq on Tuesday to review plans for a troop withdrawal and efforts to form a new governing coalition, amid fresh violence targeting civilians.

Mumbai, July 27: India's central bank hiked its main interest rates on Tuesday for the fourth time this year, raising the repo rate by 25 basis points and the reverse repo rate by 50 basis points, a s

Frankfurt, July 27: Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, posted on Tuesday a second-quarter net profit of 1.2 billion euros (1.56 billion dollars), up from 1.1 billion in the same period a year earl

Frankfurt, July 27: German professional software giant SAP posted on Tuesday a 15 percent jump in second quarter net profit to 491 million euros (638 million dollars).

Sales of software and related s

Los Angeles, July 26: Mardy Fish, who is fresh off his second consecutive title in as many weeks, pulled out of the ATP Farmers Classic tournament on Monday night.

Tournament officials said the eight

Los Angeles, July 26: Latvia's Ernests Gulbis returned from an injury layoff Monday to defeat Lukas Lacko 7-5, 7-5 in the opening round of the 619,000 dollar ATP Farmers Classic event.

Gulbis, who tu

London, July 26: BP chief executive Tony Hayward will walk away from the crisis-stricken British oil giant with a payoff of up to 18.5 million dollars, media reported Monday ahead of Hayward's departu

A rocket attack on a village in southern Afghanistan killed at least 45 civilians, a spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai told AFP on Monday.