Jordan's ministry of religious affairs on Saturday urged citizens to gather next week and hold special prayers for rain across the parched kingdom.

Seoul, Nov. 26: North Korea, after its artillery attack on the South this week, warned on Friday that plans for a US-South Korean naval exercise bring the peninsula “closer to the brink of war”.

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Hyderabad, Nov. 26: Hyderabad skater Anup Kumar Yama contributed two bronze medals to India’s medal tally at the Asian Games on Friday as he bagged one in the men’s singles free skating before combini

Nov. 25: North Korea's key ally China said on Thursday it opposed US-South Korea war games to be staged after Pyongyang's deadly artillery barrage, as Premier Wen Jiabao warned against “provocative” a

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South Korea named a presidential security aide and former career soldier as its new defence minister on Friday after the previous minister quit over North Korea's deadly artillery bombardment.

The Chilean company behind the mine from which 33 miners were rescued on October, following its collapse, has agreed to sell its assets within 15 months to avoid bankruptcy, a court has said.

Seoul: North Korea appears to have staged an artillery firing exercise in the Yellow Sea on Friday, a Seoul defence ministry spokesman said, three days after the North's deadly shelling hit a South Ko

A Russian cosmonaut and two Nasa astronauts came safely back to Earth from the International Space Station in a Soyuz capsule Friday, Russian Mission Control said.

New files about to be dumped onto the Internet by WikiLeaks contain embarrassing diplomatic cables that could harm Moscow's relations with Washington, the Kommersant newspaper reported Friday.