US Army Chief designate General Martin Dempsey has warned Iran to avoid making a 'serious miscalculation' in pursuing nuclear weapons or sponsoring attacks in Iraq.

General Dempsey pledged at a confi

Members of the Indian cricket team skipped a reception that was to be hosted by Indian High Commissioner Nalin Surie on July 18 to attend a fund raising event for the Sakshi Foundation, which is run b

Suggesting that counter-terrorism could dominate his bilateral talks with Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Wednesday said that India visualised a

A Dubai court has fined a British woman for insulting Islam after she accused her Muslim co-worker of being ‘a fan of Osama bin-Laden’ on Facebook.

The 31-year-old landed in court on charges of calli

Somalia’s extremist Islam fighters have banned samosas after ruling that the popular snacks are too ‘Western’.

The Al-Shabaab group last week used vehicles mounted with loudspeakers to announce the b

A man killed six of his daughters on suspicion that two of them had relations with boys in the neighbourhood.

Arif Mubashir called his teenage daughters to his room and shot them one by one, while t

Virginia Police are looking for a suspected ‘serial butt slasher’ after a spate of brazen attacks on young women in shopping stores.

In the most recent attack, an 18-year-old woman was slashed throug

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday indirectly hinted that his team's famed batting line-up could have put in a better performance in the first of four Tests against England at Lord's to wre

The Norwegian behind last Friday’s Oslo massacre listened to film music from the Lord of the Rings on his iPod to drown out the screams of his victims, it has emerged.

In Anders Breivik’s 1,500-page

An Oslo court has extended the detention of the Norwegian terrorist, who killed over 90 people in two recent attacks, for an additional eight weeks.

Anders Behring Breivik, the 32-year-old Norwegian,