The Indian rupee fell to a fresh record low on Thursday as a sharp increase in petrol prices failed to lift investor sentiment even as it fueled expectations that New Delhi might soon take the more politically fraught step of raising diesel prices.

Fire broke out on Wednesday evening on a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine docked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine, injuring four firefighters, officials said.

The cause of the fire is not

Surging street violence against African migrants, including a rampage that an Israeli broadcaster dubbed a ‘pogrom’, drew empathy for the rioters from the interior minister on Thursday.

Waving Israel

U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs plans to lease 1.6 million square feet of office space in Bangalore, in the country's biggest commercial property deal by size, the Economic Times reported on Thursd

Bharti Airtel, India's biggest mobile phone carrier, said on Thursday it had signed a pact to buy a 49 per cent stake in Qualcomm Inc's fourth-generation (4G) broadband venture in the country for $165

Pakistan is unlikely to re-open supply routes to NATO troops in Afghanistan unless the United States offers a politically acceptable formula in talks on ending a six-month standoff on the issue, a Pak

Andreas and Emilia Karabalis, who are both 80, feared their bank in Greece would collapse, so they withdrew their 80,000 euros savings and stashed it at home for safety.

Days later, the thieves came

Reebok India, owned by Germany's Adidas, lodged a police complaint against two former top executives accusing them of fraud that had led the company to lose Rs 8.7 billion. ($157 million).

The allege

More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on conservative radicals in the country's north, Afghan police and education officials sai

European leaders will explore ways of breathing life into their stricken economies at a summit on Wednesday, but the issue of eurozone bonds and whether they can help alleviate two years of debt turmo