The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant started paying 'condolence money' on Tuesday to victims of the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl while it kept pouring radioactive water into th

India has imposed a three-month ban on imports of food articles from the whole of Japan on fears that radiation from an earthquake-hit nuclear plant was spreading to other parts of the country, becomi

Satyam Computer Services Ltd and auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed to pay a combined $17.5 million to settle investigations into an accounting fraud that became India's biggest corporate scandal i

Arkansas students who love their sagging pants should soon leave them at home.

Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe signed a bill on Wednesday that bans students from wearing clothing that exposes "underwear

Nobody has been able to stop Novak Djokovic all year but the Serbian world number two, fresh from his latest triumph, said it is too soon to entertain any talk of him as the world's best.

Djokovic be

Six times, Sergei Belyakov says, he has been through the doorway to hell and back.

The Ukrainian-American was a volunteer ‘jumper’ who helped clean up after the nuclear disaster in the town of Cherno

Elsie Eiler is the most admired person in Monowi, Neb. She is also the smartest, wealthiest, best-looking and youngest.

"And the oldest," she is quick to add.

When you are the only resident of a com

The royal wedding is off! Oh no it's not, it's an April Fools' joke.

The big royal occasion later this month was the top target for traditional April 1 pranks in the press on Friday, including bride-

Japan's prime minister made his first visit to the country's tsunami-devastated region on Saturday as the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear complex said it had found radioactive water leaking

Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi criticised speedster Shaoib Akhtar for abruptly announcing his retirement from the sport midway through the World Cup.

The 35-year-old Shoaib, who has had a rocky inter