Quirky musical comedy Glee and 1960s advertising drama series Mad Men led the nominations on Thursday for primetime Emmy Awards in a cross section of new faces and old TV favourites.

China executed on Wednesday the disgraced former chief justice of the country’s most populous metropolis, Cho-ngqing, a sentence meted out as part of a crackdown on organised crime laun-ched by the ci

Iran’s first nuclear power plant is set to be launched by late September now that an important final test has been carried out at the reactor, the head of the Islamic state’s Atomic Energy Organisatio

July 8: Food inflation eased, but fuel inflation accelerated in late June and a recent hike in fuel prices kept the case for the Reserve Bank to top up its last Friday’s rate hike when it reviews poli

July 8: Renault-Nissan Alliance and Bajaj Auto on Thursday signed an agreement to manufacture an ultra low-cost car to be sold in India and other emerging markets. Renault-Nissan said they would laun

July 8: The International Monetary Fund upgraded its 2010 global growth forecast on Thursday, citing robust expansion in Asia and renewed US private demand, but warned the euro area’s debt crisis pose

A London arts centre is compiling an archive of poetry and phrases in the city’s historic Cockney dialect as a study shows the accent is being driven out of the capital by the multicultural “Jafaican”

The police hunting suspected gunman Raoul Moat said the net was closing in on him as officers imposed an exclusion zone around the village of Rothbury in Northumberland.

An Egyptian bus driver working for a private construction company shot dead six labourers on Tuesday and injured as many as 12 others in a suburb of Cairo, the official MENA news agency reported.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday hundreds of posts on his Facebook page had helped persuade him to reverse his suspension of the national football team from international competitions.