A judge in a US state has apologised after forwarding an email to friends that contained a joke deemed racist and involved President Barack Obama's mother.

According to local media, the Montana state

Noting that the global recovery had suffered a setback, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised India and other emerging economies with high inflation and public debt to take a cautious stan

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale hit near the east coast of Japan's Honshu island Wednesday, the Hong Kong Observatory said.

The epicentre of the temblor that struck at 2.33 GMT was i

The Department of Space (DoS) has declined to provide key documents sought by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair to know the basis on which the government debar

Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has requested the opposition leaders to refrain from using 'dirty devices' during the upcoming election.

"We know that some are prepar

Two fishermen were killed, two injured and three missing after a ship collided with a fishing boat on Wednesday past midnight off the Kerala coast, a minister said.

State Fisheries Minister K. Babu s

India is making steps in the right direction to impose sanctions on Iran but not enough progress has been made in persuading China to do so, according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

"With res

The US economy grew at a 3 per cent annual rate in the last three months of 2011, faster than the 2.8 per cent initially thought, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday.

The second of the departme

Amid a national spike in gas prices, the White House has once again argued that there is little it can do to halt the trend with external factors like growth in China, India, and other emerging econom

Avant garde art, traditionally known to set aesthetic trends away from the commercial drill, is reinventing itself as cutting edge contemporary art with a tilt towards market forces in post-globalised