Hindu temples in India are resisting divulging their gold holdings - perhaps nearly half the amount held in Fort Knox - amid mistrust of the motives of ...
Asian markets slumped yesterday as the US government edged towards a shutdown over a budget battle.
President Hassan Rohani said yesterday he would use his visit to the UN this week to present the “true face of Iran” and to pursue talks and co-operation with the West to end Iran’s nuclear dispute.
Reduction in Fed stimulus possible as soon as October; some funds selling ahead of Q3-end; Dubai bucks downtrend but near major chart barrier...
Ramon Magsaysay 2013 awardees, (from left) Nepal’s anti-trafficking organisation Shakti Samuha (Power Group) represented by the organisation’s head Sunita Danuwar.
The areas of the world hit by heatwaves are set to double in size by 2020 and continue to grow in coming decades, as heat-trapping greenhouse gases...
In the weeks since the Rana Plaza collapse killed more than 1,100 workers, at least five different Bangladesh.
AFP/Rio de Janeiro Pope Francis is due in Brazil today on his first foreign trip as pontiff to attend an international youth festival in the world’s biggest Catholic country.
If President Obama has any strategy for a decent exit from Afghanistan, he is certainly keeping it a secret.
In the French city of Amiens, an hour north of Paris, the issue of underage undocumented immigrants has found a temporary solution,
Democrats in the US Senate backed away yesterday from a potentially historic crackdown on filibusters in exchange for a Republican .
The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that lawmakers should be thrown out of office if they are convicted of a serious crime...
