JERUSALEM - Israel has slammed the peace accord between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah to form a new unity government in the West Bank and Gaza, saying that peace and Hamas "do not go...

BEIRUT - At least 21 civilians and four soldiers were reported killed Tuesday in an escalated violence across Syria with government forces renewing their assault on Homs, while visiting Russian...

MANILA - At least 48 people have been killed and scores are missing in the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the heavily populated island provinces of Negros and Cebu in the central Philippines...

Maldives - President Mohamed Nasheed, Maldives' first democratically elected head of state, resigned Tuesday after weeks of public protests over his order to arrest a senior judge Abdulla Mohamed,...

Sustainable social development is impossible without a competent state, while genuine democracy is a fundamental condition for developing a state designed to serve public interests.

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WASHINGTON - The US has partially waived off sanctions against Myanmar following a series of political reforms in the formerly military ruled South East Asian nation.

The waiver was signed by US...

Shaun Marsh has said he is hoping to make a comeback by following a simple plan - clearing his head of demons and attacking the ball at every opportunity.

"I just went out there with a clear mind...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed "strong hope" that a shift in power in the Maldives will help quell the violence and tensions the island country has experienced of late, said a UN...

The United Nations refugee agency has deployed staff to assist some 20,000 people who have been forced to flee fighting between Government troops and rebel Tuareg groups in Mali.

Most of those...

The United Nations refugee agency reported today that it has embarked on the implementation of a set of strategies to conclude three of Africa's long-standing refugee crises that involved helping...

An independent United Nations expert on indigenous rights called today on the Government of Panama and the country's indigenous groups to establish a dialogue process to stop the recent tensions and...

The Obama administration is urging a group of Iranian dissidents living in northeastern Iraq to make a decision about moving to a new transit center near Baghdad as part of a U.N.-backed process of...

An international campaigner for democracy in Syria on Tuesday accused the West of being hasty in calling for a regime change in turmoil-stricken Syria.

Ribal Al-Assad, the founder and director of...

India opener Virender Sehwag said Tuesday the team will be rotating opening batsmen and in Wednesday's second ODI against Sri Lanka he would be replacing Sachin Tendulkar or Gautam Gambhir. Sehwag...

Mohammad Waheed Hassan, who was sworn in president Tuesday after Mohamed Nasheed quit following street protests, is an educationist who has served in the UN and is the country's first TV anchor. He...

Tamara Ecclestone looked stunning in a black dress as she walked the red carpet at the Laureus World Sports Awards in London.

The Formula One heiress wore a long black body con gown, which showed...

Easterners really do look at the world differently to Westerners, researchers say.

Cultural differences between the West and East are well documented, but a new study revealed that concrete...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Pakistan's economy is at a vulnerable stage.

Insisting that Pakistan's economy is in a bad state as far as both internal and external shocks...

"I dare to dream about becoming the best player. Now I have this special award and I think everything is possible," said Serbian tennis giant Novak Djokovic, who has been named the Laureus World...

Italian football giants AC Milan will see their striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic sidelined in the clash against league leaders Juventus Feb 25 as the Swedish international has been handed a three-match...

Despite freezing weather, many fans waited and shouted alongside the red carpet as winners of the 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards were unveiled here Monday.

Serbian tennis giant Novak Djokovic and...

Spanish La Liga football club Sevilla has sacked coach Marcelino Garcia after the team's poor run which has seen them slip from contenders for a place in Europe to a struggling outfit in the...

Sachin Tendulkar's aim to score his hundredth international ton may have to wait as he may be rested for the upcoming one-day international match against Sri Lanka in Perth.

The move comes as a part...

Former Indian cricket captain and commentator Sourav Ganguly believes that Australia have done well to blood Tasmania-born Victoria wicketkeeper Mathew Wade in international cricket.

"Genuine...

Pakistan skipper Misbahul Haq has said his team's impressive victory over England sends a strong message to the cricketing world that Pakistan is a power in the sport and should no longer be...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has scaled down its forecast for China's 2012 economic growth from nine percent to 8.25 percent and warned that exports would be a significant drag on expansion...

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf has said the team needs a qualified head coach to win the World Cup.

Although he praised Mohsin Khan's as a coach, Ashraf said: "No doubt the team...

Pakistan has narrowed the gap with the top four sides in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test Championship table after beating the world number-one team, England by 3-0 in the three-Test...

Europe continues to battle the intense cold and heavy snowfall and it is expected that the weather will stay the same till the end of the week.

According to the web site accuweather.com, as of...

World No 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic was crowned the world sportsman of the year at the Laureus Awards in London.

He has won the Australian Open this year and ended the season with a 70-6 winning...

Former Australian captain Steve Waugh has backed masterblaster Sachin Tendulkar to break the 'Don Bradman jinx' and score his hundredth international ton.

He said Tendulkar's failure to score his...

Pakistan has assured Iran that it would implement, on a fast track basis, multi-billion-dollar gas and electricity import projects, despite international sanctions and concerns over the latter's...

It may come as a rude shock, but Facebook users should not feel surprised if tomorrow they come across their photos existing in the web world despite having deleted them personally long ago.

The...

At least one in 10 football players in Russia, which would host the world cup in 2018, has been approached at some point of time to fix a match, the FIFPro international players' association has...

With Russia and China blocking a U.N. resolution condemning the crackdown on protests in Syria, the prospects for a quick end to the conflict seem bleak. President Bashar al-Assad can also rely on...

REPORTING FROM NEW DELHI -- The Maldives'; first democratically elected president resigned Tuesday after weeks of protest over his decision to sack a judge he had accused of favoring the opposition....

World Trade Center is ';dysfunctional'; and has let costs get out of control on the $14.8 billion project, auditors said Tuesday.The projected cost of the complex has risen $3.8 billion...

Australian and European scientists say they believe ancient seagrass growing on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea may be the oldest living organism on the planet. The researchers say...

The current cold spell that has paralyzed much of Europe and reportedly killed almost 300 people over the past week should start to ease slowly from next week, a senior official at the United Nations...

HILLTOP Hoods, Kaiser Chiefs and US rockers Mutemath are among the bands headed to Townsville's Groovin' The Moo festival. Canadian acoustic stars City and Colour and the Swedish...

In this Feb. 3, 2012 photo, a welder works on steel pipe at the World Trade Center transportation hub construction site, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) -...

SYDNEY -; Australia's Qantas Airways says it has temporarily grounded one of its A380 superjumbos after discovering dozens of hairline cracks in its wings. Qantas insisted Wednesday that the...

Pro-Syrian regime supporters wave Syrian and Russian flags as they cheer a convoy believed to be transporting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012....

DAKAR, Senegal -; The aging president of Senegal tried to divert attention from growing street protests calling for his resignation and prove that he still had grassroots support by leading an...

CAIRO -; Egypt's ruling generals are playing a risky game of brinksmanship by cracking down on American nonprofit groups that promote democracy, threatening a relationship with Washington that...

Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a psychologist who for a decade ran a U.S. treatment center for abusive priests, talks to the media at a press conference during a Vatican-backed symposium on clerical sex...

In this Feb. 19, 2010 photo released by the British Ministry of Defense, MOD, shows Florence Green, left, on her 109th birthday being presented with a birthday cake by LAC Hannah Shaw on behalf of...

The shop will reportedly showcase digital books as well as ink-and-paper editions printed by Amazon's publishing arm. (File Getty ) Online retail titan Amazon will open its first real-world...