Seoul: North Korea said its nuclear test today was only a "first" step and warned of stronger action if it was faced with tougher sanctions as a result. "The latest nuclear test was only the first action, with which we exercised as much self-restraint as possible," the foreign ministry said i

United Nations: The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned North Korea's third nuclear test on Tuesday and vowed to take action against Pyongyang for an act that all major world powers, including traditional ally China, have denounced. "The members of the Security Council strongly

Washington: The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden broke his silence Monday, recounting the night he shot the Al Qaeda leader three times and the financial anxiety he now faces as an unemployed civilian. The commando kept his identity secret in the Esquire magazine interview, but revealed his r

London: An asteroid due to whizz past the Earth this week could take out vital telecommunications satellites, scientists warn. They are sure there is no chance of the 45.7 metre wide space rock hitting the planet. However, there is a remote possibility that it could collide with one of more th

Boston/ New York: The US Northeast started digging itself out of a blizzard that dumped up to 40 inches of snow with hurricane force winds, killing at least nine people and leaving about half a million customers without power. Airports slowly cranked back to life on Sunday, rare travel bans i

Cairo: A Cairo court has ordered that the website YouTube be banned in Egypt for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world. Judge Hassouna Tawfiq ordered the government on Saturday to block YouTube because it carries the amateur film produced by an Egyptian i

BOSTON: A massive storm packing hurricane-force winds and blizzard conditions is sweeping through the Northeast, dumping nearly 2 feet of snow on New England and knocking out power to more than a half a million customers. More than 23 inches of snow had fallen in parts of central Connecticut by ear

Investors may have to pay a whopping SR 2 million for a square meter of land in the central zone around Makkah by the end of 2013, said chairman of the real estate committee at the Makkah Chamber of Commerce and Industry Mansour Abu Rayash. Prices ranged between SR 500,000 and SR 1.5 million in 201

BOSTON/NEW YORK: A blizzard slammed into the northeastern United States on Friday, snarling traffic,  disrupting thousands of flights and prompting five governors to declare states of emergency in the face of a fearsome snowstorm. The storm caused a massive traffic pile-up in southern Maine.

  BOSTON: A blizzard of potentially historic proportions threatened to strike the northeast with a vengeance on Friday, with up to 2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow forecast along the densely populated corridor from the New York City area to Boston and beyond. Halfway through what was looking l

On October 3, 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law “Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008,” a law that made it a federal crime to recruit or use soldiers under the age of 15. The law also gave the United States authority to “prosecute, deport or deny entry to individuals who have knowingly

London:"I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated," Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, has said in a recorded message. The 15-year-old was shot by a Taliban assassin as she took a bus h

Facebook users mock move, saying monkey had mole removed by a doctor in space [caption id="attachment_24819" align="aligncenter" width="475"] This combination of two photos obtained from the Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, shows, left, an Iranian technician holding a monkey that Iran claims r

Major food retailers and suppliers being called for a meeting on Monday London: Britain’s Ministry of Justice says it has suspended a company supplying meat to prisons after tests found that it may have provided food described as halal that contained traces of pork. The ministry said on Friday tha

CAIRO — Egypt’s main opposition group on Saturday backed calls to oust President Mohamed Mursi and demanded he go on trial after deadly clashes left the Islamist leader scrambling to contain fallout from footage of police brutality. The opposition National Salvation Front demanded Mursi be prosec

[caption id="attachment_24757" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Aljazeera - Iran unveils 'domestically-built fighter jet'[/caption] Iran has unveiled its newest combat jet, a domestically manufactured fighter-bomber that military officials claim can evade radar. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sai

Istanbul: A suicide bomber attacked the US Embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Friday, detonating himself inside a security entrance to the compound in a blast that officials said killed a Turkish guard and wounded a visiting Turkish journalist. The State Department immediately warned Ame

London:Urdu has been revealed as the fourth most spoken language in the United Kingdom after English and Polish, according to 2011 census data released by the Office of National Statistics. Polish is now the main language spoken in England and Wales after English and Welsh, followed by the south Asi