[caption id="attachment_19861" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Reuters/Reuters - Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai (C) waves with nurses as she is discharged from The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in this handout photograph released on January 4, 2013. REUTERS/Queen Elizabeth Hospital[

Days after its inauguration, one of the biggest Hindu temple in US, built at a colossal cost of USD 100 million and designed to last 1,000 years has become a major draw for its grandeur and architecture. The 68th Swaminarayan temple built near the Hollywood city in Los Angeles has been carved out

More than 60,000 people have died in Syria’s uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending. In the latest violence, dozens were killed in a rebellious Damascus suburb when a government air strike turned

A weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid the economy-threatening “fiscal cliff” of middle-class tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts late Tuesday night hours before financial markets reopened after the New Year’s holiday. The bill’s passage on a 257-167 vote i

Washington, Jan 1, 2013, (PTI) Despite a last minute deal reached between the White House, Democrats and the Republicans brokered by the US Vice President, Joe Biden, the US missed the Monday midnight "fiscal cliff" deadline to avert sweeping tax hikes. While the Senate was moving ahead with its

New York :Two days after she shoved an Indian man to his death onto a subway train track here, a 31-year-old woman has been charged with "hate crime murder" as she admitted before police that she had pushed him because she "hated Hindus and Muslims". Erika Menendez was ordered held without bail a

[caption id="attachment_19138" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Two pilots, a flight engineer and an air stewardess were killed in the crash.[/caption] A Russian passenger plane has crashed into a main road after overshooting a runway at a Moscow airport, killing at least four people, police say.

Vows to continue fight for democracy [caption id="attachment_18837" align="aligncenter" width="475"] Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari (L) widower of assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto, waves with his son and chairman of ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto (R) to suppo

[caption id="attachment_18605" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A fire truck passes a warehouse on fire on Lagos Island in Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. An explosion ripped through a warehouse Wednesday where witnesses say fireworks were stored in Nigeria's largest city, sparking a fi

Beijing: A Chinese man died after his camel turned on him and bit him on his head in a northeast China city. The man surnamed Sun was rushed to a hospital by his co-workers but died despite emergency treatment for three hours. The man raised three camels for his owner in Dalian of China's Liao

Yangon: A Myanmar passenger jet packed with foreign tourists crash-landed and burst into flames on Tuesday in a field in eastern Shan state, killing two people and injuring 11 others, officials said. Black smoke was seen billowing from the charred wreckage of the Air Bagan aircraft, which came do

[caption id="attachment_18094" align="aligncenter" width="550"] A protester holds up a sign as National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, left, speaks during a news conference in response to the Connecticut school shooting on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in Washington. - AP[/captio

[caption id="attachment_18044" align="aligncenter" width="680"] On Friday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called on scientists to work towards the development of more rockets [AFP][/caption] South Korean defence ministry says launch of satellite into space was disguised test of a 10,000km-range 'm

Preliminary results indicate Egypt's voters have approved the contentious draft constitution, amid allegations of fraud. Early results show that Egyptians have approved a new draft constitution after a final round of voting in a referendum, despite opposition criticism of the measure as divis

ISLAMABAD — At least eight people, including a senior provincial minister, were killed and about 18 injured on Saturday when an explosion ripped through a busy neighbourhood in Peshawar. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour was critically injured in the attack and rushed to hosp

Washington, Dec 22, 2012 (IANS): Senator John Kerry, President Barack Obama's choice to replace Hillary Clinton as the next secretary of state, is considered a friend of India who has advocated a "central role" for the country in international affairs. If for Clinton Washington's relationship

Washington, Dec 22, 2012 (PTI) The Obama administration has appointed yet another Indian-American to a key administrative post, naming Smita Singh as member of the president's Global Development Council. "The Council will inform and provide advice to the President and other senior US officials o

Washington: Time magazine yesterday named recently re-elected US President Barack Obama as its person of the year for 2012 — the second time it has accorded him the accolade. Obama now not only has a reelection as America's first black president and a Nobel peace prize under his belt, but he beat