MISURATA, Libya - After four days of public viewing of the slowly decomposing corpses of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, one of his sons and his former defense minister in a Misurata meat locker, the military council in this city said on Tuesday that the three were buried in a predawn funeral at a secre

VAN, Turkey - 24 Oct 2011: As many as 1,000 people were feared killed on Sunday when a powerful earthquake struck Turkey, collapsing dozens of buildings and pulling down phone and power lines in the southeast of the country, officials and witnesses said. Emergency workers battled to rescue people tr

Sirte/Cairo - 20 Oct 2011:Muammar Gaddafiwas killed on Thursday as Libya's new leaders declared they had overrun the last bastion of his long rule, sparking wild celebrations that eight months of war may finally be over.Details of the death near Sirte of the fallen strongman were hazy but it was ann

Kathmandu - 13 Oct 2011 (PTI): At least 40 people were killed on Thursday when a crowded passenger bus skidded off a hilly road and fell intoSunkoshi riverin eastern Nepal.The bus plunged into the river at Ritthebhir area in Jhangajholi village of Sindhuli district, 150 km east of Kathmandu, killing

Kathmandu - 10 Oct 2011 (PTI): A webcam has been installed at the world's highest point to get live view of Mt. Everest to study more accurately the effects of climate change on the tallest peak. The scientists have installed the webcam at Kalapatthar, near the base camp of Mt. Everest, at an altit

Oslo - 02 Oct 2011 (AP): The 2011Nobel Peace Prizewas awarded on Friday toLiberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee andTawakkul Karman of Yemenfor their work on women's rights. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured the three women "for their non-violent struggl

Steve Jobs,the mastermind behindApple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died, Apple said.Jobswas 56. Jobs died "peacefully" surrounded by family members, his family said in a statement. Neither Jobs' family nor Apple revealed where Jobs died or from what cause, though in recent years he had

Tripoli - 02 Oct 2011: Residents trapped in fighting for the Libyan coastal city of Sirte have run out of basic medical supplies and are resorting to drinking contaminated water to survive as conditions deteriorate, a Libyan doctor who was in the city at the weekend said. Dr Siraj Assouri, who

New York - 25 Sep 2011 (PTI): As the global financial crisis deepened, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh today said a fast growing India can help the world economy, around which no protectionist barriers should be erected.Addressing theUN General Assembly, Singh said India wants to quicken the pace of it

New York - 25 Sep 2011: Prime MinisterManmohan Singhon Saturday strongly criticized Western powers for using force to change regimes in other countries, a reference toLibyaamid calls for a similar intervention inSyria, cautioning that societies cannot be re-engineered by outsiders. In a direct criti

United Nations - 23 Sep 2011 (AFP): TheUnited Statesled a mass walkout of theUN General Assemblyon Thursday when Iran's PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejadlaunched an outspoken attack on Western nations.A US diplomat who was in the assembly hall to monitor the speech left halfway through, while the 27Europ

A 20-year-old Nasa satellite the size of a bus is heading for Earth and expected to hit on Friday. Nasa and the US Department of Defense are tracking the 35ft spacecraft, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or (UARS), as it heads towards the planet at five miles per second. Exper

Tokyo - 21 Sep 2011 (AFP): A powerful typhoon smashed into disaster-ravaged Japan on Wednesday, having already killed at least four people, less than a month after a vicious storm left 100 dead.Typhoon Roke, whose maximum speed was recorded at 216 kilometres (130 miles) per hour, made landfall near

Beijing - 20 Sep 2011: India will be infringing on "China's sovereignty and national interest" if ONGC Videsh goes ahead with its plans to exploreoil and gas in the South China Sea, theChinese foreign ministryreiterated on Monday. The Indian company has worked out plans to explore the sea area along

Beijing 15 Sep 2011: China has warnedIndian companies from entering into any deal with Vietnamese firms for exploring oil and gas in disputed parts of the South China Sea. The statement might give a new turn to its relationship with India, which has been asking China not to build infrastructure proj

Kabul - 13 Sep 2011 (AFP): TheTalibanlaunched an attack on the centre of the Afghan capital on Tuesday, hitting Nato's coalition force headquarters next to theUS embassyin Kabul.The insurgent group said the ongoing assault inKabulbegan with a suicide attack targeting local and foreign intelligence i

Paris - 12 Sep 2011: An explosion at the French nuclear site of Marcoule on Monday killed one person and injured four others, media reports said.There is a risk of a radioactive leak after an explosion in an oven at the nuclear site near the city ofNimesin the south ofFrance, emergency services said

Moscow - 07 Sep 2011 (Reuters): A passenger plane carrying a Russian ice hockey team to a season-opening match crashed after takeoff from a provincial airport on Wednesday, leaving 43 people feared dead.The crash of the Yak-42 aircraft, whose passengers included players and coaches of a team that in