In a significant policy shift, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has agreed to send a group of military officers to Pakistan for training, a decision which could raise eyebrows in India. An......
Encouraged by its growing contacts with Arab and Muslims nations, Israel has announced plans to contest a non-permanent seat in the Security Council for the first time in the history of the United......
India is expected to become the world's most populous nation with 1,628 million people by 2050, outpacing China with 1,437 million, a US-based research institute said on Tuesday.China's population......
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is back in the spotlight over the scandal-tinged oil-for-food program after two e-mail memos dating from 1998 appeared suggesting he may have known about a......
Representatives from 70 countries and the United Nations meet in London this week to discuss the rebuilding of Afghanistan, the second such meeting on the country's future after the Bonn conference......
But for the tsunami, the four Sumatrans whom an Indian coast guard vessel rescued near Great Nicobar's Campbell Bay would have been arrested and thrown into jail. The wrath of wind and wave had......