LONDON: Defending Finmeccanica SpA's jailed ex-chief executive officer Giuseppe Orsi, Italy's three-time former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi today said bribes are a necessary part of...

NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in the next one year, a senior Afghan Parliamentarian today asserted that the...

MALE: Upping the ante, Maldives has accused India of undermining its democratic institutions and said it was "unfortunate" that New Delhi decided to publicly comment...

WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta today said the daring operation to kill Osama bin Laden at his Abbottabad safe house in Pakistan was...

KOLKATA: Causing discomfort to the Mamata Banerjee government for a minister's alleged move to shield a TMC councilor in the killing of a police officer...

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has denied his request for a visit though he had once played a...

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius was arrested early Thursday for allegedly shooting dead his girlfriend after mistaking her for an intruder, media...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama today announced to bring 34,000 American troops back home from war-torn Afghanistan in the next one year as he warned...

NEW DELHI: Grappling with yet another scandal involving bribery in the acquisition of expensive helicopters for use by VVIPs, the government today promised that the...