Emotionally overwhelmed after signing off his Twenty20 international career with the world title, Sri Lankan veteran Kumar Sangakkara said the triumph left him feeling humble about his own abilities and grateful towards the game of cricket. It turned out to be ...

When opposition leader Narendra Modi gave a speech on the virtues of smaller government and privatisation on April 8 last year, supporters called him an ideological heir to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died that day. BJP's PM ...

The chief of Firefox browser maker Mozilla is stepping down in the face of controversy stirred by his support of a California bill to ban gay marriage. Advertisement. Brendan Eich voluntarily surrendered his role as chief executive of Mozilla, a corporation ...

The chief of Firefox browser maker Mozilla is stepping down in the face of controversy stirred by his support of a California bill to ban gay marriage. Advertisement. Brendan Eich voluntarily surrendered his role as chief executive of Mozilla, a corporation ...

The protracted search for missing Flight MH370 was boosted Wednesday with the arrival of a British nuclear submarine in the Indian Ocean, ahead of a visit to Australia by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. The personal jet of Oscar-winning New Zealand ...

For a while now — post the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit to be precise — the climate change story lost its way since most nations have been busy grappling with the economic downturn. Taking advantage of the lull — and a certain level of public ...

The indictment of former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf by a special court has come when civilian rule in the country seems to be striking root and one term of the country's National Assembly, its equivalent of Parliament, has been completed ...

The indictment of former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf by a special court has come when civilian rule in the country seems to be striking root and one term of the country's National Assembly, its equivalent of Parliament, has been completed ...

Sri Lanka tried to claim a moral victory Friday and insisted it would push on with reconciliation efforts after being censured by the UN's top rights body for failing to bring perpetrators of war crimes to justice. The US-initiated resolution was carried at the UN ...

Air pollution killed 7 million people in 2012, causing one in eight of the total deaths globally, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. The new estimate, which includes both outdoor and indoor air pollution, is almost double the earlier WHO ...

Air pollution killed 7 million people in 2012, causing one in eight of the total deaths globally, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. The new estimate, which includes both outdoor and indoor air pollution, is almost double the earlier WHO ...

Air pollution killed 7 million people in 2012, causing one in eight of the total deaths globally, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. The new estimate, which includes both outdoor and indoor air pollution, is almost double the earlier WHO ...

The roof of the under-construction Bangladesh Krira Parishad building overlooking the Sher-e Bangla National Stadium was not the most sought after vantage point by the time West Indies finished their innings. It was overflowing as news of Australia making a ...

The hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 has moved closer to India's east coast, with Kuala Lumpur on Friday requesting New Delhi to deploy assets in the Bay of Bengal to expand the scope of the search operations. In yet another twist to the ...

A 46-year-old US woman is believed to have acquired HIV from her female partner in a rare case of female-to-female sexual transmission of the AIDS virus. Advertisement. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that laboratory ...

Malaysia's military has traced what could have been the jetliner missing for almost five days to an area near Andaman and Nicobar islands, hundreds of miles from its last known position, the country's air force chief said on Wednesday. After a series of at times ...

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Sunday vowed Ukraine would not give "an inch" of its territory to Russia, at a rally of thousands of people in Kiev in honour of 19th-century national hero Taras Shevchenko. "This is our land. We will not give an ...

A man in a smog-ridden northern city has become the first person in China to sue the government for failing to curb air pollution, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday. China's north is suffering a pollution crisis, with the capital Beijing itself shrouded in ...

A leopard that has escaped into Meerut has injured at least seven people, including a police official, and terrified the town. The city is on high alert since late Sunday night after the leopard, who was trapped in a room of the cantonment hospital, escaped ...