Israel and Hamas on Monday accepted an Egyptian ceasefire proposal meant to halt a bruising month-long war that has claimed nearly 2,000 lives, raising hopes that the bloodiest round of fighting between the bitter enemies could finally be coming to an end.

At least 24 people were killed and 271 others injured when several underground gas explosions ripped through Taiwan's second-largest city overnight, hurling concrete through the air and blasting long trenches in the streets, authorities said on Friday.

A train bearing the bodies of the people, who died in the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday on their way to the Netherlands. The train on Tuesday pulled into a railway station in Kharkhiv, where Ukrainian ...

India managed to break the deadlock at the stroke of lunch as England reached 173 for five needing another 146 runs from the remaining two sessions to win the second cricket Test here on Monday. The match again hangs in the balance after Ishant Sharma ...

The UN Security Council on Monday called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, even as UN chief Ban Ki-moon met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Qatar in the first leg of his Middle East tour which aims to end the escalating ...

The UN Security Council on Monday called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, even as UN chief Ban Ki-moon met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Qatar in the first leg of his Middle East tour which aims to end the escalating ...

Alexander Kristoff of Norway captured his second stage win of this year's Tour de France by leading a pack that dramatically overtook two breakaway riders with only about 50 meters left in Stage 15 on Sunday. Vincenzo Nibali finished in the main pack to ...

No one among India's top-five batsmen had ever played a Test at Lord's. When opportunity dawned finally, a majority of them scored their twenties and departed, while men like Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly, who earned a place on the honours board ...

As the BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — on Tuesday firmed up plans to set up a New Development Bank (NDB), China is also going forward with pushing a separate Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in coming ...

Tech giants Apple and IBM on Wednesday announced their partnership for creating business apps and cloud services, among others, for iPhones and iPads. The agreement will also allow the New York-based software maker to sell iPhones and iPads with ...

A rush-hour subway train derailed on Tuesday in Moscow, killing 19 people and sending at least 150 others to the hospital, many with serious injuries, Russian emergency officials said. Several cars went off the track in the tunnel after a power surge triggered ...

Nadine Gordimer was first a writer of fiction and a defender of creativity and expression. But as a white South African who hated apartheid's dehumanisation of blacks, she was also a determined political activist in the struggle to end white minority rule in her ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping along the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Brazil will provide the two leaders the opportunity to lay the framework for a new chapter in bilateral ties. With the two leaders known in ...

Pointing out that public private partnership (PPP) has delivered iconic infrastructure like airports and highways, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday maintained a steady focus on PPP in his maiden Budget for 2014-15, announcing a number of ...

The salaried class has reason to cheer the NDA government's first Budget. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has reduced the income tax burden, albeit in a minor way, and put some extra money in the hands of the salaried taxpayer. First, he has increased the ...

The success of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's politics has been in appealing to the material aspirations of India's emergent middle class, while maintaining the core ideology of the Sangh Parivar as a subtext. In the maiden Budget of his government, Finance ...

Berlin stepped up the pressure on Washington on Monday over allegations of spying in Germany by a suspected double agent with Chancellor Angela Merkel describing the claims as serious and a possible breach of trust between the two allies. “If the reports ...

Germany appear to have overcome a flu scare as coach Joachim Loew said all players were available for Friday's World Cup quarterfinal against France. Loew said that the condition of seven players who had a sore throat had not worsened, and all 22 ...

Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov, nicknamed 'Second Federer', caused one if the biggest upsets of Wimbledon 2014 on a day when the real article — Roger — went through to the semifinals as expected but with a minor hiccup. On Centre Court, pitched against a ...

Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov, nicknamed 'Second Federer', caused one if the biggest upsets of Wimbledon 2014 on a day when the real article — Roger — went through to the semifinals as expected but with a minor hiccup. On Centre Court, pitched against a ...