INDIA

Pope Benedict on Saturday elevated 22 prelates to the rank of cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church at a solemn ceremony in St Peter's Basilica. Here are their names.

Given that Pakistan has extensive experience with nuclear weapons technology, is it conceivable that they would offer any assistance with Iran’s embryonic atomic project?

Iranian warships have entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal. It is only the second time since 1979, when a revolution established an Islamic Republic in Iran, that this has happened.

Hague claimed that London has urged the Israelis not to launch such a strike.

The highlights of the event included exemplary collection by maverick designers like James Fererra, Shantanu and Nikhil, Rohit Bal, Manish Malhotra and several others.

Rajini, a two-year-old girl from Shivpuri district in Madhya Pradesh state, India, casts a dark shadow over a rising India, where millions of people have nothing or very less to eat.

Social media has revolutionized the way information is shared, and a new Internet feature is taking it a step further. Twitris, a Web application developed in Ohio, analyzes social media content pertaining to natural disasters, current events and other ongoing national news.

While Indian authorities have launched an investigation into Monday's New Delhi car bombing, and its suspected masterminds, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has continued to embrace trading with the country that is widely suspected of the attacks -- Iran.

Richline International, part of U.S. billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, plans to buy debt-laden jeweler UnoAErre, in a further expansion into Italian jewelery after a string of acquisitions last year.

Both Iran and Hezbollah have denied complicity in all three attacks.

The Airport Council International has announced the list of the top airports in the world.

Kosovo celebrates its fourth anniversary of Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) on Feb. 17. Even after four years of its UDI, the Albanian majority country is still to make any head way towards development or in ensuring stability in the region. The biggest challenge it faces includes its conflict with Serbia, which don't recognize Kosovo's independence and the resistance from several of the European Union countries that oppose its inclusion in the Union.The territorial confl...

The latest fourth quarter 2011 global consumer confidence report by Nielsen has found that India is the most optimistic market in the world.

A majority of external members of the Reserve Bank of India's advisory panel on monetary policy had suggested a cut in the repo rate at the January monetary policy review, minutes released by the central bank showed.

Investors flocked to two Canadian gold mining companies, Kinross Gold and Agnico-Eagle Mines, ignoring mixed earnings reports and driving stock prices up after an announced increase in dividends.

Sahara Group on Thursday returned as the main sponsor of the world's richest cricket body, reversing its earlier decision to end all commercial ties with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). It will continue sponsorship of the Indian team.

India's economy, a paragon of development, has more than tripled over the past 20 years, fueling a growing middle class that has helped turn the world's largest democracy into an engine of the world economy and raised millions out of poverty. It is behind only China, in terms of population. But there is one shocking statistic India's economic miracle has not been able to improve: the number of children that are severely malnourished.

There were a number of new developments in the ongoing Iran-Israel saga.

Worldwide sales of gold last year soared 29 percent to a record high as two groups of investors, each with mutually exclusive views of economic and financial threats, flocked to the yellow metal and related assets.

Thai and Israeli officials believe the Iranians arrested for a series of blasts in Bangkok on Tuesday were plotting at attack Israeli diplomats.

It looks like after Dhanush rocked the world with his recent hit Kolaveri Di, the Kolaveri concert held in Bangalore Feb 12, could not do as well. And also, the organizers of the concert are now in trouble.