At least three people died and several were reported missing when a major fire sabotaged a seven-story government building in Mumbai Thursday.
Afghan forces have freed 18 civilians and two militants after a Taliban attack on a popular lakeside hotel outside Kabul, but the siege continues and more hostages may be held, the city police chief said Friday.
Ecuador is reviewing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's asylum plea, President Rafael Correa said Thursday.
Agents assigned to vice President Joe Biden's security detail were involved in a fight last Thanksgiving while in Nantucket, Mass.
Russia also has a vested interest in maintaining its decades-old relationship with Syria, which is in large part built on weapons and defense contracts.
Arsalan was acused of having received 342 million Pakistani rupees ($3.6 million) from real estate magnate Malik Riaz Hussain in order to influence cases in the court.
Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 PC maker, became the 20th company to withdraw from from the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Washington, D.C.-based group that lobbies for conservative laws in state legislatures.
Jordan has agreed to shelter the pilot, identified as Col. Hassan Hammadeh, while the Syrian government has called him a fugitive from the service, a traitor to his country and to his military honor.
Uruguay's government may begin selling marijuana if a bill proposing the tactic as a means to fight crime passes the legislature
On Thursday evening, Adrian Nastase, the former prime minster of Romania, tried to kill himself as police entered his home to arrest him.
Effective birth control use has led to lower rates of pregnancy and abortion among young women, according to a government report.
Mitt Romney offered few details while articulating his immigration policy during a highly anticipated speech to Latino officials on Thursday.
Uruguay is likely to pass legislation that will allow its government sell marijuana to its citizens.
Prosecutors asked an Oslo court on Thursday to declare Norwegian mass murder Anders Behring Breivik insane.
Japan's gaping trade shortfall with the EU could exacerbate its fiscal woes by worsening its debt situation and subjecting Japanese government bonds to rising yields in the face of mounting market fears and increasing skepticism among U.S investors.
The pro-democracy opposition leader and former political activist is undertaking a major tour of Europe.
Authorities fear that as many as 75 people have drowned, while some 40 people are currently clinging to the upturned hull of the ship as they wait for rescuers.
Uganda has banned 38 nongovernmental organizations for promoting homosexuality and recruiting children.
If he wants to avoid an unprecedented contempt vote before the full House of Representatives, the embattled attorney general must strike a deal with Republicans seeking more documents in an investigation of the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.
Greek officials will present the proposed revisions at a euro zone finance ministers' meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operatives are speeding the flow of automatic weapons, rocket propelled grenades and other arms from southern Turkey to Syrian rebels, according to a recent report. The weapons are paid for by the governments of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces delayed declaring a winner in last weekend's presidential elections.
Shahabuddin is a prominent member the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), who most recently served as textiles minister under Gilani
The United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, a two-day meeting of more than 115 political leaders from around the world, is turning out to be a major bust.
Asia's top buyers of Iranian crude oil have found ways to continue the imports, bypassing the U.S. and European Union sanctions on trade with Tehran, to avoid depending entirely on the Saudi Arabian oil amid unsteady supplies from Libya and Iraq.
The Indian rupee continued its downward slide for the fourth consecutive day Thursday to touch an all-time low of 56.57 against the US dollar.
The millionaires in Asia outnumber their counterparts in North America for the first time while the overall financial wealth of high net worth individuals (HNWI) declined across all regions except the Middle East, according to a new study.
China's manufacturing activity fell in June compared to that in May and continued to contract for the eighth straight month, according to the preliminary HSBC Flash Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) released Thursday.
The U.S. government is expected to formally apply a foreign terrorist label Thursday to three alleged leading figures of the fanatic Nigerian Muslim group Boko Haram, officials said Wednesday evening.
Ron Paul, the libertarian GOP presidential candidate, has admitted that he collects Social Security benefits, despite the fact that he is a huge opponent of the entitlement program and has called it unconstitutional.
