Miss Venezuela Stefania Fernandez is on top of the world after winning the coveted crown Miss Universe crown. In the process Stefania Fernandez became the sixth Venezuelan to win the title. What’s more interesting is Stefania was crowned fellow Venezuelan Dayana Mendoza who won the competition in 2008. It is only the second instance in [...]

LONDON — England regained the Ashes with a 197-run win over Australia in the fifth and final Test at the Oval here on Sunday. Victory, achieved with more than a day to spare, saw England take the five-match series 2-1. Australia, set what would have been a record fourth innings victory total of 546, were [...]

Mexico decriminalised small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday — a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government’s gruelling battle against drug traffickers. Prosecutors said the new law sets clear limits that keep Mexico’s corruption-prone police from shaking down casual users and offers addicts free treatment to [...]

A petition was filed in Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Saturday seeking the trial of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for high treason, a news report said. Ali Shah, a senior leader of Pakistan opposition party PML-N, petitioned the apex court to begin a trial for high treason under Article 6 of the Constitution against the [...]

A 12-year-old boy, who suffered 70 per cent burns in Thursday’s school bus fire in Mumbai , died on Saturday. He was on the ventilator. Twenty five students of CTK High School in Mumbai’s suburb Panvel were injured on Thursday when the school bus they were traveling in caught fire. There were 40 children onboard [...]

For only the second time in its history, Afghanistan voted for a new president. There were reports of sporadic violence and voter turnout has been low, though polling was extended for another hour. President Hamid Karzai is standing to win another term, but this time it’s going to be even more difficult. Defying threats, the [...]

A wave of attacks across Baghdad killed at least 95 people on Wednesday in the worst day of carnage to hit the Iraqi capital in 18 months and the bloodiest since US troops pulled out of the conflict-torn nation’s cities. An interior ministry official said 563 people were also wounded in attacks that included two [...]

Worrying about the health of his nation has hit US President Barack Obama’s popularity hard; his ratings have fallen by almost half because his big election promise to make health care more affordable has got stuck in bitter politics. There are so many vested interests in the American health system as billions of profits are [...]

There is violence in Kabul ahead of elections in Afghanistan. A rocket struck the presidential palace in Kabul and a second hit the Afghan capital’s police headquarters on Tuesday, a police source said. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was inside the campus at the time of the attack. These attacks come just two days before the [...]

On Tuesday Railway property worth 3.5 crores turned to dust within hours. The reason: About 50 students from rural colleges of Bihar. They had boarded the New Delhi-Rajgir Shramjeevi Express. Students with passes are allowed to travel in unreserved coaches of long-distance trains. One student, however, entered an AC coach and refused to budge He [...]

Indian markets continued to remain under pressure as intense profit booking was seen in high beta stocks in realty, metals and auto space. Correction in global markets on concerns of economic recovery, sharp fall in Chinese markets and drought situation back home hurt market sentiments. At 12:45 pm, Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex was at 14983.33, [...]

The rupee fell 0.7% 48.585 per dollar as of 9:52 a.m. It earlier touched 48.635, the weakest level since July 20 Rupee declined to a four-week low as disappointing economic data from US and Japan deterred investment in domestic shares. The rupee fell 0.7% 48.585 per dollar as of 9:52 a.m. It earlier touched 48.635, [...]

Forty-one women and children have died after a fire broke out in a tent at a wedding near Kuwait City. Guests were trampled in the stampede towards the only exit, as the tent was razed in just three minutes, a fire department chief told AP news agency. Six of the dead were children. Up to [...]

Seven people have been killed and eight injured in an explosion in Shabqadar, a northwestern Pakistani town near Peshawar. Those killed include women and children. The injured have been moved to Civil Hospital. Pakistan media reports said explosives had been planted in a car parked near a petrol pump. Security has been put on high [...]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said that there was credible information that terrorist groups based in Pakistan were planning to carry out fresh attacks in India. He advocated the need for utmost vigilance. “There is credible information of ongoing plans of terrorist groups in Pakistan to carry out fresh attacks,” the Prime Minister said [...]

Afghanistan has enacted a new legislation empowering men of Shia sect of Islam to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands’ sexual demands, a media report said on Saturday. The new final draft of the legislation also grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers, and requires [...]

A school bus with 35 students of Saraswati Shishu Mandir of Sardarpura in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh fell in a gorge on Sunday. The students were on the way to Mandupur for a picnic. One 18-year-old student and two teachers died on the spot. Rescue operations have begun and the police have reached the [...]

US Senator Jim Webb met with Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday, the first foreign official allowed to see her since she was sentenced to 18 months of detention by the ruling junta, witnesses said. The 64-year-old Nobel Peace laureate was driven from her residence to a nearby government guest house for [...]