UN summit of least developed nations begins Monday
Old letters show Anglican leader’s ‘liberal stance’ on homosexuality
British police find links to Swedish terrorist attack
Nepal government forms committee to probe plane crash
Obama calls on world to confront scourges of hatred
Jaguar undergoes dental surgery
India gets tips from US’ post 9/11 counter-terror experience
Philippines ferry capsize toll rises to 39
Winehouse sues mom-in-law for selling her love letter
Rajapaksa visits former Tamil Tigers hub Kilinochchi
6.3 quake hits Chile
UN to probe alleged violations in Kenya
Kenya police say situation back to normal
China bans foreign words in local media
No pact on arms cut sans missile defence clause: Russia
UN to send 300 peacekeepers to Syria by May-end
US stocks tumble 2.5 percent on new economic warning
Power-starved Nepal government calls for a dim Diwali
Tory Party to limit British population
Israeli foreign ministry urges force deployment in Gaza
Industrialised countries water down commitment to fight climate change
Irish anti-treaty voters moving ahead in opinion poll
1,000 Europeans still missing in Nepal quake
Russia’s President Medvedev against new ‘iron curtain’
Top Chinese leader vows to fight against corruption
Bharti Airtel is now Nigeria’s second largest telecom operator
At least 42 people injured in W Canada
Twitter now has 100 mn users worldwide
British Hindus protest mercy killing of cow
Asian economic crisis altered political landscape
Jakarta : On most evenings on a leafy street in the Indonesian capital's exclusive Menteng district, a running television set can be seen through the huge bay window of the biggest house on the block.
Eleven die in Nigeria
NATO puts Macedonia’s membership bid on hold
7 killed in bus explosion in Myanmar former capital
Nepal ruling parties take common position on contentious issues
Crude prices fall further with Iran n-deal
Over 60 percent of world’s population are ‘religious’: Study
Neighbours urge Zimbabwe to release poll results
France helped transport munitions to Chadian army
New Nepali govt will take over in three days : PM
Wall Street rallies after Citi’s bailout plan, Obama’s new team
Six Somali civilians die in attack on peacekeepers
Australians spend $51 bn on drinking, smoking and drugs
Door edges open at Myanmar pledging conference
Girl who lived with dead grandmom recovering
I was betrayed, says Nepal’s last king
Six Colombian rebels killed in fighting
Dalai Lama is undisputed leader, Tibetans tell China
UN Security Council extends Iran sanctions mandate
President Rajapaksa’s brother elected new speaker of parliament
Senior US official meets Maoist leader in Nepal
Sri Lanka says ban on LTTE not on the cards
TV commentator Andy Rooney dead
Rajapaksa committed to power sharing, feels Japan
Gambling makes Macau richest place in Asia
British polls: Labour party leader Ed Miliband resigns
Australia wants to engage more with South Asia
Cuba braces for more austerity to face global recession
MiG-29 crashes in Siberia
Russian firefighting plane to help Serbia
Georgia to host NATO air exercise July 9-20
Tbilisi : Georgia will host a multinational military exercise of NATO members under the Partnership for Peace Program (PPP) July 9-20, the Defense Ministry said Friday.
Asean countries, neighbours vow joint efforts on financial crisis
Former Chinese official jailed for corruption
US-Iran standoff hindering West Asia peace: Ansari
Bush signs n-deal law today; 123 to follow ‘at some point’
Syria’s government, opposition adopt joint document but differences remain
Sarkozy to Keep 35-hour Work Week
Chad Wants Refugees Back
I always knew I’d be a star: Nelly Furtado
Work resumes at copper mines in Chile quake zone
USAID complete 50 years of partnership with Morocco
Fourteen Killed In Illegal Fireworks Plants In China
As Beijing parties, London gets a hangover
Top Nepal Maoist leader’s daughter arrested in France
5.4 magnitude earthquake strikes east Congo, no casualties reported
Ryanair to buy 175 Boeing passenger jets
Pentagon unconcerned by Russian subs off U.S. Coast
German city of Jena recovering from unification blues
Estonians and Estonia’s Russians: still two worlds apart
Chris Brown meets domestic violence victims
AU hails Sudanese political leader’s release
2,000-year-old tomb frescos found in east China
Namibia President Calls Raul Castro
Six killed in Colombian military plane crash
After Obama historic win, Hillary Clinton now eyes number two spot?
Hijacked supertanker moors off Somalia as eight pirates escape prison
Iran two years from nuclear bomb: Israel
Two killed, 100 injured in Greek quake
50 separatists, 30 troopers killed in Ukraine clashes
Former Georgian minister gets jail term for graft
Chinese premier talks with Russian president on bilateral ties
Human Rights Watch slams Sri Lanka report
Indian American student hired by presidential hopeful
CPI-M cagey over Talisma’s Kolkata return
Kolkata : Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, who has taken shelter in New Delhi, is missing Kolkata and wishes to return to her "home" soon but West Bengal's ruling communists Sunday remained cagey on the issue and even clarified that Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya had not invited her back.
750,000 people may die in East African famine: UN
Lenin monument vandalised in Russia
Shun Zimbabwe, British premier tells corporates
Myanmar to be named world’s best tourist destination
Sri Lanka revokes foreign journalist’s expulsion order
UN’s Nepal mission cannot be completed by Jan 23
Lake that disappeared in Chile reappears
Santiago : Chile's Lake Tempanos, whose disappearance in May left scientists and residents of the southern region of Magallanes stumped, is again filling with water, the Spanish news agency EFE said.
Russia’s 5G fighter makes first demonstration flight
Russia Doubts Alleged Humanitarian US Op
My partner has a right to live his life: Australian PM
Free Ukrainian reporter: Kremlin body to Syrian rebels
‘Saharan Gandhi’ on hunger strike at Spanish airport
Somali pirates fail to reinforce embattled comrades
Iran ceased n-weapon programme in 2003: US report
Thousands flee volcanic eruption in Indonesia
Need more information to expedite 26/11 trial, says Pakistan
Elliott battled bad throat on stage
News of the World publisher pays phone-hacking victims
Obama and Bill brought ‘enormous intelligence’ to White House: Hillary Clinton
British minister expresses regret to Chakrabarti
Toronto-18 plotted bigger attack than London bombings
Post Quake Epidemics Concern China
Obama condoles Manekshaw’s death
Germans still fascinated by the Baader-Meinhof gang
Troops captured LTTE base, 40 rebels killed: Sri Lanka
Spanish PM Zapatero looks for alliance to form government
Russia expects new Ukrainian president to solve gas dispute
5 soldiers injured in bomb attacks in Thai South
Two dead in floods in Britain
London : Two people died in the western English city of Tewkesbury as they tried to pump floodwater out of a rugby club, fire services personnel reported Thursday.
The two died after they were apparently overcome by fumes produced by the petrol-powered pump.
Further details were not yet known.
Tewkesbury has been beset with severe flooding over several days, leaving as many as 10,000 people without access to fresh water.