British prime ministers possess a flair for naming their governments’ bilateral ties and David Cameron has chosen to speak of an “enhanced and enduring” relationship with India....more

The Congress sealed its own fate, perhaps, when it decided to ride the choppy Telangana wave last year....more

Washington: In the wake of revelation by WikiLeaks on the war in Afghanistan, the real question is what Pakistan is now doing, US has said. "The real question is: What is Pakistan doing now? We are satisfied with the action, the aggressive action that Pakistan has taken," State Department spokesman P J Crowley said....more

It was Bill Clinton who was the star attraction at the village where Chelsea is getting married...more

London: The personal details of 100 million users of social networking website Facebook are now available for download after they were leaked online....more

Catalonia: It's a practice that has a limited time to run, at least as far as Barcelona is concerned. The Parliament in the Catalan region has voted to ban bullfighting....more

London: You may like to throw your mobile phone after reading this, as a new study has found the average handset carries 18 times more potentially harmful germs than a toilets flush handle....more

London: In a move which may not go down well with many westerners, the Vatican City has banned scantily clad tourists from entering the holy Christian state. ...more

Islamabad: All 152 on board a private Pakistani airline flight from Karachi were killed when the jet crashed amid heavy rain in the thickly wooded Margalla Hills near this Pakistani capital Wednesday morning. ...more

Beijing: Torrential downpour has inundated a northeastern town of China, trapping 30,000 people in flood waters with all communication lines with the area broken. More than 200 rescue workers were dispatched to the flooded Kouqian town in the Jilin province, where more than 30,000 people are trapped in flood waters. ...more