Ever since it’s Independence Pakistan seems to be grappling under pressure of various issues, beginning with history and religion, which still needs solutions. And so unfortunate is the factor that the...

Only a collapse in the global demand for oil can save economies from a supply crisis and crude prices reaching more than $200 a barrel, according to a report out today.

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has announced plans for a radical overhaul in the way the country’s bureaucrats are recruited, a move interpreted by some as an implicit challenge to the authority of Vladimir Putin. Launching a scathing...

Austrians are celebrating 100 years since the discovery of a tiny but curvy statuette that dates back 25,000 years.

The world will fail to reach millennium development goals unless India improves its record on health and child protection, a UN report says...

Osama Bin Laden’s former driver has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison at the first US military trial in Guantanamo Bay...

University of Manchester scientists have uncovered the 3D structure of Mps1 - a protein that regulates the number of chromosomes during cell division and thus has an essential role in the prevention of cancer - which will lead to the design of safer and...

India this afternoon withdrew its permission for a North Korean plane to overfly Indian airspace on its way to Iran, just before it could take off from Mandalay in Myanmar where it had made a stopover. This, sources have told The Indian Express, was...

Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows.

World figures have paid tribute to Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a day after his death aged 89...News of the Nobel laureate’s death prompted tributes in Russia and around the world...