Pope Benedict XVI Friday signed a highly anticipated pastoral letter to Catholics in Ireland dealing with a child sex abuse scandal involving priests, the Vatican...

US citizen David Headley has pleaded guilty to finding the targets for the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of...

The BBC has reported that the UN's former envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide, has made strong criticisms of Pakistan's recent arrest of high-ranking Taliban...

Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski have filed an appeal to ask for a special investigation into alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive director's 32-year-old sex...

A man who was convicted of shooting a five-year-old girl in the face has been given a long jail sentence in a court in the US state of...

US President Barack Obama has cancelled forthcoming trips to Indonesia and Australia so he can stay home to oversee controversial healthcare...

In a novel study, Oxford scientists have developed a gel that may soon heal the misery of cleft palates in...

'Hanna Montana' star Miley Cyrus was welcomed by boyfriend Liam Hemsworth's family. He revealed his parents 'loved' his...

The stripper and tattoo model linked to this week's split between Oscar winner Sandra Bullock and her husband posed for pictures in Nazi regalia and had racist symbols inked on her legs, the celebrity website TMZ.com reported...

Japanese scientists have developed a genetically modified mosquito that vaccinates as it bites and could help prevent the spread of...

Socialite Nicole Richie has revealed she is still undecided on her wedding...

French First Lady Carla Bruni's starring role in a Woody Allen movie is under threat, as the legendary director is having second thoughts about casting...

Rapper 50 Cent insists he has no intention of quitting the music industry but admits he will have to change if he wants to continue to be one of the world's biggest...

Troubled English singer Pete Doherty has branded the British prison system a success, insisting jailing criminals stops them...

A British Phd student has discovered a terrifying new species of dinosaur in China, an eight-foot long creature with scythe-like...

Pop star Janet Jackson's struggle with her much-talked about weight problems began at the age of 10 when TV producers asked her to lose weight for a role, she...

Whitney Houston's lawyer has dismissed 'ridiculous' media reports that the singer-actress was heading back to a rehabilitation...

Hollywood actor Robert Pattinson is worried about the fate of his upcoming film 'Remember Me' as it isn't the 'happy romantic drama' audiences may be...

Producer Rob Fusari has filed a $35 million lawsuit against singer Lady Gaga alleging that she dumped him as soon as she became a...

Singer Peter Andre is in the process of completely switching off ex-wife Katie Price with the removal of her name tattooed on his wedding-ring...

Designer Alexander McQueen will be posthumously honoured by the fashion world at an industry event in...

Myanmar's main opposition party decided Friday to sue the military-run government for issuing unfair election laws, opposition sources...

Bangladesh has suspended operations of three private phone operators in less than a week for allegedly running unlicenced phone services, a spokesman of the telecom regulatory body said...

Actress Katherine Heigl faced an embarrassing situation when one of the straps broke on her red dress in the middle of her acceptance speech at an award function in Las...

Liverpool will face Benfica in the quarter-finals of the Europa League following Friday's draw at UEFA headquarters in Nyon while Atletico Madrid take on Primera Liga rivals Valencia in an all-Spanish...

The rich tradition of Islamic embroidery, from Pakistan to Morocco, will be showcased at an exhibition starting April 6 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital, WAM news agency said...

Gurpreet Singh, an Indian American working his final shift as a night clerk at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Kansas City, Missour, was gunned down during a...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Friday left out former captains Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf and Shoaib Malik from the central...

Scottish actor Gerard Butler is to play a foul-mouthed and perverse leprechaun in an upcoming...

Space tourists will be again able to fly on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station in two to three years, Russia's top space official said...

Director Tim Burton is reportedly planning a 3-D version of popular TV horror-comedy 'The Addams...

French and British officials have discussed a nuclear deterrence-sharing scheme but Britain has opposed the idea 'so far' on grounds of political unacceptability, a media report said...

Adam Dell, younger brother of computer tycoon Michael Dell, is the father of supermodel Padma Lakshmi's daughter Krishna, according to...

Spanish actress Penelope Cruz prefers earrings and bracelets to...

Singapore authorities Friday charged an Indian man with the murder this week of a 30-year-old Philippine tourist, a media report...

In a massive crackdown on vice, police in Nepal Friday said they had arrested nearly 150 students from a discotheque here that has been raided in the past too for alleged illegal...

Leaders of the so-called Middle East Quartet of the UN, US, European Union and Russia are meeting in Moscow Friday for talks on the way forward in the impasse on the Israeli/Palestinian...

Disgraced golfer Tiger Woods' alleged mistress Joslyn James has put 122 explicit text messages sent by him on her...

As Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tours China, a debate is brewing in Bangladesh. Who is a greater friend? India or China? The answers...

Men and women with a history of alcohol abuse may not see long-term negative effects on their memory and thinking but female smokers do, a new study...

Researchers have found that cardiac rehabilitation is associated with significantly reduced mortality rates for patients who have had stents placed to treat blockages in coronary...

'Baywatch' star Pamela Anderson says Damian Whitewood is the only man in her life and that he gets her 'undivided...

April 1 bodes to be no laughing matter for Nepal with the fledgling republic heading for a passport disaster as the ruling parties continue to bicker over a bid by an Indian company to print new...

The World Bank has approved two education projects worth $1.05 billion for India, designed to boost the number of children enrolling in and completing elementary school, and to improve the quality of engineering education across the...

After her split with filmmaker husband Sam Mendes, Oscar winning actress Kate Winslet is planning to move to Britain from the...

Actor Alec Baldwin had a feud with a tabloid journalist who alleged he had fallen out with '30 Rock' co-star Tina...

The groundwork has been laid for an 'excellent trade and commercial outcome' of President Barack Obama's expected visit to India later this year, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said...

The US welcomed the release of a naturalised US citizen and democracy activist who had been jailed since September in the Asian...

India has invited US companies to take advantage of its rapid growth and help shape the country into a world-class manufacturing hub with greater investment in its...

Mumbai terror plotter David Coleman Headley's guilty plea on the condition that he be spared the death penalty as well as extradition to India is not as big a setback as it might appear from New Delhi. There is enough sting in his plea agreement to ensure that Headley is available to Indian investigators looking into the larger conspiracy related to the overall planning of the Mumbai...