Iran will strike back at any location from where attacks against it are mounted, Fars news agency quoted a senior military commander as saying Sunday.

"Any location which is used by the enemy for...

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has stopped Chinese airlines to pay charge on carbon emissions forced by the Europe Union (EU), and neither to hike freights, nor to add other fees...

Former world champion Kimi Raikkonen has rubbished claims made by his critics that he has lost passion for Formula One.

The 2007 world champion seemed less than completely involved in his last year...

The 12th India- European Union (EU) Summit will be held in New Delhi on February 10.

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will lead the Indian delegation, while Herman Van Rompu, President of European...

United Nations Human Rights Envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana has said he has witnessed a positive impact in Myanmar's recent human rights situation, but added that serious challenges still remain and need...

New Zealand cruised to a 141-run victory over Zimbabwe after amassing 372 for 6 at the Cobham Oval here in the second one-day international , and took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.

Opener...

A tiny fighter from UK is recovering in hospital after becoming the youngest person to have open-heart surgery.

Surgeons pieced together Jasmine Carr's heart when she was 17 and a half hours old...

A quarter of Britons have claimed that they have been to ancient Wonders of the World, wiped off the Earth hundreds of years ago.

Over one in eight (13 per cent) said that they have seen the...

China's airlines are not allowed to pay a charge on carbon emissions imposed by the European Union (EU) nor are they allowed to hike freight or add other fees without government permission,...

Pakistan has lost over 8,500 billion rupees in corruption, tax evasion and bad governance during the last four years of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's tenure, Transparency International Pakistan...

Matthew Wade's impressive performance against India in the first One-Day international is putting more pressure on the out of form wicketkeeper Brad Haddin.

He scored a well played half-century...

The European Union may introduce a new package of sanctions against Syria, Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders has said.

"Belgium will actively contribute to this process (preparation and...

Vetoes by Russia and China of a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria condemning President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on his people and calling for him to step down have drawn outrage from...

The human rights situation was improving in Myanmar but serious challenges still remained and needed to be addressed, UN special envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana has said.

Quintana, the UN Special...

Dozens of Syrian protesters stormed the Russian embassy in Libyan capital Tripoli Sunday, a day after Russia and China blocked a UN resolution on the Syrian crisis.

According to witnesses, several...

The Abu Dhabi International Airport Sunday launched an online auction for 60 tickets to 30 destinations.

The initiative, in collaboration with the Etihad Airways, was launched to commemorate the...

A British survey has found one in eight people claiming to have visited ancient wonders of the world that turned non-existent centuries ago!

Of the 2,500 people surveyed by Hotels.com, 13 percent...

Daniele De Rossi has extended his 11-year association with AS Roma by another five years, but he has a way to go to join UEFA.com's list of Europe's longest-serving current...

KASTANIES, Greece -; Greek authorities say they will start work next month on a 10-kilometer (6-mile) fence on the country's border with Turkey to deter waves of illegal immigration. Public...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II accepts a bouquet of flowers from a well wisher at the church of St Peter and St Paul at West Newton, eastern England, Sunday Feb. 5, 2012. The queen braved the cold...

WARSAW, Poland -; Flowers, teddy bears and candles are piling up in a southern Polish park where a mother buried her child and then sparked a nationwide search by falsely claiming she had been...

Pakistani rescue workers look for survivors in the debris of a building that collapsed in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. A three-story factory illegally set up in a residential area of an...

BAGHDAD -; A lawmaker in Iraq's Sunni-backed bloc says the Shiite-led government is seeking to lift his parliamentary immunity, a step which may extend the country's political crisis. ...

In this photo provided by by the Palestinian President's office, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Khaled Mashal, chief of the Islamic militant group Hamas, right, confer with...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -; The deep freeze gripping much of Europe means the Netherlands' almost mythical "Eleven Cities Tour" ice skating marathon could be staged later this month for...

ISLAMABAD -; A spokesman for a Russian mountaineering team seeking to be the first to climb K2 in winter says it has abandoned the attempt after one of its members died on the mountain. The 15...

we presented why when it comes to Syria, the UN Security Council can forget any attempt at ';overhauling'; a regime that is a cornerstone for Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean and...

Elvis Costello , a London native who's been reinventing what it means to be a rock musician since 1970. Spanning punk, new wave, underground rock and even bluegrass, Costello has more than 30...

AMSTERDAM -- Mitsubishi Motors Corp. says it will stop building cars at its Netherlands factory - the company's only plant in Western Europe - at the end of 2012.The decision, announced Monday,...

On Saturday, China and Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria which would have encouraged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power after nearly a year of...

A three-storey building caved in and some seaside cottages were destroyed by waves in La Libertad, Negros Oriental, near the epicentre of the quake 5km off the shore of Tayasan town and at a depth of...

The death toll from the capsizing of a boat that was trying to take 70 migrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico has risen to 18, local press said on...

The murder rate in Salvador de Bahia has more than doubled to 84 in the five days since the police went on strike on Tuesday night, demanding better pay and working conditions, local news reports...

State media on Monday defended China's decision to join Russia in vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria, a move that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called a...

Japan's Mitsubishi Motors said Monday it would stop manufacturing automobiles in Europe by the end of 2012, blaming a difficult operating environment in the debt-hit...

Myanmar's Election Commission on Monday gave opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi the green light to run for parliamentary by-elections, another step toward political openness in a country...

I'm realizing how much I miss the simple wisdom of Rick Perry. Little things like how you know he thought some GOP primaries were called caucuses because they attracted only Caucasians. Or that...

OSLO: The Norway gunman who killed 77 people in twin attacks in July asked an Oslo court on Monday to release him immediately, saying his massacre was a "preventive attack against state...

WARSAW - The toll from Europe's killer cold snap kept climbing Monday with nine new victims found in Poland, most of them homeless, and at least three people died after a Bulgarian dam...

Manama, Feb. 6. (BNA) - In a step to achieve transparency in its operations and processes, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has issued a public consultation on the potential...

The flagship of Russia's polar fleet, The Academic Fyodorov, has begun its journey to the Antarctic. In the past 20 years the ship has sailed to the Arctic and Antarctica 26 times. Now,...

Mass killer Anders Breivik appeared before a Norwegian court today in his last remand hearing before trial. The right-wing extremist who confessed to a bombing and mass shooting that killed 77...

Russian gas supplies to Bulgaria, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Poland and Greece reached normal levels over the weekend and gas deliveries to Romania, Germany and Italy are rising, European Commission...

Mass killer Anders Breivik has appeared before a Norwegian court in his last remand hearing before trial.The right-wing extremist who confessed to a bombing and mass shooting that killed 77 people...

The Fifa World Cup will drive the number of tourist arrivals in Qatar per year to between 1.7 and 3.7 million by 2022, up from 900,000 currently, said a top official. The World Cup would contribute...

Downing Street has condemned as "incomprehensible and inexcusable" the decision of China and Russia to veto a United Nations resolution demanding an end to bloodshed in Syria.The failure of...

Research in Motion is trying to woo developers by giving a free BlackBerry Playbook tablet to coders who port their Android application for its BlackBerry Tablet OS. ...

Downing Street has condemned as "incomprehensible and inexcusable" the decision of China and Russia to veto a United Nations resolution demanding an end to bloodshed in Syria.The failure of...

On the only other occasion that a British queen marked 60 years on the throne, the celebration went to her. It was 1897, and scores of nations from the British Empire, Canada among them, sent their...