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The white short-haired mutt was found dragging his crushed hind legs through rubble-clogged streets after the massive earthquake devastated China's Sichuan province.

NEW DELHI: Accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government of being "obsessed with its vision of becoming a strategic partner of the US", Communist leader Prakash Karat on Friday warned that ignoring ...

Visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said here that the political environment in both Pakistan and India is right to make the peace process between the two countries result-oriented. There ...

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Officials say a 6.7 magnitude earthquake has rumbled off the coast of India's Andaman Islands.

Describing Sam Manekshaw as one of India's greatest soldiers, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said military historians will forever record the strategic brilliance and the inpirational leadership of the Field ...

AKRON, Ohio : Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plans to invest at least $1 billion annually through 2010 to expand and improve plants and will focus more on international growth markets such as China, Russia and ...

A former Taliban fighter has provided a gripping first-hand account of being secretly trained by members of the Pakistani military, paid $500 a month and ordered to kill foreigners in Afghanistan.

More than ever before, authorities waging the global war on drugs are up against real insurgents.

Tech-savvy South Koreans, armed with laptops and cameras, are taking citizen journalism and activism to new heights.

ISLAMABAD: China is keen on joining the $7.5 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project and will send a delegation here for negotiations on the deal, a Pakistan petroleum ministry official said on ...

An initial probe of U.S. allegations that a Syrian site hit by Israeli warplanes was a secretly built nuclear reactor is inconclusive and further checks are necessary, a senior U.N. atomic inspector said ...

The number of Americans who would condone torture, at least when used on terrorists in order to save lives, has risen over the past two years and now stands at over 40 percent, according to a new opinion poll.

North Korea is expected this week to turn over its long-delayed accounting of its nuclear weapons activities, part of a chain of events leading to a unique photo opportunity: the destruction of the cooling ...

Two Chinese air force fighter jets collided Wednesday over the northern Inner Mongolia region and crashed into an inhabited area, state media reported.

Tropical storm Fengshen struck China's southeastern coast today, bringing new torrential downpours to a region reeling from heavy rains and deadly flooding since early June.

Tibet reopened to tourists Wednesday, three months after the Chinese government banned visits by foreigners in the wake of violent anti-government riots and protests.

In this undated photo, Ram Singh Munda, 35, and his daughter feed their pet sloth bear Rani at Gahatagaon village, about 125 miles north of Bhubaneswar, India.

Pandas living in an earthquake-hit part of southwestern China have been evacuated to temporary shelters due to the continuing threat of landslides and other hazards, a forestry bureau report said Tuesday.

Despite falling rain, thousands packed a Chinese square on Tuesday to see the latest leg of the Olympic torch relay.