THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOBART, Australia -- Officials rushed Sunday to reach about 80 whales stranded on a remote coast in southern Australia. The group was spotted from the air on Saturday on a roc...

Twelve countries will be represented at the inaugural Muhr Asia Africa competition at this year's Dubai International Film Festival (Diff). The event, which was introduced to encourage filmmaking in e...

French search divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Airbus plane that crashed in the Mediterranean killing all seven people on board. The black box was to be dried out in Paris be...

MUMBAI : Mumbai took its first steps towards recovery Sunday after the trauma of a 60-hour militant assault that cost the lives of nearly 200 and left blackened scars on the face of India's financial ...

HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA: TV political pundit Chris Matthews may be considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2010, a Pennsylvania Democratic party leader says. The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reporte...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Mayor Greg Ballard and his economic team are on the way to Japan and China. During the 10 day trip, the mayor hopes to drum up investment and trade opportunities for Indianapolis...

This is Moshe Holtzberg, the orphan of the Mumbai massacre. He is the son of the rabbi at the city's Jewish centre. Both his parents were murdered by terrorists last week, and he owes his life to his ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Saturday to discuss the fallout of the coordinated terrorist strikes ...

Mumbai, India, Wednesday night. A city of 18 million people, and a lot of visitors. In the hotel district, business people and tourists are drinking, eating, window-shopping and walking. Thousands are...

CARACAS (VENEZUELA): Venezuelan and Russian military officials have signed an agreement to launch joint naval operations this week on the United States' doorstep, in the first such move since the e...

Anti-government protesters ignored police calls for them to leave Bangkok airport yesterday as more than 3,000 Britons were still unable to fly home

Pakistan has expressed concern about rising tensions with India following allegations that gunmen who attacked Mumbai this week had Pakistani links. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari offered full ...

ITAJAI: Rescue workers have pulled nine more bodies from beneath mud and rubble in Brazil's flood-ravaged southern state of Santa Catarina, bringing the death toll to 109, the state civil defense d...

BANGKOK: A grenade attack on protesters occupying the Thai premier's office wounded at least 46 people on Saturday, further raising tensions as police tried to end an opposition blockade of Bangkok...

ROME: Defying the economic downturn, an Italian white truffle weighing just over 1 kg (2.2 lb) sold at an international auction on Saturday for $200,000. The prized tuber went for the second yea...

A grenade explosion has injured at least 11 people inside the opposition-occupied government house in the Thai capital Bangkok. The blast came as the authorities were trying to end a blockade of Bang...

BANGKOK : A grenade attack on anti-government protesters who have occupied the Thai prime minister's office in Bangkok for several months wounded at least 46 people early Sunday, emergency services sa...

A stranded Western tourist sleeps on chairs Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008, at Bangkok, Thailand's Suvarnabhumi airport following a takeover of the facility by the People's Alliance for Democracy. Tourism o...

The government, though noting the lack of proof of any link, says it will investigate any evidence of involvement by Pakistani 'non-state actors.' The death toll rises to 195, including six Americans.

A diver nears the hull remains of the so-called "Black Rock Wreck" off East Caicos. Researchers have found the remains of the Spanish slave ship Trouvadore that wrecked in the Caribbean 167 years ago....