India's Congress party bolstered a recent string of electoral wins by sweeping a key farm state, but late results on Sunday showed it behind its chief rival in two other states that went to the

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Lebanon's Interior Ministry said on Sunday it had banned protests on Monday to avoid trouble on a day when opponents of the Syrian-backed government had called a demonstration and one-day national strike. A statement from

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Stars were set to strut their stuff on the Oscars' red carpet with the world watching on Sunday, as Clint Eastwood braced to see if his "Million Dollar Baby" would knock out Martin Scorsese's "The

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Thousands demonstrated in Belfast Sunday for the prosecution of murderers of a Northern Irishman stabbed and beaten to death in a bar, apparently by members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Families in a Roman

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More than 84 percent of Tajikistan's 3.1 registered voters cast ballots in Sunday's legislative elections likely to be dominated by the ruling party of President Emomali Rakhmonov in the Central Asian country scarred by civil

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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Sunday there would be no progress in the peace process until the Palestinians crack down on armed factions, as defence chiefs threatened to resume military action against the movement

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Iran and Russia on Sunday signed a landmark nuclear fuel accord that paves the way for the firing up of the country's first atomic power station, a project the United States alleges is part of

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"Jack Straw, the poodle's poodle has said..." "That he can eat no fat and his wife can eat no lean." "Where did that come from?" "Isn't that the nursery rhyme?" "Yes. And by fat if

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As Japan produces fewer children and more retirees, toymakers are designing new dolls designed not for the young but for the lonely elderly - companions which can sleep next to them and offer caring words

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"It was a war that was undertaken on false assumptions, perhaps on false claims," said Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to the Carter administration of the United States. This may seem a long-established view

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