Six leading hockey teams of the country are taking part in the First Women's Challenge Cup Hockey Tournament being played here at the National Hockey Stadium from December 30. Teams which have confirmed their participation

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Favourite to clinch the title of the Asian Champions Trophy, which started in Doha (Qatar) on Thursday, the green-shirts recorded a convincing 8-3 victory against Oman in the high scoring match in their first match

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A global day of light-hearted doom-themed celebration and superstitious scare-mongering culminated Friday in the jungle temples built by the Mayan people of Central America, whose calendar sparks fears of apocalypse. December 21 marks the end

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South Sudanese armed forces shot down a United Nations helicopter, killing all four crew members on board, the UN said Friday. The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said an investigation was launched to establish

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The EU on Friday agreed new sanctions against Iran, adding 18 companies or institutions and one person to a blacklist aimed at forcing stalled talks on Tehran's contested nuclear drive to resume. A statement said

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Supporters of President Mohamed Morsi and his opponents hurled rocks at each other in Egypt's second city on the eve of a final vote on an Islamist-influenced constitution that has divided the country. Police fired

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EU leaders played up the positives of a 30th summit with Russia Friday but a combative Russian President Vladimir Putin took them bluntly to task over energy and human rights. EU President Herman Van Rompuy,

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Canada added Iran's Quds Force to a list of terrorist groups on Thursday, saying the elite special operations unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard had been arming the Taliban, Hamas and others. Public Safety Minister

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President Bashar al-Assad's military has fired more Scud-type missiles inside Syria, Nato officials said on Friday, more than a week after the Western alliance first detected such arms being used on rebel targets. "I can

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Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday paid a pre-Christmas visit to British troops serving in Afghanistan, insisting that the "high price" paid by servicemen had been worthwhile, his office said. Cameron told reporters that Afghan

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