Pakistan's One-day captain, Misbah ul Haq has urged the Pakistan pace battery to lend support to master spinner Saeed Ajmal to fetch described results against India during the three One-day match series later this month.

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Four Afghan policemen were shot dead and three wounded after being poisoned by a colleague in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said. The attack happened in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province and is

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Southeast Asian leaders are expected to lay out a vision for closer co-operation with India on security and the economy at a high-level gathering in New Delhi at a time of tension with China in

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A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Canadian blasted off on Wednesday to the International Space Station (ISS), where the men are to spend half a year in orbit. The Russian-built Soyuz

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The United Nations appealed on Wednesday for $1.5 billion to help save the lives of millions of Syrians suffering a "dramatically deteriorating" humanitarian situation. The twin appeals are for $519.6 million to help 4 million

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Peter Struck, a former German defence minister who shaped the country's deployment in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, died Wednesday aged 69, his family said. The cause of death was

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The daughter of a former military ruler won South Korea's presidential election on Wednesday and will become the country's first female leader, saying she would work to heal a divided society. The 60-year old conservative,

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Well armed pirates who stormed and ransacked an oil tanker off Nigeria have kidnapped five Indian crew members, said a statement Wednesday from the operators of the ship. Medallion Marine, which operates the SP Brussels

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Riot police fired water cannon Wednesday at a protest in New Delhi over the gang-rape of a 23-year-old student who was left fighting for her life as outrage against the brutal attack grew across India.

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Russia's lower house of parliament gave key support Wednesday to a bill banning adoptions by Americans, in a retaliatory move against US rights legislation that has strained relations between the two sides. The so-called Dima

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