The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that 10 cases of infection with wild poliovirus type 1 had been…
The number of Syrians who have fled their war-torn country to neighbouring Lebanon has exceeded 800,000, the latest UN refugee…
The health situation in Syria has been deteriorating due to a shortage of medicines and medical workers, destruction of health…
The Obama administration has turned to a technology company run by Indian-Americans to fix the problem ridden website for Americans…
Thanks to the initiative of bipartisan Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, US lawmakers are set to have their first-ever…
The partial US government shutdown has cut 0.25 percentage point off the fourth-quarter economic growth and cost the country 120,000…
At least 900 bushfire claims have been lodged with the Australian insurers so far, with losses of more than 100…
Over 600,000 Syrian refugees are presently taking shelter in Turkey, the Turkish disaster and emergency management authorities said
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head and neck by the Taliban for advocating girls' education…
Unicef China has launched a mobile application that enables its users to locate breastfeeding rooms in public places in different…
India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of people living in conditions of slavery -- estimated at…
Proceeds of drug trafficking are likely to be used by extremist groups in east and west Africa to band-roll terrorist…
The partial shutdown of the US government has forced the furlough of more than 800,000 federal workers, including 97 percent…
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to US economists Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller.
Beginning on Monday, Syria officially becomes a member of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
The nearly two-week-long US government shutdown has had a marked effect on NASA as most of its employees were laid…
Jordan and the World Bank have signed an agreement for a $10 million grant which is part of an over…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the international community should take action to protect the rights of migrants.