Najib Razak, Malaysian Prime Minister said he was shocked by the news of the Malaysian Airlines crash in a tweet. "I am shocked by reports that an MH plane crashed. We are launching an immediate investigation," Razak said. 9.37 pm: Aware of situation, ...

The truly groundbreaking achievement in the formal launch of the BRICS Bank with a $100 billion corpus is not that five emerging economies have finally managed to create an alternative to the West-centric World Bank. The real achievement is that the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England voted on Monday to allow women to become bishops, a historic decision which overturns centuries of tradition in a Church that has been deeply divided over the issue. Two years ago, a similar proposal failed ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England voted on Monday to allow women to become bishops, a historic decision which overturns centuries of tradition in a Church that has been deeply divided over the issue. Two years ago, a similar proposal failed ...

seaside city of Brazil, meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of tomorrow's BRICS Summit at which India will press for equal shareholding for its five member countries in the proposed USD 50 billion BRICS ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's main Sunni political coalition chose lawmaker Salim al-Jabouri on Saturday night as its nominee for parliament speaker, a senior Sunni politician said. "We have agreed on Salim Jabouri for the post of parliament speaker," said ...

Havana, July 12 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is undertaking an official day-long visit to Cuba, met Friday the country's retired leader Fidel Castro. Putin and Castro, 87, talked for nearly an hour about international affairs and the global ...

Our politicians have had their say on Arun Jaitley's maiden budget effort. But what do the thinking types, economists and experts, among them,have to say about it? Here's a summary. A deep disappointment. Writing in the Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, ...

At the outset, Arun Jaitley's first budget has nothing much to be happy about for economists. The finance minister retained the fiscal deficit target set by his predecessor, which is worrying because it raises questions about the quality of fiscal consolidation.

Gaza City: Israeli warplanes kept up deadly raids on Gaza Friday but failed to stop Palestinian militants firing rockets across the border, as the United States offered to help negotiate a truce. With the violence growing worse, US President Barack Obama in a ...

There is an apocryphal story about high profile lawyer politicians that often does the rounds. That when one set gets into the government they had over their cases to the ones in the opposition and when the latter come into government, their cases go to those ...

In what must be one of the longest Budget speeches which went on for 43 pages, the finance minister has not quite presented a revolutionary set of proposals as was expected by the market, but focused on fiscal prudence and gradual movement towards the ...

Alfred Hitchcock, the British director, who taught Hollywood how to make thrillers, once famously said: "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." On a lighter note, this rule should apply to the speeches that ...

India lock horns with England in a five-Test series. The visitors would be looking to exorcise the ghosts of their last visit to England where they were hammered 4-0 by the hosts. India have been defeated in their last two series' by England and overall too, ...

Neymar sobbed on the ground as relief poured over him and his team mates when Chile missed their last penalty. Júlio César, dubbed the 'villain of 2010' by the Brazilian media, gave an interview while sobbing with relief. Thiago Silva gave a similarly ...

BELO HORIZONTE Brazil (Reuters) - An unfinished overpass collapsed in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing at least two people, emergency officials said. Television images showed the front of a passenger bus crushed by ...

Facebook has been facing user ire after it transpired that the company had secretly manipulated the News Feeds of around 700,000 users for its study about “emotional contagion.” In the study, Facebook disclosed how Facebook emotions can be contagious ...

Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook and is ninth of Forbes' most powerful women in the world, was on a visit to India this week. She gave an interview to CNBC-TV18′s Executive Editor Shereen Bhan discussing the importance of India for Facebook as ...

India, an emerging global economic power, has the potential to become the largest economy in the world, Facebook chief operating officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg said today. Sandberg, who served as chief of staff for the US Treasury Department under ...

Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook and is ninth of Forbes' most powerful women in the world, was on a visit to India this week. She gave an interview to CNBC-TV18′s Executive Editor Shereen Bhan discussing the importance of India for Facebook as ...