MOSCOW: The Russian parliament's upper chamber voted on Wednesday to revoke the right that it had granted President Vladimir Putin in March to order a military intervention in Ukraine, where Kiev is struggling to quell a rebellion by Russian speakers in ...

Italy need a point to ensure their knockout berth but Italian striker Mario Balotelli knows it will not be easy against a talented and dangerous Uruguay side. The mercurial marksman says it won't be a clash between him and Suarez rather an encounter between ...

TIMES VIEW Yes, time to move on. Spain's shocking exit from the ongoing Fifa World Cup in Brazil has raised several eyebrows regarding the team's tactics and football philosophy. Over the last six years, the Spanish team has appeared indomitable, winning ...

BAGHDAD: Alarmed over the Sunni insurgent mayhem convulsing Iraq, the country's political leaders are actively jockeying to replace PM Nouri Kamal al-Maliki, Iraqi officials said on Thursday. The political leaders have been encouraged by what they see as ...

MADRID: Taking the Spanish throne on Thursday, King Felipe VI sought to inspire his beleaguered countrymen amid troubled economic times and lift patriotic spirits a day after the national team's humbling exit from the World Cup. "We are a great nation.

CHENNAI: The 46 Indian nurses in a hospital in the strife-torn Iraqi town of Tikrit have sent an SOS to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure their safe return to India. One of the nurses told TOI over telephone that they were living in perpetual fear as ISIS ...

BEIJING: Foreign direct investment into China fell 6.7 per cent year-on-year to $8.6 billion in May amid a steady drop in inflows from the US, European Union and Japan. For the January-May period this year, the FDI, which excludes investment in the financial ...

German media was full of praise on Tuesday for a sterling performance by Joachim Loew's team in their opening 4-0 World Cup win over Portugal that instantly wiped away fears they might have lost their edge. Full Coverage: World Cup 2014 | Points Table | ...

FORTALEZA (Brazil): Brazil fans should not expect the team to dominate Mexico in their second match in World Cup Group A, coach Luiz Felipe Scolari warned on Monday, aiming to reduce the pressure on the five-time champions. Full Coverage: World Cup ...

FORTALEZA (Brazil): Brazil fans should not expect the team to dominate Mexico in their second match in World Cup Group A, coach Luiz Felipe Scolari warned on Monday, aiming to reduce the pressure on the five-time champions. Full Coverage: World Cup ...

FORTALEZA (Brazil): Brazil fans should not expect the team to dominate Mexico in their second match in World Cup Group A, coach Luiz Felipe Scolari warned on Monday, aiming to reduce the pressure on the five-time champions. Full Coverage: World Cup ...

SALVADOR (Brazil): Striker Thomas Mueller scored a hat-trick as Germany opened their World Cup campaign on Monday with a 4-0 rout of 10-man Portugal with Cristiano Ronaldo enduring an afternoon to forget. Full Coverage: World Cup 2014 | Points ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said he will not allow Pakistan to become a "sanctuary of terrorists" and asserted that the military operation against the Taliban in North Waziristan tribal region would continue until militants are eliminated.

The joke doing the rounds ahead of the mouth-watering Germany-Portugal Group G meeting in Salvador is that while Portugal only need the imperious Cristiano Ronaldo to win the match, the more complete German side need Franck Ribery and Arjen ...

The joke doing the rounds ahead of the mouth-watering Germany-Portugal Group G meeting in Salvador is that while Portugal only need the imperious Cristiano Ronaldo to win the match, the more complete German side need Franck Ribery and Arjen ...

The Indian Film And Television Directors' Association (IFTDA) and The Indian Film And Television Producers' Council (IFTPC) have written to the Prime Minister's Office requesting a meeting with Narendra Modi. READ: Narendra Modi finds fans in Bollywood

ISLAMABAD: Missiles from US drones slammed into militant hideouts overnight in northwestern Pakistan, killing 13 suspected insurgents and marking the resumption of the CIA-led program after a nearly six-month break, officials said on Thursday. The two ...

ISLAMABAD: Missiles from US drones slammed into militant hideouts overnight in northwestern Pakistan, killing 13 suspected insurgents and marking the resumption of the CIA-led program after a nearly six-month break, officials said on Thursday. The two ...

MOSCOW: Five men received long jail terms on Monday for the killing of prominent Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya after a trial that did not reveal who had masterminded the Russian journalist's murder. Politkovskaya, an investigative reporter who ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Thursday revealed that is working on a tablet computer with 3D and motion-sensing capabilities in an effort dubbed Project Tango. "The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and ...