The US presidential race took off with Hillary Clinton finally jumping into the fray with an aura of inevitability, but that analysts suggested may turn out

US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have wished Bengali-speaking people around the world 'Shubho Nobo Borsho!' on the occasion of Bengali New Year.

No one intervened while a woman was being gang raped in daylight on a crowded public beach in Florida in March, or reported the assault to police.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is joining the roster of the very rich who are giving away their wealth.

At least 20 people were killed and three others injured on Saturday when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a labour camp in Pakistan's Balochistan's province.

US President Barack Obama said that the world powers have reached a "historic understanding with Iran, which, if fully implemented, will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon".

An Indian American woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison following her conviction last month for of female foeticide.

Bangladesh's Mustafa Kamal said on Wednesday he is resigning from the post of president of the International Cricket Council (ICC)

Four death row convicts were hanged on Tuesday in different jails in Pakistan's Punjab province, a media report said.

As one of the Vietnam War's final battles raged four decades ago, Quynh Pham lay with her mother in a field covered in a stranger's blood. They survived only by pretending to be dead.

The US has told a court here that it intends to move for dismissal of a lawsuit for declaring India's RSS as a "terror group" while seeking time till April 14 to do so.

China has overtaken Germany to become the world's third-biggest arms exporter, although its 5% of the market remains small compared to the combined 58% of exports from the US and Russia, a new study says. 

The White House said on Friday that the US cannot confirm that the extremists responsible for bombing attacks in Yemen were affiliated to the Islamic State (IS) group.

In a remarkable interfaith gesture, ElizaBeth W. Beyer, Rabbi in California and Nevada, has urged public apology 

Distinguished religious statesman Rajan Zed was warmly welcomed in Boise, which he visited to open the Idaho State Senate on March three