NEW DELHI - India's sports minister on Thursday branded as "shameful" the spot-fixing scandal involving the arrest of three cricketers, including Test fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, and 11 bookmakers. Police last week arrested Sreesanth and teammates Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila from the ...

MOSCOW: Moscow reacted angrily on Tuesday as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted that its vote at the Eurovision Song Contest awarding “nul points” to Russia’s song appeared to have been falsified.The scandal topped the agenda at a televised briefing between the countries’ ...

SAN JOSE : Costa Rica’s President Laura Chinchilla was embroiled in scandal Thursday amid revelations that she used a private jet made available by a Colombian suspected of links to drug trafficking.The disclosure has prompted the resignation of her communications minister and sent Costa ...

MELVIN A GOODMAN When congressional Republicans complete manipulating the Benghazi tragedy, it will be time for the virtually silent Senate intelligence committee to take up three major issues that have been largely ignored.  The committee must investigate the fact that the US presence in ...

MOSCOW Russia and the United States on Wednesday sought to limit the damage to already troubled ties from a new spy scandal that erupted when Moscow caught a blonde-wigged alleged CIA agent who was reportedly seeking information on the Boston bombings.The suspected agent, who Moscow says was caught ...

SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday raided the country’s spy agency as part of a probe into allegations that it meddled in the presidential election in December, a news report said.A team of about 25 prosecutors and investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ ...

  KARACHI   Pakistani pacer Wahab Riaz believes the national team will not be haunted by the spot-fixing scandal when they go toEnglandfor the ICC Champions Trophy in June. Wahab was part of thePakistansquad that was hit by the spot-fixing scandal in 2010 after the fourth Test at Lords, ...

PARIS - The world's biggest food company, Swiss-based Nestle, and the world's top beef producer, JBS of Brazil, were Tuesday the latest in a long list of firms to be caught up in Europe's spiralling horsemeat scandal.Their involvement in the fast-moving drama marked another milestone in a scandal ...

PARIS - The Europe-wide scandal over horsemeat sold as beef spread Sunday as leading French retailers pulled products from their shelves and France promised to have the results of an inquiry within days. As the Nordic branch of frozen food giant Findus said it planned to sue a French producer and ...

The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) froze 22 bank accounts of former health minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin on Thursday and directed the bank managers not to let the former minister withdraw any money from the accounts in ephedrine quota scam. According to ANF, the money deposited in the 22 bank accounts ...