MOSCOWRussian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Monday to renew efforts to find a solution to a decades-long territorial row that has prevented the two sides from signing a World War II peace treaty.After two hours of talks in the Kremlin, they agreed to order ...

ISLAMABAD – PML-Nawaz leader Chaudhry Nisar said on Monday the government had sold an island worth billions of rupees near Karachi and he would bring a lawsuit against it. Interacting with the media outside Parliament, Nisar said he knew it very well that to whom the island had been sold and ...

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been remanded in custody at New York's notorious Rikers Island jail on charges of sexual assault. The judge said Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, was a flight risk. He was arrested on Saturday after boarding a plane and accused of trying to rape a hotel maid. He faces seven ...

There were more than 200 serious incidents as the New Zealand upper North Island was lashed by tropical cyclone Wilma overnight, the Fire Service said on Saturday. Several houses have been damaged or destroyed, with one house fell into the sea and another one collapsed because of a slip. About 70 ...

South Korea will hold a live-fire drill in an area shelled by North Korea as early as Saturday, the military said today. The announcement came as a US politician, Bill Richardson, arrived in Pyongyang at the invitation of North Korea. He has previously acted as a go-between and said he hoped to ...

A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake registered Wednesday near the Aleutian Andreanof Islands of Alaska, the US Geological Service said. The USGS said in its preliminary assessment that the epicenter was 143 kilometers (89 miles) west-southwest of Adak, Alaska, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean and ...

A strong earthquake struck off Indonesia's Java island on Saturday but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued, seismologists said. The quake struck at 4:50 pm (1450 PST), 118 kilometers (73 miles) south west of Tasikmalaya, West Java, at a depth of 34 ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 has struck Indonesias North Maluku province. There have been no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning has been issued. The U.S. Geological Survey says Saturdays quake was centred near Obi island at a depth of about 53 km. The area is ...

Flash floods that turned into street torrents destroying houses and pulling down bridges, killed at least 38 people and injured over 100 on the Portuguese island of Madeira, officials said Sunday. Portugal rushed medical teams, rescuers, divers and relief supplies to the tourist island, warning ...

Three militants were executed late Saturday for helping plan and carry out the 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people dead, many of them foreign tourists, lawyers and relatives said. Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim, and Ali Ghufron were executed just before midnight several kilometers from their ...