According to a senior State Department official, the United States is considering the possibility of using military force to free the 21 South Korean hostages detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban had held 23 South Koreans as hostages on...

The Iranian adjudicators confirmed on Tuesday that two journalists from the Kurdish minority of the country have been given death sentence, according to the Iranian state media. As judiciary spokesperson Ali Reza Jamshidi told the Islamic Republic News...

The legendary Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni expired on July 30th 2007, just a few hours after the death of another living legend in the history of world cinema - the Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman. Antonioni died at the age of...

A group of relief organizations said in a report that living conditions in Iraq have been worsening drastically since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, leaving nearly one-third of the inhabitants in want of crisis support. According to the report, 70% of...

A case under the Anti-Dowry Act has been registered at a police station in Moradabad against Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, his wife Beena Singh, son Abhimanyu Singh, grandson Abhijeet Singh and three others. According to...

The Nandigram carnage is about to appear on the silver screen. Ujjwal Chatterjee, who made ‘Escape From Taliban’, and is known for making controversial films, is reportedly directing the film in Bengali. Mithun Chakraborty, Gracy Singh and...

Hopes for a fast removal of the British forces from Iraq seem to have weakened. A British minister said yesterday that the current force level in Iraq was required for the protection of the troops. Bob Ainsworth, the Armed Forces minister, told the...

In some parts of the world, a woman is still considered ‘inferior’ to men, however bizarre it may sound in the year 2007. Gender inequality is a major crisis in Scotland even today. Reportedly, it could take several years for Scotland to...

Daniel Radcliffe, the onscreen ‘Harry Potter’, has turned 18 today. He was just an 11-year-old kid when he first entered the silver screen as Harry Potter. He was cast as a schoolboy wizard in the ‘Harry Potter’ movies based on...

The saga of violence is still on in Nandigram. A shootout erupted between CPM and anti-land seize campaigners in Tulaghata and Bhangabera areas of afflicted Nandigram on Sunday. The incident took place alongside the vital municipal polls commencing in...