July 23, 2013
LONDON: The world was awaiting the first glimpse of Britain's new prince on Tuesday with camera crews poised to photograph Prince William and his wife, Kate, leaving a London hospital with their baby son.
Prince William's wife Kate gives birth to royal baby boy.
July 23, 2013
WASHINGTON: As BJP president Rajnath Singh is here batting for visa for Narendra Modi, 65 Members of Parliament have written letters to President Barack Obama, urging the US administration to maintain the current policy of denying visa to him.
July 23, 2013
BAGHDAD: Al-Qaida claimed responsibility on Tuesday for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons and said more than 500 inmates had been set free in the operation, one of its most brazen in Iraq.
Mourners pray at the coffin of a victim killed during an attack on a prison in Taj
July 22, 2013
"Our two nations are striving to make progress and this relationship plays a really important role in that, as it should," Joe Biden said.
July 22, 2013
MUMBAI: The rupee today fell by 37 paise, its biggest drop in two weeks, to close at 59.72 following month-end dollar demand from oil importers and some custodian banks coupled with capital outflows.
A weak dollar overseas failed to restrict the rupee's decline, a forex dealer said.
July 22, 2013
NEW DELHI: Coming out strongly against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Monday said he does not want him to become India's Prime Minister as he does not have secular credentials. The prominent economist also criticised Modi's model of governance saying he did not approve of it.
July 22, 2013
NEW DELHI: Coming out strongly against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Monday said he does not want him to become India's Prime Minister as he does not have secular credentials. The prominent economist also criticised Modi's model of governance saying he did not approve of it.
July 22, 2013
This undated electron microscope image made availalbe by the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows novel corona virus particles, also known as the MERS virus, colorized in yellow.
July 21, 2013
BEIJING: A man dubbed as "sex offender" in China was sentenced to death on Sunday for raping and molesting minor girls between 2008 and 2012.
Zhang Qinghai, a coal mine worker, was found guilty of raping two girls, aged seven and nine, a court in east China's Anhui province said while pronouncing the sentence with a two-year reprieve.
July 21, 2013
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday acknowledged that the embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has strengthened his position in recent months.
The Syrian civil war between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels have claimed nearly 100,000 lives in the country.
