May 19, 2013
Raha Moharrak, 25, was joined by 34 other foreigners and 29 Nepalese Sherpa guides who made the treacherous climb from the highest camp to the peak of the mountain, at 29,035 feet.
May 19, 2013
SEOUL: North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, a Seoul official said.
The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP without elaborating.
On Saturday the communist state fired three short-range missiles off the east coast, apparently as part of a military drill, at a time when cross-border tensions remain high.
May 19, 2013
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan.
May 19, 2013
The Depsang area in Ladakh region is a very strategic region, and the incursion was a way of signalling its importance to the Chinese
May 18, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Royal Challengers Bangalore 106 for 2 in 8 ov (Kohli 56*, Gayle 28) beat Chennai Super Kings 82 for 6 in 8 ov (Vijay 32, Zaheer 4-17) by 24 runs
Zaheer's double strike ensured a bad start for Chennai.
May 18, 2013
The Bollywood star is being held in a cell designed for militants where he cannot see the light of day. Dutt surrendered on Thursday and is serving time for connections to the 1993 Mumbai bombing.
Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt is pictured in Mumbai on May 5, 2013
May 18, 2013
Even when President Obama was on the campaign trail last year, his administration knew the IRS was targeting conservative group, a witness testified Friday.
May 18, 2013
An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has begun his ascent of Mount Everest, in a bid to become the oldest man to reach highest peak in the world. Yuichiro Miura came to worldwide attention in 1970 when he became the first person to ski down Everest.
May 18, 2013
Washington — Expected to be the hardest, polio eradication was made possible in India thanks to social mobilization and mapping of houses refusing the vaccine, according to Microsoft's Bill Gates.
May 18, 2013
WASHINGTON: An Indian has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges of trafficking immigrants from India into the United States, the department of justice said.
