Overall, the average growth in parcels to international destinations rose by 19 percent over the first quarter of 2012.
A publisher says armed men have stormed his newspaper press in Sri Lanka's former war zone and set fire to the machines and newspapers ready for distribution in a second attack on the paper in two weeks.
Sampath described the pact as a landmark and an important mechanism for deepening mutual collaboration between the election offices of India and Mauritius.
As the inquest into Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar's death entered its fifth day in an Irish courtroom on Friday, her stressed husband excused himself from attending the hearing.
Two armed men riding a motorcycle shot at Fakhrul Islam, 46, outside his home in Halanaka area of Hyderabad city this afternoon.
The wallet contained his driving licence, gym membership card, union membership card and payment plan for a new TV, <em>The Mirror</em> reported.
A man has been arrested after police say he made a bomb threat outside the White House.
A 17-year-old who was appointed Britain's first youth police commissioner has stepped down amid a scandal over offensive material she posted on Twitter.
Some South Africans have given thanks in Sunday prayers for the improvement in the health of Nelson Mandela, the former president who was discharged from a hospital after treatment for pneumonia.
Egyptian train drivers and conductors announced they were on strike on Sunday to press demands for better pay, the latest in a seemingly endless series of work stoppages to hit the country in the past two years.
India has processed more than 15,500 transactions and disbursed Rs 100 crore in the last six months to beneficiaries in Sri Lanka under the second phase of a housing project there with the help of five Indian banks.
Oman will switch to a Friday-Saturday weekend to align its banking and business days with most other nations in the region.
The epicentre was located along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, Pakistan's state-run radio reported.
The three, Ravi, Rishi and Nishi Kant, who started the nongovernmental organization Shakti Vahini to fight injustice against women in 2001, received a "Solidarity Award" for their work at the annual Kennedy Centre event Tuesday.
In a bizarre incident, a father in the US shot dead his family dog and sliced open its stomach to retrieve his son's finger that was bitten off and swallowed by the canine.
A foreign man and woman studying Portuguese in Brazil were held for hours while the woman was sexually assaulted aboard a public transport van they boarded over the weekend in Rio de Janeiro's showcase Copacabana beach neighborhood.
The dancers were targeting a law from the 1960s that levies a tax on businesses that offer attendees the "opportunity" to dance. Cover charges and tickets for movies, plays and concerts are exempt from that tax.
The Sun will be the first popular tabloid to charge for online access.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck near Guatemala City on Monday, but residents said they barely felt the temblor and authorities had no immediate reports of damages or deaths.
A Golden Retriever in Australia has entered the Guinness World Record for the loudest bark, registering an incredible woof of 113.1 decibels, as loud as a rock concert or a steel mill.
Suspected militants disguised as security personnel kidnapped two Czech women tourists on their way to India from Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, according to media reports on Thursday.
The real-life inspiration for Robin Hood - the heroic outlaw in English folklore - lived near Tunbridge Wells and not the royal Sherwood Forest, known for its association with the legendary figure, experts claim.
Researchers say a rough, whitish crystal recovered from the wreckage of 16th century English warship may be a sunstone, a special kind of mineral believed by some to have helped medieval seafarers navigate the high seas.
A 28-year-old Indian on a night out at Edinburgh city in Scotland has become the 'unprovoked' victim of a racist attack, requiring treatment for facial injuries.
There is no evidence for Shakespeare's depiction of King Richard III as a murdering psychopath but he may have been a control freak, UK psychologists claim.