Army troops found 2.2 tonnes of marijuana in a cemetery in Los Villa Nueva, a community in northeastern Mexico, said authorities
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney, currently on a visit to Israel, emphasized that America has "a solemn duty and a moral imperative" to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weaponry.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's son Bilawal has been awarded a BA Honours degree at a convocation of the Oxford University.
The Israeli government has denied a newspaper report that the Obama administration's top security official has briefed the Jewish state's prime minister on US plans for a possible attack on Iran.
Rescuers in Indonesia say they have led a beached sperm whale back to the sea after hordes of spectators blocked its return for days.
Afghan officials say insurgents have shot and killed a government official in eastern Afghanistan.
A British man who joked on Twitter that he would blow up an airport after it closed because of snow has had his conviction for sending a "menacing" message overturned in a landmark ruling.
Rehman Malik, advisor to Pakistani prime minister on interior affairs, Friday took oath as a senator, weeks after he was forced to step down over his alleged British citizenship.
Indonesian zookeepers have moved an orangutan out of visitors' sight so she'll no longer smoke lit cigarettes people regularly throw into her cage.
The US-led coalition says insurgent attacks in Afghanistan during the past three months were up 11 percent, compared to the same period last year.
Anti-government activists see al-Bashir's 23-year-old regime as the ripest in the region to fall. He has been weakened by the loss of oil-rich South Sudan, which became independent last year.
Ivica Dacic — who had earned the nickname "Little Sloba" in the past for his admiration of the former Yugoslav president — pledged once again in his speech to the lawmakers on Thursday that he would press on with Serbia's bid to join the European Union and promote peace and stability in the Balkans.
Prime Minister David Cameron says he plans to hold talks with Russia President Vladimir Putin next week at an Olympic judo match.
In China couples can get divorced in less than half an hour, but a city in east China's Zhejiang province has introduced a policy requiring couples to wait for a week before they can get divorce.
Two Pakistani soldiers were injured when Afghan troops intruded into Pakistan's tribal belt and attacked a check post.
Vladimir Putin is so paranoid about being poisoned that he has his every meal tested by qualified food tasters, a former chef of the Russian president has claimed.
A 55-year-old man from Poland cycled around 2,000 km across six countries to see his daughter graduate from a British university.
A Sri Lankan Tamil politician and another man were believed to have been involved in attempts to send several Tamils to Australia by boat.
Singer Elton John believes AIDS can be cured with love as that is what drives research into the potentially fatal disease.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said that if voted to power, he would ensure completion of successful transition to the Afghan security forces by the end of 2014.
A judge in the Manchester Crown Court yesterday began summing up the trial of a Briton who has admitted shooting Indian student Anuj Bidve on 26 December last year.
Identity theft now accounts for two-thirds of all frauds, according to Britain's fraud prevention service.
A bull whose roaming had closed the airport serving one of Vietnam's tourist cities was captured on Tuesday, and authorities said it may have killed an elderly villager.
The Save Goa Campaign is organised by Carmen Miranda, a Goan-origin British resident, to highlight the environmental destruction due to illegal mining in Goa.
French lawmakers are nearing passage of a law on sexual harassment, more than two months after the country's previous one was thrown out by a court — and all pending cases along with it.
An Indian-origin doctor, who came to the UK in 1966 and went on to excel in medical practice to win royal honours, has hit the headlines by defying death by being cured of cancer even though he was given few months to live.
The plight of a pregnant teenager suffering from acute leukemia has stirred up the controversy over abortion in the Dominican Republic, where the constitution bans abortion even in cases where the mother's life is in danger.
Four Indian-American researchers figure among 96 named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest US honour for young professionals.
A former Indian-American principal of a New York Montessori school has surrendered to authorities to begin a two-to-seven-year prison term for sex with one of her 13-year-old students.