Iranian drone spotted in Bahrain's airspace
Posted On, May 22, 2013
Bahrain's Interior Minister Wednesday said an Iranian drone was spotted in Bahrain's airspace in the northern part of the country near Saudi Arabia.
FBI asked to track hate crimes against Sikhs
Posted On, May 22, 2013
A bipartisan group of 23 lawmakers have asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to begin tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, the way it does for other communities.
Six Chinese indicted for sex scandal
Posted On, May 22, 2013
Six people have been prosecuted for allegedly working together to blackmail government officials in the Chinese city of Chongqing with secretly recorded sex videos.
Brazil's Embraer to sell 40 jets to US airline
Posted On, May 22, 2013
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer said Tuesday it reached a deal to sell 40 E175 passenger jets to US airline SkyWest for nearly $1.7 billion.
Posted On, May 22, 2013
Iraq's central criminal court has resumed an investigation into officials suspected of corruption in a $4.2 billion deal to purchase Russian weapons.
Posted On, May 22, 2013
Saudi Arabia has arrested 10 people on suspicion of espionage for Iran, the interior ministry announced Tuesday.
Posted On, May 22, 2013
Russia will decommission and scrap two of the world's largest submarines by 2018, a defence industry source has said.
Posted On, May 22, 2013
China is likely to make a substantive move this year toward initiating an anti-dumping investigation into wine imported from the eurozone, according to Xinhua .
Posted On, May 22, 2013
Residents of suburban Oklahoma were returning home as rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead after a mammoth tornado - said to be as wide as 22 football fields - flattened countless homes and claimed 24 lives, including nine children.
Posted On, May 22, 2013
An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer in Uttar Pradesh has been transferred a staggering 59 times in his careeer, while 43 of his colleagues have been shifted more than 40 times, a Right To Information (RTI) query has revealed.
Posted On, May 22, 2013
The Delhi High Court Wednesday ordered that a perjury case be registered against Bollywood actor Shayan Munshi and ballistic expert Prem Sagar Minocha for turning hostile during their deposition in the murder trial of model Jessica Lall.
Posted On, May 22, 2013
As the UPA got down to celebrating its fourth anniversary, the BJP Wednesday trained its guns on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said he was neither leader of his party nor the country.
Posted On, May 22, 2013
A businessman and six members of his family, including his three grandchildren, were found killed in their house in a densely populated locality here Wednesday, police said.
Posted On, May 22, 2013
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was early Wednesday quietly shifted from Arthur Road jail to Pune's high-security Yerwada Central Jail, officials said.
Posted On, May 22, 2013
Tim Cook came to the lion's den on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, prepared to face down lawmakers furious over evidence that Apple, the famous company he runs, had avoided paying billions in taxes.
Murray pulls out of French Open
Posted On, May 22, 2013
US Open and Olympic champion Andy Murray Tuesday announced he will skip the French Open tennis due to a back injury.
Chennai through to fourth consecutive IPL final
Posted On, May 22, 2013
Blistering unbeaten knocks by David Hussey and Suresh Raina took two-time champions Chennai Super Kings to their fifth Indian Premier League (IPL) final in six seasons with a comprehensive 48-run win over Mumbai Indians in the first qualifier at the Ferozeshah Kotla here Tuesday.
Posted On, May 22, 2013
Microsoft unveiled a new Xbox console Tuesday that represents a major upgrade on the US-market-leading Xbox 360 model.
