In a daring rescue operation, elite American commandos have rescued an Indian-American doctor who was in the custody of the Taliban in Afghanistan, losing one Navy SEAL and killing seven insurgents.
United States authorities have arrested a 20-year-old man who allegedly planed to commit a mass murder at the screening of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2, at a Missouri Walmart.
Professor Roger G Bilham, who was put on a plane out of India last year for his non-establishment views on India's seismicity, tells Arthur J Pais that the new visa regulation barring scientific and journalistic work on tourist visa will affect academics
New York City continued their recent surge as Spaniard David Villa notched two classy goals, including the late winner, in a 2-1 away win.
Indian-American doctor Dilip Joseph, who was rescued from Taliban's captivity in a daring operation in Afghanistan has thanked the US and Afghan forces for saving his life, after the physician returned home in Colorado.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy has described the shooting at an elementary school a "tragedy of unspeakable terms" that left 20 children and six adults dead in one of the most horrific incidents in US history.
International education consultant NNS Chandra shares advice on how to pick the right international education.
The biggest snowstorm to hit the US east coast in more than a decade has left at least six people dead and homes across five states without power.
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A single shot was fired at the Obama campaign office in the western US state of Colorado, damaging a window, a local media report said.
Claiming that Pakistan was being run to the ground, the country's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has not ruled out a fresh military takeover of the nation.
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The World Bank's executive board unanimously selected 63-year-old Malpass, who is currently Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs, as the bank's 13th President for a five-year term beginning April 9.
Lance Armstrong was back on his bike on Saturday, urging his supporters not to 'cry' for him a day after the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (USADA) decision to strip his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life.
President Barack Obama would cast his ballot on Friday for the November 6 US presidential elections, thus becoming the first US President to vote early in the country's electoral history.
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After clearing "all hazards" from the booby-trapped apartment of a gunman who went on a shooting spree at a US cinema hall, police entered the "designed to kill" house where the suspect had planned the deadly attack with "calculation and deliberation" for months.
As authorities investigate the rampant shooting incident at a movie hall during a showing of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises in Denver, Colorado, psychologists have said that James Holmes, one of the two masked gunmen, who stalked the aisles at the theatre with a rifle, may be delusional.
A masked gunman on Friday turned the much-awaited premiere of the latest Batman movie in a US cinema hall into a "horrific" bloodbath, spraying the audience with bullets killing 12 people and leaving 59 others injured in the worst mass shooting incident in the country since 2007.
The gunman, who was in full body armour, targeted a crowded cinema hall in the city of Aurora in Colorado, a suburb of Denver, the FOX news reported quoting local police.
Colorado-based cartoonist Dr Thomas A Kodenkandath, also known as Thommy, has won a prize for his cartoon headlined 'Indian Rupee gets a Symbol' from the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi.
Planetary scientists claim that the Hubble telescope has found hints of "building blocks of life" on Pluto.
Rick Santorum, the former Senator from Pennsylvania, on Wednesday won the Republican caucuses in three states, reshaping the party's primary race and staking out his claim to be the main alternative to front-runner Mitt Romney.
United States President Barack Obama on Monday described the shooting in a Colorado theater this week that claimed 12 lives as an "act of evil", as he visited Aurora -- the city of tragic incident -- to meet the victims' families.
A masked gunman on Friday turned the much-awaited premiere of the latest Batman flick in a United States cinema hall into a bloodbath, spraying the crowd with bullets, killing 14 people and leaving 50 others injured in the worst mass shooting in the country since 2007.
India's first female grappler at the Olympics, Geeta Phogat can spring a few upsets with a little bit of luck at the upcoming quadrennial event in London, feels chief coach of the women's wrestling team, O P Yadav.
The US appears to be on track to see over 160 million votes cast in the 2020 presidential election, a turnout rate of about 67 per cent, which is higher than what the country has witnessed in more than a century, as President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden campaigned through the final day to get more voters to the polling booths.
Lakshmi Balachandra of Boston College and Ishani Tewari of Brown University were among 15 exceptional doctoral students honored by the Kauffman Foundation with its annual Dissertation Fellowship. Each of them will get $20,000 to support their dissertation research in the area of entrepreneurship.
India's Amit Kumar and Sushil Kumar won a gold medal each in the Dave Schultz Memorial International Wrestling Tournament in the United States.
Davis, whose arrest had sparked diplomatic tensions between the US and Pakistan, was released after paying a blood money of $2.3 million to the families of the victims, whom he shot dead on a road in Lahore in January.
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Two weeks after India successfully launched its maiden Mars mission, America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration has launched a new spacecraft to orbit the red planet to probe how it lost its atmosphere and abundant liquid water.
Lance Armstrong has been charged with crashing into two parked cars in the Colorado ski resort.
US world 100 metres silver medallist Tyson Gay had an arthroscopic procedure on his injured right hip and will not run again this year, his manager said on Thursday.
A Colorado woman, who was an accomplice to terror accused 'Jihad Jane', on Wednesday pleaded guilty to conspiring to support terrorists and travelling to Europe and South Asia to wage "violent jihad".
Arsene Wenger is one of the world's greatest managers and his future at Arsenal is assured for as long as he wants to stay, the club's owner Stan Kroenke said in a rare interview on Friday.
Scientists claim to have finally solved the mystery after they discovered a major source of hot gas that replenishes the corona -- jets of plasma shooting up from just above the Sun's surface, the 'Science' journal reported.
One of the many supporters cheering on Barack Obama -- during his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention at Colorado -- was his brother-in-law Professor Konrad Ng, a Chinese Canadian originally from Burlington, Ontario. "Barack is just a terrific guy," says Ng, and recalls with fondness how much the presidential hopeful had put him at ease the first time he visited the Obama household.
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