Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, missile scientist and President extraordinary of India (2002-07) was a rare combination of doer and talker, a karma yogi, who drew his last breath, aged 83, while addressing a rapt, youthful audience in Shillong...

As PM Modi readies for his Head of Government visit to the UK in November there are several important matters.

In a first of its kind penalty issued by the Iranian government, the country has banned a weekly newspaper, 9th Dey Weekly, managed by ultra-conservative lawmaker Hamid Rasaie for criticising its recent nuclear deal with the West.

Italian police has arrested 11 suspects linked to fugitive head of the Sicilian Mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro; one of them, a former boss who ran a sheep-based code secret message system for the mobster.

Unemployment in the eurozone is neither improving nor getting worse, despite hopes that the latest figures would show a further drop in the jobless rate. The unemployment rate stayed at 11.1 per cent in June from the same level the previous...

United States Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly in consideration for entering the 2016 presidential race, a move which will throw yet another obstacle in Democratic Hillary Clinton's way.