MUMBAI: Leading Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan has been accused of fracturing a man's nose in an alleged assault at a luxury hotel restaurant in Mumbai, Indian police said on Wednesday.

A case was registered against Saif after a South African man complained to police that he was punched ....

GAZA CITY: A reconciliation deal between rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas must be implemented in a "thorough and honest" way, members of Hamas's leadership said on Wednesday.

"We stress the need for thorough and honest implementation of the reconciliation agreements of Cairo and....

JERUSALEM: Israel’s top court struck down a law designed to encourage ultra-Orthodox Jews to join the military and the workforce, saying it had backfired by “entrenching” their blanket draft exemptions and protracted seminary studies.

The ruling was welcomed by Israel....

GAZA CITY: A reconciliation deal between rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas must be implemented in a "thorough and honest" way, members of Hamas's leadership said on Wednesday.

"We stress the need for thorough and honest implementation of the reconciliation agreements of Cairo and....

WASHINGTON: If you knew you would be around to blow out the candles at your 100th birthday party, would that change how you manage your money today?

The answer was yes for three out of four affluent Americans polled in a Merrill Lynch survey released Wednesday. Many will make it there:....

SEOUL: Isolationist North Korea lashed out at its neighbor on Wednesday for hosting an international nuclear security summit in Seoul next month, calling it a "childish farce" and an "intolerable grave provocation."

The South has said Pyongyang can send a delegate to the conference inv....

CANBERRA: Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned on Wednesday, saying he could no longer work with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, igniting a new and bitter leadership crisis for the struggling minority government.

Gillard's government has sunk in popularity as Gillard and Rudd,....

VIENNA/TEHRAN: The U.N. nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran's suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase the risk of confrontation with the West.

In a defiant response, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Ira....

AMMAN: A main opposition group on Wednesday called on Syrians to boycott an upcoming referendum on a new constitution, saying it was an attempt by President Bashar al-Assad to cover up a crackdown.

"The regime is using this proposal to cover up for its massacres. A constitution cannot ....

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) today set conditions to take part in an all-party conference, convened by the government to discuss the Balochistan issue.

According to sources, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has linked his party’s partic....