Street-to-street fighting broke out for the first time inside a flashpoint town in east Ukraine yesterday, officials and pro-Russian rebels said, dealing a harsh blow to a fragile ceasefire just three days old.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday vowed to protect all religious groups after a string of attacks on churches in Delhi.

As dawn breaks over the Indian capital, a group of police women are already hard at work practising their punches, on a mission to rid the city's streets of sexual predators.

Residents who fled from conflict areas near the Myanmar and Chinese border arrive at a temporary refugee camp at a monastery in Lashio,

The death toll from swine flu in 2015 alone has soared to 585 with 100 more casualties reported across the country in since February 12, prompting the Centre to order additional stocks of medicines and diagnostic kits.

The UN has agreed to Sri Lanka's request to delay a long-awaited report into alleged atrocities committed during Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war.

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration on Monday.

Syrian government troops began a new offensive around the northern city of Aleppo yesterday,

An Indian baby born in the train toilet survives after falling on the tracks

The world's largest party, which organizers hope will attract some five million people over five days before officially winding down Tuesday night with a mass of street parties known as blocos.

Not all of Philip Levine's poetry was about his hometown of Detroit, but a lot of it was.

A shaky truce in Ukraine was already at risk on its second day yesterday with both the Kiev government and pro-Russian separatists accusing each other of attacks holding up an agreed pull-back of heavy weapons from the frontline.

Moscow said yesterday it would respond to the latest EU sanctions over the Ukraine conflict which target several prominent figures including a popular singer, condemning them as "inconsistent and illogical".

Talks between the Peoples Democratic Party or PDP and the BJP for government formation in Jammu and Kashmir have hit a last-mile hurdle, say sources.

“We're very grateful for Netanyahu's concern but having said that, we are Danish -- we're Danish Jews but we're Danish -- and it won't be terror that makes us go to Israel"

For years Arabs have been effectively marginalised in Israel's political life.

Sri Lanka's new president arrived in India Sunday on his first foreign trip in office, trying to rebuild ties hit by tensions over growing Chinese influence on the strategically located island.

The suspected gunman in two fatal shootings in Copenhagen may have been inspired by the Islamist attacks in Paris a month ago, Danish police said yesterday.

Israel is your home. We are preparing and calling for the absorption of mass immigration from Europe

Congress yesterday sought to give a new twist to AAP's victory in the Delhi polls with party general secretary Digvijaya Singh saying Arvind Kejriwal is part of the overall plan of RSS for a "Congress Free India".