Pristina hosted "Rainbows of Pristina", a children's festival. Also in cultural news this week: a Serbian writer wins the prestigious Balkanika literary award, and a Bulgarian film wins the public award at the Zurich Film Festival.

ANKARA, Turkey -- Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Tuesday (October 7th) Turkey's army could launch a cross-border operation into northe...

October 8/08We arrived in Palmyra via a public bus which took us approximately 3 1/2 hours to get there from Aleppo. Palmyra was a major stop along the Silk Road. The City of Palms is actually an oasis known to

Our journey today took us to Crac des Chevaliers, Syria's #1 tourist attraction. Perched high up on a hill overlooking the Christian Valley, the Crac or castle, is a medieval fortress right out of the movie, "Kingdom of Heaven".For those

The four hostages held by the group are Alann Steen, 48, Jesse Turner, 39, and Robert Polhill, 54, all Americans, and Mithileshwar Singh, 60, an Indian. All are lecturers at Beirut University College and were seized...

According to a former government official, Lawless has worked in the operations directorate of the Central Intelligence Agency until several years ago. Lawless had served in the United States Embassy in South Korea...

Supernatural powers of witches are believed to be at the heart of almost everything that brings sorrow, pain or shame, death, illness, insanity, impotence, barrenness, crop failure, accidents...

US2008@At this point I asked if she had read the Sun Tzu. She said she hadn't so I continued with a brief introduction and suggested that the answer to the question could lie in out-of-the-box thinking where we...

Hiroshima, Oct 9, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Mazda Motor Corporation has confirmed that the sedan version of the all-new Mazda3 (known as Mazda Axela in Japan), fully redesigned for the first time in 5 years, will be revealed at

Tokyo, Oct 9, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Building on their successful partnership on the joint process technology development since 1998, Panasonic Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp. are now collaborating on the development of elemental process technologies for SoCs of

Toughening his stand against migrants, the MNS supremo said that his party would launch more intense agitation on the issue.

Bajrang Dal convenor Prakash Sharma insisted that his outfit could not be compared with SIMI as is being done by some political parties.

Sourav Ganguly said he decided to retire to save himself from further humiliation of being treated as the 'sacrificial goat' all the time while others are spared.

Weeks after carrying out a bloody suicide bombing in the heart of Pakistan's capital, suspected militants struck again on a high security police complex in Islamabad and also hit a jail van in NWFP, killing 16 and injuring ten.

In a major shift from its policy, the Telugu Desam Party for the first time took a pro-Telangana stand and said it was in favour of bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

Two of the 20 suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists arrested by Mumbai police are alleged to have orchestrated the serial blasts in Hyderabad in 2007 which claimed over 40 lives.

The national capital, infamous for crime against women, has been polled in a survey as the most unsafe city for them.

The Centre has decided to delink the amendments required in the Life Insurance Corporation of India Act 1956 from the Insurance Laws Bill 2006, recently cleared by the GoM, chaired by external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee.

India has dropped in its global competitiveness ranking to the 50th place, while neighbouring China has improved its ranking to the 30th spot in the latest list compiled by the World Economic Forum.

The financial bailout package in the US, supposed to calm global markets, has produced exactly the opposite results.