NEW YORK : Crude oil prices climbed on Monday, lifted in part by supply concerns after fog forced the shutdown of a shipping channel serving a Texas port. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in March, climbed

NEW YORK : US stocks finished lower on Monday amid scant market-moving news as vehicle maker Chrysler announced it was shutting four plants due to a dispute with a parts supplier. The administration of President George W. Bush meanwhile unveiled

NEW YORK : The US dollar traded mixed on Monday as a calming of global equity markets prompted traders to resume riskier "carry trades" involving the Japanese yen. The euro gained ground as traders predicted the European Central Bank would

NDJAMENA : Tens of thousands of civilians were fleeing Chad's capital on Monday, as rebels threatened a fresh offensive to oust President Idriss Deby after two days of heavy fighting saw them pull out of the city. In New York,

MADRID: Formula One heavyweights Renault signed up Japanese pilot Sakon Yamamoto on Monday to be a test driver. The 25-year-old has Formula One experience having driven in 14 Grand Prixes for minnows Super Aguri and Spyker. "We are happy to

Russia will try and block Kosovo's independence at an international level, if the Serb province announces its sovereignty, a senior Russian MP said on Monday. "Russia should use every opportunity at ...

The LTTE having suffered defeat after defeat in the face of the relentless advance of the Security F..

Twelve civilians were killed and 17 were injured yesterday around 3.40 p.m. when the LTTE triggered ..

We cannot offer solutions to the problem in the North and East as experiments but what could be impl..

Seventeen Tamil civilians, majority of them workers at business establishments and staying in lodges..

Oil, hitherto held sacred, and a strong bargaining chip would soon claim its power slot in this gove..

A portrait of former President Ranasinghe Premada will be unveiled by President Mahinda Rajapakse on..

Schools are without heating, no books and no paper due to the total blockade against Israeli civilians in Gaza. The UN warns that stocks of essential goods are diminishing. Abnormally low temperatures exacerbate the problem.

I have come to know that the PPP leaders have stated they will provide evidence only to the UN investigators. Taking this opportunity, I urge them to provide the evidence, if any, to the investigating team as it would help

Pakistan's caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan today urged slain former premier Benazir Bhutto's party to hand over any evidence it had about her assassination to the team investigating the suicide attack on here at Rawalpindi in December. "I have

Feb 05, New York: The world famous cultural troupe of the Sri Lanka defense forces will perform in New York on February 24th.

OTTAWA — Poland will share two helicopters with Canada in southern Afghanistan. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced the commitment in a speech Monday morning in Ottawa. "Poland is unequivocally committed to a reinvigorated NATO," Sikorski said.

The $588.3 billion in Pentagon spending for 2009 that President Bush proposed to Congress on Monday includes only part of the cost of fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Raids by Afghan and NATO troops against Taliban insurgents in southern and southwestern Afghanistan killed several civilians, among them children, local officials said Monday.

A senior lawmaker in Germany's ruling Social Democrats voiced support for the deployment of German troops to southern Afghanistan on Monday, breaking ranks with the government over a mission that is contested at home.