White House knew of damaging IRS audit weeks before it became ...

Former general Thein Sein on Monday becomes the first Burma president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years, crowning a dramatic diplomatic rehabilitation for his nation after years of international isolation. But activists are angry ...

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. offered few new details Wednesday on Capitol Hill about the Justice Departments decision to secretly obtain journalists phone records, as the White House began pushing for a federal media shield law in an apparent ...

Pakistans former president General Pervez Musharraf was arrested on Friday from his farm house on the outskirts of the city and shifted to police headquarters after a court sent him to transit remand ahead of his appearance before an anti-terrorism court on ...

The warning by Army General Martin Dempsey came hours before President Barack Obama asked military leaders at a White House meeting to get the problem of sexual assaults under control. Obama met with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Dempsey and other ...

Actor Sanjay Dutt is feeling 'suffocated' in his egg-shaped high-security anda cell, which is generally used to house terror suspects and hardcore criminals, at the Arthur Road Jail in central Mumbai. He pleaded to a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court on Friday to shift him to another cell as he is not a terrorist. Rizwan Merchant, counsel for Dutt, made an oral plea before the court in Mumbai to shift the actor to some other cell, saying, "he feels suffocated in this ...

A Moscow court today put the head of Societe Generale SA (GLE)'s Russian unit under house arrest for two months on charges of commercial bribery, his lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov said by phone. OAO Rosbank Chief Executive Officer Vladimir Golubkov was ...

As it heads into a general election and unable to pass the food security bill, the UPA is preparing to keep the needy well fed by making more quantities of subsidised grains available to those slightly above the poverty line.

The first general elections in Pakistan that will usher in a smooth democratic transfer of power in 66 years is likely to go down to the wire with no party expected to get a majority.

Attorney General Eric Holder is facing what is likely to be aggressive questioning by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on topics ranging from the Justice Department's gathering of