A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation.

Jammu, Jan 11 (IANS) There was an exchange of fire between the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and either militants or Pakistani Rangers in Kanachak sector, near Akhnoor along the international border, BSF sources said Monday.  

North Korea said Monday it wants a peace treaty with the United States as a precondition for giving up its nuclear weapons, and called for sanctions to be scrapped before it returns to disarmament talks.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said he is ready to hold a dialogue with members of al-Qaeda, whose local branch was behind a plot to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day, if they renounce violence.  

Slain Indian student Nitin Garg has been farewelled in a funeral service after his body was flown home to his family. Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to the student whose body has been cremated near his family's home in the northern s

Attackers firebombed three churches in the southeast Asian nation of Malaysia overnight, assaults that come amid widespread Muslim ire over a court ruling that allowed Christians to use the word Allah as a term for God.

Japan, NZ meet over whaling clash

The Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect organised a conference under the banner “War on Terror Week” as he immersed himself in radical politics while a student in London, The Times has learnt.