Recent years have seen a surge in the number of professional wingwomen, who are paid to help shy guys approach women in bars and clubs.
An Australian teenage boy was on Thursday jailed for 13 years by a court here for murdering Indian student Nitin Garg, a heinous crime that followed a slew of racist attacks on community members and sparked a diplomatic row with New Delhi.
A Russian court today suspended its verdict till December 28 on the demand for banning Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita, which a group linked to the Christian Orthodox Church has described as 'extremist'.
The President of Kazakhstan declared a state of emergency on Saturday in a town in the western oil-producing region of the country, where striking workers and the police fought the day before, leaving at least 11 people dead.
The domestic problems of Vladimir Putin also put into question his ambitious “Eurasian Union”, a foreign policy strategy which seeks to see Russia assert economic and political influence among key ex-Soviet Republics.
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, has died.
Thousands took to the streets of Moscow and St Petersburg for a second weekend of protests demanding a re-count of the vote and the government's resignation.
Some 3,000 protesters gathered on Saturday in Moscow’s Bolotnaya square for a rally against election violations as Russia’s Communist party nominated its leader to challenge Vladimir Putin in March presidential polls.
It started with a death in Tunisia, spread to Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Syria. But one year on, the youth revolt has gone truly global, challenging old power structures and bringing with it the promise of a change.
Today’s young Russians connect with the world on their laptops instead of around the fabled kitchen table, where their parents sat in Soviet times, the only place they could speak openly and safely.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the agitation against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu has been "overdone", and expressed hope that it would end soon as the government had gone "out of the way" to assure the villagers about the safeguards of the facility.
Russia’s opposition parties are bracing for new massive weekend rallies against election fraud following Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s rejection of protesters’ demands for a rerun.
A Pakistani parliamentarian has demanded that ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha should resign following the claims that he travelled to Arab countries to discuss a move to oust President Asif Ali Zardari.
A Russian fishing vessel with 32 crew members was in trouble and taking on water near Antarctica on Friday, with heavy sea ice hampering rescue efforts. Officials said it could be four or five days before anybody reaches the Sparta to try to rescue the crew.
The lives of around 100 white whales are in danger after they were trapped in ice near Russia's northeast peninsula, officials said on Wednesday.