Geetha Pillai

US calls for caution while acknowledging Israel’s right to self-defence.

Aung San Suu Kyi is on a six-day visit to India, her first visit to the country in 25 years and is expected to meet school and college friends apart from political leaders.

Pentagon probing John Allen's emails to Jill Kelley, a friend of ex-CIA director David Petraeus.

The FBI teams carrying briefcases, plastic tubs and cardboard boxes reach Paula Broadwell's home.

Questions arise over David Petraeus's resignation, a week ahead of Benghazi US mission attack probe.

Natural gas explosion a line of inquiry, plane crash ruled out.

Powerful earthquake kills five construction workers and wrecks buildings.

FBI started probe on David Petraeus after agency tracked cyber complaint of threatening emails to Paula Broadwell, his biographer.

BBC Director General George Entwistle admits Newsnight report implicating senior Tory MP Lord McAlpine was wrong.

George Sabra, who took on Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad, to head anti-Assad group.

Majority of dead believed to be inmates

IAG plans to raise profits by at least €600m with restructuring plan.

Blasts at Neptune Technologies & Bioressources spark water and soil contamination fears.

EU and Japan found to be dumping steel tubes on China.

France's second largest bank, Societe Generale, posts 86 percent decline in profits.

Hu highlights, rich-poor divide, indiscipline and perils of lawlessness.

Hu Jintao stresses need for reform of political structure and making democracy more broad-based as once-in-a-decade leadership change gets under way.

Renminbi's ascendance as international reference currency depends on size and scale of new leadership's economic reforms.

New Coptic pope will be selected by a blindfolded altar boy.

Five-day meeting to focus on ways to form alternative Syrian government in exile.

The Ryugyong hotel, the tallest building in North Korea, will finally open 26 years after construction started.

NatWest freezes estate of disgraced presenter as victims get ready to sue.

Job cuts expected to affect nearly 16 percent of UBS's global workforce.

Metropolitan Police investigating Savile child abuse claims arrest former pop star Gary Glitter.

Harakah Sunni militants planned to hit American embassy, mining company HQ and shopping mall, say police.

The USGS records two aftershocks of 5.8 and 4.8 after the powerful earthquake of 7.7 which hit the coasts of western Canada.

Hurricane Sandy is expected to make landfall in the US east coast early next week.

Expulsion of Bo Xilai from Chinese legislature expected to speed up criminal proceedings against him.

Personal care and home care segments record strong growth in emerging markets.