Britain’s new Prime Minister David Cameron met with U.S. President Obama on Tuesday for the first time at the White House and discussed about the controversy related to the Lockerbie bomber’s release. This meeting sought to ease the transatlantic tensions and reaffirmed the relationship between the two countries. The British Prime Minister and Obama agreed [...]

Ahead of a big international conference which will be taking place this week in Afghanistan, a leaked blueprint has revealed how Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will declare that British troops will be slowly drawn out from the country in the period of next four years. The meeting will be held in the Afghanistan capital city [...]

Nicolas Sarkozy might be in trouble as he is currently investigated by French prosecutors. The problem seems to be that there was a secret funding of his election campaign, which was not legal. There are claims that Sarkozy received 150,000 euro from Liliane Bettencourt. The official response was that the claims were false and it [...]

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assured Israel on Tuesday of Washington’s commitment to its security and preventing Iran from producing nuclear weapons.He said the agreed resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks through U.S. mediation was a “real opportunity” for peace.Mr. Biden, who arrived on Monday, is the highest-ranking member of President Barack Obama’s administration to visit Israel, [...]

Poland’s presidential election produced no clear winner Sunday, preliminary exit polls showed. The leading candidate, interim President Bronislaw Komorowski, failed to garner more than 50 percent of the vote, which would have clinched victory in the first round of voting to replace President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a plane crash in April. However, [...]

Nepal’s embattled Prime Minister Madhav Kumar announced today  his resignation in a TV address to the nation to seek an end to the political impasse as he succumbed to intense pressure from the opposition Maoists to make way for a “consensus” national government.“I tender my resignation for the sake of consensus and to pave way [...]

Thousands of protesters rampaged through Canada’s largest city and its financial capital, unleashing an unprecedented fury of violence as world leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, gathered here for the G-20 summit Saturday. Toronto’s Eaton Centre – its most famous mall and tourist attraction in downtown – was shut down as store keepers and [...]

The Finnish government has done what no other nation has; it has made broadband Internet access a guaranteed legal right of its citizens. According to local reports, the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Helsinki has pushed through a law that will force telecommunications providers to offer high speed internet connections to all of the [...]

Former BCCI chief Sharad Pawar will take over as International Cricket Council President on July 1, becoming the second Indian, after Jagmohan Dalmiya, to occupy the top post.The ICC annual conference week beginning tomorrow will culminate with Pawar taking over as the seventh ICC President, succeeding Englishman David Morgan, who concludes his two-year term at [...]

The Commerce & Industry Ministry has released a new set of guidelines for the state government to follow a single window clearance system for special economic zone (SEZ) units and builders. The SEZ Act and Rules released earlier promised a mechanism of a single window clearance for developers and units.  But it could not be [...]