Media in India highlight US President Barack Obama’s latest statement on religious freedom in India. Speaking at the White House National Prayer Breakfast, with the Dalai Lama in the audience,…

Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that doctors may help patients who have severe and incurable medical conditions to die, overturning a 1993 ban. In a unanimous decision, the court said…

Sony Pictures’ Amy Pascal has stepped down as co-chair of Sony’s movie studio following a debilitating cyber attack that revealed her private emails. Ms Pascal will start a production company…

Soon after he took the helm at drinks giant Diageo, Paul Walsh played an unusual trick in meetings. The former chief executive used to pretend that he wasn’t the boss,…

These days it is not enough just to be a millionaire to count yourself as one of the super-rich – you need to be worth between $50-100m (£33m-£66m). While $50m…

It was a hot and humid day when a shark alarm rang out across Australia’s most famous beach, scaring swimmers out of the water at Bondi, Sydney. The shark sightings…

Stealthily they cut off the electricity line to Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office early yesterday and stealthily they restored it later at night, leaving the BNP chief without power over 19…

Two pilots have surpassed the world distance and duration records with a flight across the Pacific Ocean in a helium balloon. American Troy Bradley and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev left Japan…

King Salman of Saudi Arabia has announced a major cabinet reshuffle, a week after he acceded to the throne. The chief of intelligence and the head of the national security…

Media in India highlight the government’s “surprising” decision to remove foreign secretary Sujatha Singh from her post. Ms Singh was appointed as India’s top foreign service diplomat in August 2013….