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Israeli entertainer Dudu Topaz — whose turbulent struggle to deal with his waning stardom enthralled the country — died Thursday after apparently hanging himself in the shower of his jail cell, prison officials said. He was 62.
The United States has complained to Israel over rules that keep Palestinian-Americans from entering Israel, officials said Thursday.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sworn in for a second term Friday, even as talks broke down between his party and a key coalition partner.
A leading "untouchable" politician vowed Sunday to take her party national in India's upcoming elections and challenge the country's two establishment parties.
Like his 16 previous incarnations, this Karmapa Lama has spent his life immersed in the Tibetan Buddhist arts of meditation, study and prayer. Unlike them, he likes to relax playing war games on his PlayStation.
India's election campaign is going to the "Slumdogs."
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh successfully underwent heart bypass surgery Saturday, doctors said, adding that he would be fit to campaign for upcoming elections.
A 7-month-old wild tiger died Tuesday in a central Indian zoo, two days after veterinarians tried to save the cub with a rare blood transfusion, officials said.
Tradition in this Buddhist Himalayan kingdom says that the people pay homage to a new king by lining up with the gift of a white scarf. Their new monarch, however, was having none of it.
A Roman Catholic nun who accused a Hindu mob of raping her said Friday that she will not cooperate with local police, alleging that they stood by idly during the attack.
India launched its first mission to the moon Wednesday, rocketing a satellite up into the pale dawn sky in a two-year mission to redraw maps of the lunar surface.
Indian police have arrested a founder of the little-known Islamic militant group that has claimed responsibility for a wave of bombings that killed more than 120 people in three northern Indian cities this year, authorities said Wednesday.
India has begun talks with U.S. companies on purchasing nuclear technology and equipment, although a U.S.-Indian civil nuclear cooperation accord is still awaiting approval in Congress, an Indian official said Thursday.
Spotting a family stranded on the roof of a partly submerged house, two Indian navy commandos swept in over the muddy floodwaters in a black rubber dinghy to save them Wednesday — only to be shooed away.
In the two weeks since a monsoon-swollen river burst its banks, ancient prejudices have run just as deep as the floodwaters. India's "untouchables" are the last to be rescued — if at all — from a deluge that has killed dozens and made 1.2 million homeless.
Hungry villagers rioted, desperate families swam for their lives and chaos spread across a wide swath of flooded plains in northern India Tuesday as authorities mounted one of the country's largest relief efforts.
India's Supreme Court on Wednesday halted a lower court order lifting a ban on an Islamic group that authorities have repeatedly blamed for a string of deadly bombings.
Indian lawmakers gathered Monday to debate a vote of confidence in the government that will likely determine the fate of a landmark civilian nuclear deal with the United States.
It was supposed to be a heartwarming tale of a man who brought an orphaned bear cub home from the forests of India to console his 6-year-old daughter, who had just lost her mother.
This battered harbor town on Sri Lanka's southern tip, with its scrawny men selling even scrawnier fish, seems an unlikely focus for an emerging international competition over energy supply routes that fuel much of the global economy.
India's widespread practice of aborting female fetuses is a "national shame," the prime minister said Monday, insisting the country can no longer ignore the problem if it wants to be a modern nation.
Nearly six decades of struggle against the might of China has taught the Tibetans one thing: Ask the world for little, expect less.
Tibetan exiles saw a chance to put China on the spot ahead of the Beijing Olympics, but never expected their protests to spread to Tibet and turn violent. Now the Dalai Lama is threatening to quit if his people don't return to peaceful resistance.
India's Hindu hard-liners are showing no love for Valentine's Day. A few dozen protesters briefly blocked a road in downtown New Delhi on Wednesday, burning Valentine's Day cards and chanting "Down with Valentine." In the nearby city of Lucknow, extremists threatened to beat up couples found celebrating their love.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the iconic guru who sought to blend Eastern spirituality and Western science to harness the mind's power and heal the world, was cremated Monday in a tumultuous ceremony at one of Hinduism's holiest sites.
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