So-called "yellow vest" anti-government protests swept France over the last fortnight were sparked initially by a rise in taxes on diesel
Leaders of the emerging world will discuss the creation of a new development bank at a summit shadowed by protests against the Chinese president.
Israeli diplomats have been targeted by bomb attacks in Delhi and Tbilisi with two people injured in the Indian capital when an embassy car exploded.
India hailed "extremely positive" peace talks with Pakistan on Monday with both countries looking to build on a recent warming in relations.
India’s fake pilot scandal began unravelling when a captain landed her packed airliner on the nose instead of the rear wheels.
In transport as in many things in India, the old exists alongside the new, providing tourists with numerous entertaining ways to travel in bygone style.
Indian police on Wednesday questioned the top organiser of the Delhi Commonwealth Games as part of a corruption probe into the tainted October event.
New Zealand underlined their status as the team to beat at the Commonwealth Games rugby sevens on Tuesday as they crushed Wales to enter the semis.
From a "toxic" pool to empty stadiums and faulty boxing scales, the first week of the New Delhi Commonwealth Games has served up daily blunders.
Thousands of tickets remained unsold for the Delhi Commonwealth Games Wednesday, just four days before they begin, with the troubled event also hit by another pullout from a star…
Delhi authorities are to deploy a contingent of langurs — a large type of monkey — at Commonwealth Games venues to help chase away smaller simians.
The Delhi Games faced dire warnings on Thursday of a mass pull-out by teams as organisers worked frantically to save the event from disaster.
The Delhi Commonwealth Games were plunged into crisis after the athletes’ village was described as "uninhabitable" and a footbridge collapsed.
For those looking for the next spiritual leader of Tibet after the Dalai Lama, the ageing monk’s 75th birthday ceremony this month offered some clues.
The Dalai Lama turned 75 on Tuesday, a milestone marked by celebrations in his hometown-in-exile but tinged by sadness.
Indian newspapers vented outrage on Tuesday at two-year prison terms handed down to the local managers of the company blamed for the Bhopal disaster.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse vowed on Monday to ensure the first post-war nationwide election goes off peacefully.
Leading cellphone makers had good news for anyone with a drawer full of old phone chargers on Tuesday: the industry plans to standardise the device.
Samsung unveiled the world’s first solar-powered cellphone, "Blue Earth", in front of curious crowds at an industry show in Barcelona on Monday.
Two weeks of anti-foreigner violence in South Africa have highlighted the growing disconnect between a public impatient for change and a governing party that claims a divine…
