Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered an investigation into official papers which suggest the British government of Margaret Thatcher helped India plan an attack against Sikh separatists in the Golden Temple at Amritsar in 1984.
The attack on Sikhism's holiest...
The U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) delivered rations to a record 3.8 million people in Syria in December, but civilians in eastern provinces and besieged towns near the capital remain out of reach, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
The agency...
U.S. stock index futures advanced on Tuesday, a day after the S&P 500 suffered its biggest drop in two months, as investors digested earnings from JPMorgan and Wells Fargo and prepared for retail sales data.
The benchmark S&P index .SPX...
Charter Communications Inc on Monday formally offered to acquire larger rival Time Warner Cable for $37.3 billion, sparking what is likely to be a contentious battle for control of the No. 2 U.S. cable operator.
Charter, the No. 4 cable...
Global shares fell on Tuesday as weak earnings pre-announcements in the United States fuelled worries that the upcoming reporting season may disappoint, leaving some indexes looking expensive after a bumper 2013.
The dollar steadied against a basket of six major...
Google Inc took its biggest step to go deeper into consumers' homes, announcing a $3.2 billion deal to buy smart thermostat and smoke alarm-maker Nest Labs Inc, scooping up a promising line of products and a prized design team...
Year 2013 has been phenomenal in the political annals of Nigeria’s nationhood given that it was one particular year whereby scholars on Nigerian affairs believed substantially that real governance took flight while mundane and quarrelsome politics took center stage.
While...
Benjamin Nweze sends the congregation to a mellifluous realm. In the realm, every cadence of his baritone executes them slowly. He sings so well that angels descend draping the church with green confetti of envy. He is a celestially...
Welcome to 2014. While many of us in developing nations are embroiled in trivial and non sequiturethnic, religious and political/governance battles, there is a new and most powerful ‘race’ that is slowly but steadily conquering the world and promising...
Someone should please tell governors and local government chairmen that the ground for them to celebrate the sinking of boreholes has been removed from them. Not that sinking of boreholes shouldn't be a part of their agenda nor should...