UN Security Council members vote on broader military and financial sanctions on Iran The US has warned India to honour UN sanctions against Iran after its foreign secretary criticised “unilateral” measures against Tehran over suspicions it is developing a nuclear weapons programme. Phillip J. Crowley, a spokesman for the US State Department, said it was for... 

The S-400 long-range missile defense system.‎ Russia is planning to install two modern anti-missile defense systems on its border with North Korea, an employee of the Russian Defense Ministry says. Russia has expressed “concern” since a row erupted between North and South Korea after the latter blamed the North of torpedoing its warship near the two countries’... 

An Indian woman gave birth to a baby in the lavatory of an international passenger plane and tried to dispose of it down the toilet, media reports in New Delhi said on Thursday. The infant was found stuck in the toilet after the plane landed in Amritsar, northern India, and was rushed to hospital still attached to the toilet bowl, police and doctors told the Press... 

A Tokyo court on Wednesday convicted a New Zealand activist of assault and obstructing Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic Ocean, and sentenced him to a suspended prison term. Peter Bethune was also found guilty on three other charges: trespassing, vandalism and possession of a knife. He had pleaded guilty to all but the assault charge when his trial started... 

In this file photo taken May 25, 2010, a dozen labor activists throw paper money in front of paper figures representing Chinese employees of Foxconn Technology Group, who recently died in China, outside the Foxconn office in Hong Kong. Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make... 

A first rate crisis is brewing in and around the Korean Peninsula that may well come to a head this week. The escalation of military tensions in the Yellow Sea that separates the Korean Peninsula from the Chinese mainland is likely to take two pathways – one originating in Pyongyang and the other in Beijing – or both. As Washington and Seoul respond with... 

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday about 270,000 cars sold worldwide — including luxury Lexus sedans — have potentially faulty engines, the latest quality lapse to hit the automaker following massive global recalls of top-selling models. Japan’s top-selling daily Yomiuri said in its evening edition that Toyota will inform the transport ministry of a recall... 

Chinese researcher and data analyst Zhao Bowen in the lab of BGI, which has insulated itself from the government's dictates. Last year, Zhao Bowen was part of a team that cracked the genetic code of the cucumber. These days, he’s probing the genetic basis for human IQ. Zhao is 17. Centuries after it led the world in technological prowess — think gunpowder,... 

A Chinese bestseller entitled The Currency War describes how Jews are planning to rule the world by manipulating the international financial system. The book is reportedly read in the highest government circles. If so, this does not bode well for the international financial system, which relies on well-informed Chinese to help it recover from the current crisis. Such... 

China is set to become the world's biggest manufacturer next year The US remained the world’s biggest manufacturing nation by output last year, but is poised to relinquish this slot in 2011 to China – thus ending a 110-year run as the number one country in factory production. The figures are revealed in a league table being published on Monday by IHS Global Insight,... 

It was on a terrace between two paddy fields like this that Balinese teenager Ngurah Alit was caught having intercourse with a cow, who he claimed had flirted with him. It was reported that a Balinese teenager, Ngurah Alit, 18, was caught having intercourse with a cow. Because of the act of bestiality, Alit was forced to marry the cow. Alit ended up passing out on Friday... 

JAKARTA, Indonesia – where is the earthly habitats heading to? We have read about child-kidnapping and child-trafficking but 2-year-old smoker. No! Shocking report of 2-year-Old Sumatran kid Ardi Rizal’s an addicted Child-smoker goes berserk if he can’t light up in Southeast Asia nation, Indonesia is the latest shocknig strange trend in the world today. According... 

Chinese 3-year-Old Ya Wen Is Addicted To Cigarettes & Beer After Van Smash New York [RR] Beijing—the shocking Indonesia addicted Kid smoker is not alone these days. China has Ya Wen addicted kid smoker as a competitor. Reports say that she “puts yet another cigarette to her lips and takes a long, hard drag – at just three years old”. Chinese addicted Kid... 

Children of the Kalash tribe in Northern Pakistan For centuries, the blond-haired, blue-eyed people of the Kalash tribes of North West Pakistan have lived a libertine lifestyle. The group, believed to be descendants of Alexander the Great’s invading army, were shielded from conservative Islam by the steep slopes of their remote valleys. While Sikhs, Hindus, and... 

South Korean activists protest Israeli President Shimon Peres's visit to Seoul, June 10, 2010. Israeli President Shimon Peres has received a chilly welcome in South Korea from dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters denouncing the visit by the “killer.” The activists gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Seoul on Thursday to protest Israel’s fatal...