Bhaskar Prasad

The weekend economic summit hosted by President Obama was infiltrated by a supporter of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain says that God told him to run for president.

The body of a 75-year-old man that was missing after Saturday's explosion in Ohio has been found, according to the Fairborn Fire Chief.

Several Indonesian Islamists held rallies in central Jakarta, to protest against the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama, scheduled for later this week.

A senior Iranian general was killed in a munitions blast at a base housing the country's elite Revolutionary Guards. A total of 17 soldiers were killed and 16 more injured and admitted to hospital, with at least one of the injured believed to be in a critical condition.

The smart feature on the new iPhone 4S is of course the Siri voice assistant, which is a fairly intelligent feature that lets users ask questions and receive answers. The future for Siri appears to be not to have to vocalize but rather simply think those questions.

German authorities arrested a man they say has ties to an underground neo-Nazi cell calling itself the “National Socialist Underground,” Federal prosecutors said in a statement. Holger G, 37, was arrested on suspicion of being a member of the National Socialist Underground since the late 1990s.

In the latest effort to assert control over lawless areas of the city ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics around 3,000 police and soldiers moved into one of Rio's largest slums Sunday.

Noted cricket writer Peter Roebuck was found dead Saturday at his hotel in South Africa, where he was covering Australia-South Africa Test series.

A Wall Street Journal survey of 52 economists has put the odds at 1-in-4 that the U.S. will experience a recession in the next 12 months. When the Journal put the question to the same group in September the odds were at 1-in-3.

A satellite monitoring group has reported that Sudan's military is upgrading its air bases in its Blue Nile state. This could be an indication of possible air strikes in the region along the country's border with South Sudan.

The Chinese government has issued a new order that bans the use of unverified information from Web sites and blogs in news pages and in the electronic media.

The ratings agency Standard & Poor's said Friday that its erroneous downgrade of France arose when an automatic email was sent out after an old Web page on French banks was changed. France reacted with outrage and has ordered an investigation into this shocking error.

Apparently, Swedish sperm donors are more stable, mature and have better social skills than the average Swedish man, according to the results of a new study.

On Day 3 of the Australian Open, Tiger Woods began with three straight bogeys after being unable to get up and down from behind the first and second greens.

A YouTube video showing a group of West Covina, Calif., police officers playing a practical joke on a driver has made city officials furious.

Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has released a steamy new ad encouraging people to go to the polls for the Dec. 4 parliamentary election.

Mexico's Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora, who was the country’s top security official in charge of the fight against drug cartels, was killed in a helicopter crash Friday.

The number of people who filed for unemployment benefits dropped to 390,000 in the week ending November 5, down 10,000 from the week before, which the lowest level since April.

New Jersey voters have passed a referendum to allow sports betting. A majority of those who voted were in favor of allowing casinos and race tracks the chance to place sporting bets, provided that the federal government repealed laws currently restricting it to just four states.

Following a joint investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and law enforcement agencies in Estonia and the Netherlands, an international gang who stole $14 million after hacking into at least 4 million computers in an online advertising scam has been arrested

There has been a possible sighting of the Ogopogo, which is Canada’s version of the Loch Ness monster, at Lake Okanagan in British Columbia.

Bellevue police have asked the mother of 2-year-old Sky Eliah Metalwala to come to the station and answer additional questions about her son's disappearance. The toddler was reported missing Sunday Nov. 6, 2011

The Aakash tablet computer, made in India and priced at $60, could well represent an outstanding value-for-money purchase, given its specifications and features.

Russia and China voiced their opposition to new round of sanctions against Iran in a meeting in Moscow. Russia and China have expressed “the mutual conviction that the application of new, additional sanctions against Iran will not lead to the desired result,” Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Former President Moshe Katsav has been ordered to spend seven years in prison by the Supreme Court of Israel while rejecting his appeal of a rape conviction and other sex crimes.

The report into the 2009 death of champion boxer Arturo Gatti by Dr. Jean Brochu, a Quebec coroner, has concluded that he died a violent death but clear evidence of foul play could not be found.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's departure was inevitable, a senior US official said on Wednesday.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik Thursday said that Ajmal Amir Kasab, who has been sentenced to death for the 2008 Mumbai attack, should be hanged. This could be a new strategy from the side of Pakistan which is trying to change the image it appears to have of a nation following double standards while dealing with the global concern about terrorism.