Palash Ghosh

"Steptoe" regularly drew a national audience of 14 million viewers, and sometimes reached a peak of 20 million.

Parvez Rasool wants to be judged only according to his athletic skills, not questioned about his political loyalties.

The abuse of alcohol – both legal and illegal – by people of all ages is a serious problem across all of Kenya.

The document from the Islamabad government unearthed other strange and fascinating details of Osama bin Laden’s secret life in Pakistan.

Long before the British voyaged 6,000 miles to India, Portuguese sailors established a colony in India.

The temple at Bodh Gaya lies at the very heart of the Buddhist faith.

Andy Murray is the first Briton to win the Wimbledon’s men’s singles title in 77 years.

Adly Mansour becomes interim president as thousands celebrate for a second night in Cairo Square; Obama doesn't call ousting a "coup."

Egypt's president Mohammed Morsi, the army and anti-government protesters are in the middle of a serious political crisis.

Ironically, last year, Miccoli participated in a charity soccer match designed to honor the memory of anti-Mafia prosecutors Borsellino and Falcone.

De Klerk, 77, the last white president of South Africa before the fall of apartheid, shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela in 1993.

Like their counterparts in Western Europe, Mongolian Nazis shave their heads, stomp around in jackboots, sport swastika tattoos and don SS-style apparel.

Blacks in Britain are subject o "routine" street searches at five times the rate of white people.

Gandolfini, who brilliantly played conflicted North Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano, became a reluctant superstar.

Nelson Mandela is widely regarded as a beloved peace icon, while Yasser Araft remains largely a pariah outside the Arab and Muslim world.

The George W. Bush Institute in Dallas and the White House both have declared that the concurrent trips to Africa by two US presidents was simply coincidental

Cameron’s comments on terrorism were timely, as they came in the wake of yet another militant attack that killed at least 53 people in Pakistan.

Honor killings are quite common in Pakistan, particularly in isolated areas like Gilgit-Baltistan.

Amina Cachalia came from a prominent family of South African Indian activists.

Local police are trying to determine if the deaths resulted from murder or suicide.

Should British-Asians support English sports clubs, even against the teams from India and Pakistan?

India and Bangladesh hope to stage peaceful, congenial border ceremonies, unlike the Pakistan frontier aggression and tension.

Chris Hani's killing shook the very foundations of the surging anti-apartheid movement, leading to many calls from blacks and others for retaliation and even a race war.

South Africa, which has an Indian community some 1.2 million strong, is a growing market for Bollywood films.

Obama is also scheduled to visit Senegal and Tanzania during his brief African sojourn

A surprising number of prominent global lawmakers like to smoke, although some do not do so up publicly.

Since 2001, the proportion of adolescents in Germany between the ages of 12 and 17 who smoke plunged from 27.5 percent to 12 percent.

Cecile Kyenge and Mario Balotelli are the two most prominent Italians of African descent and both have been subjected to unrelenting racist abuse.

Mamphela Ramphele hopes her Agang party will siphon votes away from the ruling ANC.