Palash Ghosh

The AP's Twitter feed was hacked, reportedly by a group called the Syrian Electronic Army.

The false report also caused a brief panic on Wall Street.

The average house price in the United Kingdom is currently 163,943 pounds ($249,833), according to mortgage lender Halifax.

Francois Hollande is likely to sign the bill after it moves through any challenges to the constitutional council.

An informal, one-handed greeting is considered rude in South Korea.

During her spy career for the North Korean regime, she blew up a South Korean airliner which killed 115 people.

Devi -- who, amazingly, had no formal education -- displayed her amazing computational powers.

Clichés are rife in our speech patterns.

The new policy dramatically reverses a birth control program the government introduced in the early 1990s. But will it work?

Service between Boston and New York will only be restored after Amtrak receives permission from law enforcement authorities.

The Boston bombing suspects' Chechen origins have turned the spotlight on a small community. Fewer than 1,000 live in the U.S.

While Indians account for less than 1 percent of the total U.S. population, they represent about 9 percent of all the country’s physicians.

Dzhokhar, 19, remains at large and is now the target of huge police manhunt in the Boston area.

Kimura is not only the oldest person in the world; he is also believed to be the longest-lived human being in recorded history.

More than 8,000 Bangladeshis now call the Bronx, a borough of New York City, home.

U.S. President Barack Obama spoke at an interfaith gathering at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston’s South End.

People from South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, are sometimes targeted by those who mistake them for Arabs.

When I was a kid, there were basically two types of people who wore backpacks: young folks traveling across Europe, or hardy souls embarking on a camping or mountaineering expedition. In both of these cases, backpacks served as a cheap and practical way to transport necessary items for arduous trips.

The Texas City incident remains the deadliest industrial accident in American history.

Former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf has been placed under arrest -- or has he?

Some 70 percent of Pakistan’s rural population is illiterate, with even higher rates for women.

There are some three million undocumented foreign workers in Saudi Arabia.

While watching coverage of the carnage in Boston, it again struck me why I almost never bother watching TV broadcast news reports. Whether it's NBC or ABC or CNN or Fox, they all give a very simplified version of events that seems to trivialize the underlying story.

Nicolas Maduro's big bushy black moustache has become a kind of ‘trademark’ for the new leader of Venezuela,

Baluchistan holds large reserves of gas, as well as gold, cooper, uranium and oil, it also enjoys a 600-mile coastline.

Al-Chalabi was convicted in connection with a plot to attack U.S. and other Western targets in Jordan in 2003.

Playboy magazine, as well as other Western adult magazines, remains illegal in India under existing laws governing obscenity.

Musharraf’s attorney said he will appeal the electoral officials’ decision in the nation’s highest court.

TTP has been blamed for some of the deadliest terror attacks on Pakistani government and military targets.