Palash Ghosh

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

Apr 23, 2013

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

Apr 23, 2013

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

Apr 23, 2013

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

Apr 23, 2013

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

Apr 23, 2013

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

Apr 23, 2013

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

Apr 22, 2013

Clichés are rife in our speech patterns.

Apr 22, 2013

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

Apr 22, 2013

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

Apr 19, 2013

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

Apr 19, 2013

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.

Apr 19, 2013

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

Apr 19, 2013

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

Apr 19, 2013

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

Apr 19, 2013

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

Apr 18, 2013

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

Apr 18, 2013

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.

Apr 18, 2013

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

Apr 18, 2013

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

Apr 18, 2013

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

Apr 18, 2013

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

Apr 17, 2013

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.

Apr 17, 2013

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

Apr 17, 2013

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

Apr 17, 2013

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

Apr 16, 2013

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

Apr 16, 2013

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

Apr 16, 2013

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

Apr 16, 2013