Palash Ghosh

Taking an aggressive stance on corporate corruption offers political candidates a path to victory, especially for those facing close races.

Unmanned US drone attacks are killing too many innocent civilians in Pakistan and doing little too root out the militants they are supposed to be targeting, according to an independent report.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has again appeared at a U.N. General Assembly in New York, spewing an inflammatory speech and generally outraged and alienated anyone within hearing distance.

U.S. President Barack Obama delivered he following speech to the 2012 U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, has made innumerable outrageous comments over the years, particularly with respect to Israel and Jews.

North Korean parliament failed to announce a widely anticipated agricultural reform measure that would have allowed farmers to keep more of their crops.

Mobile phones, tablets, email software and other electronic communication devices is eroding people's ability to hand-write properly.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he doesn't take an Israeli attack threat seriously and is willing to negotiate the nuclear issue.

North Korea may allow farmers to keep more of their crop as an incentive to produce more food for the hungry nation.

Police in Moscow are probing the poisoning deaths of up to 70 dogs in local parks.

India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh delivered the following speech on Friday on the economic reforms that were unveiled last week.

Kate Middleton has been victimized, perhaps irrevocably, by the publication of her topless photos.

A French court has rejected a bid by animal rights advocates to ban bullfighting.

Hundreds of Syrians have fled to the Libyan city of Benghazi, almost 1,000 miles from Damascus, and many are desperate to raise money to survive.

Small business owners in India are striking over fears that the entry of global retail outlets would force them out of business.

During the peak of his violent criminal career in the 1950s and 1960s, Richardson employed gruesome torture tactics on his rivals as he fought with the equally notorious Kray Brothers for control of London’s rackets.

Watching people, I wonder and speculate about who they are, what they do for a living, what their lives are like, and what they worry about?

While the financial markets have improved substantially, the labor market has proven to be lackluster.

Santiago Carrillo, one of the last of Western Europe’s Communist icons, has died in Spain at the age of 97 from natural causes.

The high abortion rate of female fetuses has led to a dramatic gender imbalance in India -- over the 50-year period from 1961 to 2011, the number of girls born per 1,000 boys plunged from 976 to 914, according to the census.

Dylan comes across as incoherent, hostile, self-pitying and, well, not too bright

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted Myanmar democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, DC.

Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of the state of West Bengal, declared that her party, the All India Trinamool Congress ? currently the second largest segment of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition ? could no longer cooperate with the UPA.

The high abortion rate of female fetuses has led to a dramatic gender imbalance in India ? over the fifty-year period from 1961 to 2011, the number of girls born per 1,000 boys plunged from 976 to 914, according to the census.

More than 140 people are on death row in Indonesia ? about one-third of them foreigners ? and about half of the total languishing for drug-related offenses.

Like the rock industry itself, Rolling Stone fell into a state of self-satisfied lethargy and irrelevance.

Pakistan has ordered the shutdown of the video-sharing website YouTube in order to prevent any further violence related to the anti-Islamic film ?Innocence of Muslims.?

Chi published a huge spread of 150 photographs (covering 26 pages) of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing in a private chateau in Provence in the south of France.