Lakhisarai/ Patna: Maoists Monday released the three abducted Bihar policemen in Lakhisarai district, bringing an end to the nine-day-old hostage crisis

Cairo: Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, has accused Egypt’s government of being behind the publication of private photographs of his daughter in an attempted smear.ElBaradei, a potential presidential candidate in the coming elections, said the regime was leading a defamat

BERLIN: Germany’s coalition government has decided to extend the life span of the country’s nuclear power plants by an average of 12 years, officials say.Under the agreement, some plants will now remain in production until the 2030s, instead of being phased out by 2021 as the previous government wan

Jerusalem: Israeli Finance Ministry has issued a tender asking commercial airlines to design an advanced airplane having features similar to the Air Force One, the Boeing aircraft used to ferry the US president

Washington: As many as 2,000 additional troops -- including a number of U.S. forces -- may be headed to Afghanistan in the coming weeks under a plan being proposed by Gen. David Petraeus, CNN has learned