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The Obama administration, battling a foreclosure crisis that shows no signs of relenting, will step up pressure on mortgage companies to do more to help people remain in their homes, officials said yesterday. The administration will announce its expanded program tomorrow, a Treasury spokeswoman said, and will take "additional steps...

The UAE got behind domestic and foreign banks in troubled Dubai today, with its central bank setting up a "liquidity facility" on the eve before battered global markets were to re-open after a holiday break. The move was widely seen as countering the perception that Dubai might be the first...

The Iranian government approved a plan today to build 10 industrial scale uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion of the program in defiance of UN demands it halt enrichment. The decision comes only days after the UN nuclear watchdog agency censured Iran over its program and demanded it halt the...

Pakistan's main opposition party demanded today that President Asif Ali Zardari relinquish much of his power amid calls for the unpopular leader to assume a ceremonial role or resign. Zardari inherited sweeping powers from military dictator Pervez Musharraf, and had promised to return them to the prime minister—but has...

It only sounds like a Judd Apatow movie: A 24-year-old has opened a "School of Pot" in Michigan to teach everything from growing techniques to special brownie recipes. The $485, six-week program gives students the rundown on botany basics as well as preparation techniques. The New York Times reports that...

Swiss voters approved a move to ban the construction of minarets in a vote today on a right-wing initiative that labeled the mosque towers as symbols of militant Islam, early projections showed. The Swiss looked to have swung from only 37% supporting the proposal a week ago to 59% in...

Obama may want to strike "be more transparent" from his list of New Year's resolutions: He's decided not to release millions of pages of military documents on Dec. 31, as was previously scheduled. Officials say the delay is due to problems between the administration and various spy agencies, who say...

The couple who infamously crashed President Barack Obama's first state dinner are peddling their story to broadcast networks for hundreds of thousands of dollars, a television executive says. The executive told the AP that representatives for Michaele and Tareq Salahi contacted networks to urge them to "get their bids in"...

With one in eight Americans now using food stamps and 20,000 more signing up each day, "nutritional assistance" is becoming a normal part of American life rather than a shameful secret, reports the New York Times . In analyzing local data, the paper found that in 239 counties—as large...

A Hyderabad-bound Indigo flight received a bomb threat from an anonymous caller on Sunday night, forcing authorities to take up emergency measures and evacuate the passengers at the airport in New Delhi. The 164 people on board the plane, including five crew members, were safely evacuated and the aircraft was moved to the isolation bay, officials said.

Nuclear officials are trying to calm fears about a possible radiation leak after an accident at an atomic plant in Karnataka. They say there was no radioactive leak, and most people affected are safe and the environment around the plant unaffected. But what’s more worrying is that an insider hand is suspected in what is being seen as a case of sabotage.

A key official in Mayawati’s government, Harminder Raj Singh or Harry, as he was fondly called, was on Sunday flown to Delhi for his cremation. Early on Sunday morning, he shot himself with a gun. He was a Principal Secretary in the Housing Department, which is responsible for all multi-crore housing projects across the state.

Sources have told NDTV that a three-member team, led by an Additional Secretary in the Home Ministry, will visit West Bengal on Monday to assess the law and order situation in the state. The team will meet state government officials and also visit some districts.

It has now been 25 years since the Bhopal gas tragedy claimed thousands of lives. But a quarter of a century later, it is not about memories alone. The event that changed the face of a city, is an ongoing tragedy. On Ground Zero, a political-corporate cover-up game has become the biggest obstacle in bringing justice. The Bhopal gas tragedy is part of school […]