Foreign exchange reserves rise to $16.41 billion in the week ended December 11.

Just over 50 per cent of the Irish people support multi-billion euro EU-IMF rescue package.

Many Indian and Pakistani novelists are finding their stints in finance may have helped ward off writer's block.

Leaked cables show Rahul Gandhi believes radical Hindu groups are a bigger threat to India than Muslim militants.

Leaked cables reveal ICRC provided diplomats with evidence of systematic use of torture by Indian forces in Kashmir.

European champions defeat South Korean Seongnam 3-0.

For the second consecutive year "whatever" beats "like" to top poll as most annoying word in the English language.

Obama administration reviews overhauled Afghanistan strategy, finds Taliban momentum arrested in many areas.

India, China agree on ambitious target of $100 billion in trade between the rising Asian powers by 2015.

Beijing says it is supplying the reactors under the 2003 agreement.