President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, selecting a woman who would be the court's first Hispanic justice and a liberal who is unlikely to change its ideological balance. Sotomayor, 54, is a U.S....

Deccan Chargers skipper Adam Gilchrist has attributed his underdog team's fairytale title-triumph at the Indian Premier League to a "culture of learning from mistakes" and playing a "smarter brand" of Twenty20 cricket. "Just trying to create the culture of learning...

The US will find a way to cope securely with dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama has said. He described Guantanamo as a "misguided experiment", but conceded some of those held still posed a threat to the US....

The Tamil Tigers have for the first time acknowledged the death of their founder and leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran, whose body the Sri Lankan military displayed as proof it had won a quarter-century civil war. A statement from the remnants of...