MUMBAI: Tata Motors said Monday that it would not start work at the site for the factory to build the low-cost Nano car model, where work was suspended last week, until it was confident of smooth operations and the continued viability of the project.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: The electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. It also figures in the dreams of newspaper publishers struggling with rising production and delivery costs, lower circulation and decreased ad revenue from their printed product.

MIAMI: Hurricane Ike barreled west across central Cuba on Monday after raising the death toll and destruction across the already beleaguered islands of the waterlogged Caribbean.

SYDNEY: Australia's potential to become to the global uranium market what Saudi Arabia is to oil is under the threat of legislation that would outlaw uranium mining over an area five times the size of

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The California Senate has approved a bill intended to discourage the kind of sprawling suburbs and crawling traffic that have long characterized the communities where many of the state's 38 million pe

SAHARSA DISTRICT, India: Indian authorities rushed doctors and medical equipment to flood-devastated northern India on Monday to ward off outbreaks of disease among the hundreds of thousands of victim

The massive effort to clear the skies over Beijing for the Summer Olympics paid off, the city's environmental authority said Monday, with the capital seeing its cleanest air in a decade.

BEIJING: Rescuers appealed for temporary housing and tents Monday after a weekend earthquake in southwest China killed at least 38 people, injured hundreds and left tens of thousands of homes in ruins

NEW ORLEANS: Strong winds and rain began to lash the Gulf Coast early Monday as Hurricane Gustav continued its path toward the coast of Louisiana, where the center of the storm was expected to make la