Former Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson was named 'Manager of the Year' by League Managers Association (LMA) for guiding the Red Devils to their record 20th English Premier League title.

India and the United States will hold naval wargames under the Malabar series of exercises in the Indian waters this year.

The US government wants states to crack down more on people driving under the influence of alcohol by lowering the permitted blood-alcohol limit.

Myanmar President Thein Sein's landmark state visit to the United States could be delayed because of a cyclone threatening to strike his country's northwest coast, the government said on Wednesday.

Nawaz Sharif's decision to invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a "positive sign", the United States said and expressed its willingness to work with the new government in Pakistan.

Indian cities with population of more than one million may have a Municipal Police Service to handle day-to-day law and order if a Home Ministry proposal gets approval of the state governments.

Five migrant labourers were shot dead and few others were injured when suspected tribal militants indiscriminately fired upon them in a remote mining village in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills district, the police said on Tuesday.

Tornadoes tore through three Central American states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa with baseball-sized hail and wind blasts ripping roofs off homes and turning trees to matchsticks, as severe weather swept the region.

A meteor bright enough to be classified as a fireball lit up the night sky over eastern North America on Friday, providing a spectacle witnessed in at least 13 states, Washington, D.C. and two Canadian provinces, the American Meteor Society said.

Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said that Naxalism is strong only in those states where Congress is not in power.