Geneva: President Pratibha Patil visited the prestigious France-based European Organisation for Nuclear Research, commonly known as CERN, where she patted Indian scientists for their contributions to cutting edge research work.
Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who for years pushed for reconciliation with the Taliban, now says attempts to negotiate with the insurgent movement are futile and efforts at dialogue should focus instead on neighbouring Pakistan.
Jerusalem: Israel expresses its support for the Middle East Quartet's plan to renew direct peace negotiations between the Jewish state and the Palestinian leadership "without any preconditions" within a month.
London: The government plans to introduce new rules to curb immigrants' rights to settle down permanently in the UK, a move likely to adversely impact thousands of Indians seeking to live in the country.
Dhaka: A Bangladeshi court is set to frame charges against 52 suspects, including ULFA chief Paresh Barua and top Islamist leader Matiur Rahman Nizami in the country's biggest ever arms smuggling case when 10-truck loads of arms destined for banned Indian separatist group were seized.
Islamabad: Amid mounting American pressure on Pakistan to do more to combat the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, the chief of the main Opposition party PML-N says the country was facing economic and political isolation despite the enormous sacrifices in the war against terrorism.
Stockholm: The committee that awarded the 2011 Nobel Medicine Prize was not aware that one of this year's laureates, Ralph Steinman of Canada, dies just days before Monday's announcement.
Islamabad: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has accepted Pakistan's invitation to visit the country, according to Commerce Minister Amin Fahim.
Stockholm: Three US-born scientists win the Nobel Prize in physics for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
United Nations: Pitching for a global convention to deal with the scourge of terrorism, India says adoption of the Comprehensive Convention against International Terrorism would provide a legal base for the fight against the global menace.
Stockholm: Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals, a mosaic-like chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible.
Stockholm: The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature is awarded to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him acclaim as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since World War II.
New York: Visionary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who revolutionised everyday technology from personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, dies at the age of 56 after a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
Oslo: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, her compatriot and "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman wins the Nobel Peace Prize today in a nod to women's empowerment.
Washington: Even as the unemployment rate Remains at 9.1% in September in the US, the White House denies the possibility of Double-Dip recession, but admitted the economic growth has slowed down.