Brazil and the US have signed a military cooperation pact.

China will launch its second lunar exploration mission this year to test key landing technologies as well as take high-resolution images of the landing area, China Daily reported Tuesday.

The Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company has decided to infuse Rs.300 crore this fiscal for operational expansion.

Russia has launched a special social  networking site to encourage interaction among Information and Technology (IT) professionals.

A British school is finding it difficult to cope with 39 different languages spoken by its pupils and it is now looking for multi-lingual volunteers, a media report said Tuesday.

A commercial plane operated by Merpati Airline Tuesday skidded off the runway and plunged into a river near an airport in Indonesia's Papua province, injuring 20 people on board, police said.

 France will not give up its nuclear weapons because doing so would jeopardise the country's "security and safety", President Nicolas Sarkozy has said.

Minister of State for External Affairs Minister Shashi Tharoor Tuesday denied that he called up Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi requesting him not to reveal the name of the stakeholders of the consortium that won the franchise of the Kochi team.

Forty militants and four soldiers were killed Monday in fresh clashes in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, government officials said.