June 15, 2013 Delhi: A decade ago what little publicity Narendra Modi achieved outside his home state was negative and his political career, barely begun, was on the verge of oblivion.

June 15, 2013 Archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology have discovered a lost mediaeval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1200 years ago.

June 15, 2013 As America marks the six-month anniversary of the massacre of 20 children and six adults in the hamlet of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut, gun control advocates have noted that another milestone has been reached - more Americans have died by the gun since then than the total number of US troops killed in Iraq.

June 15, 2013 Washington: US lawmakers have set out to puncture the claimed altruism of the man whose disclosure of top-secret surveillance programs have caused a storm in Washington, portraying him as a Beijing partisan in continuing US-China cyber wars.

June 15, 2013 There was as much shrugging as shock over Washington's latest leak.

June 15, 2013 Rupert Murdoch and his third wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, had been living as a married couple until a few weeks ago.

June 15, 2013 A mist-covered mountain in Cambodia gives up its treasure, writes Lindsay Murdoch.

June 15, 2013 Human genes will no longer be controlled by private companies in America after a landmark ruling by the country's highest court.

June 15, 2013 Scratched and exhausted, Damian Evans pushed through dense Cambodian jungle into a clearing where mountain villagers long ago attempted to grow rice, stepping onto a weed-covered mound.

June 14, 2013 Four people were confirmed dead in a shooting in an area of St. Louis housing small businesses, St. Louis Police said on their official Twitter feed.