United Nations: About 16 million children across India, Bangladesh and Nepal are in urgent need of life-saving support due to "catastrophic" flooding ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping today asked BRICS members to shelve their differences and accommodate each other's concerns by enhancing mutual trust and...
Kenya's Supreme Court on Friday declared President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election win invalid due to irregularities committed by the election board and ord...
HUMAN-like footprints have been found stamped into an ancient sea shore fossilised beneath the Mediterranean island of Crete.They shouldn’t be there.T...
The world could be facing a food shortage in just 10 years, according to an agricultural data technology company.Gro Intelligence founder and chief ex...
A US police officer has been filmed on his own dashcam telling a white driver not to worry because "we only kill black people".The footage shows offic...
Five men have been acquitted of involvement in the murder of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi almost 10 years ago.The men ...
Hundreds of homes have been evacuated after intense wildfires swept through northern California.More than 1,600 firefighters are battling the so-calle...
The Holy Kaaba was adorned with a new cover (kiswa) on Arafat Day, Thursday. As part of an annual customary ceremony, the new black cloth was placed o...
Iraqi Prime Minister Hayder al-Abadi declared victory over Islamic State militants in Tal Afar and the entire province of Nineveh yesterday, despite c...
In the United States, the storm once known as Hurricane Harvey made its second landfall yesterday, resulting in record rains and flooding in a small T...
A 104-year-old Indonesian woman has expressed thanks to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman for being hosted by the Kingdom during the Hajj pilgrimage.Ibu Mari...
Nearly 200,000 Indians are performing Hajj this year. Of that number, 170,000 have come from India through the Hajj Committee of India (HCI).The remai...
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims began the annual Hajj pilgrimage on Wednesday, donning traditional white garments and heading to the tent city of Min...
Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif left for London on August 30 to see his ailing wife, Begum Kulsoom, amid speculation that he might not r...
A 24-year-old Indian student has died after he nearly drowned in a swollen lake in the US state of Texas where Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc.Nikhil B...
Facebook and Google own the top six apps with the highest reach and account for the top eight apps in the US, a new report has revealed.According to a...
In Nigeria, Boko Haram terrorists have kidnapped nine people in two separate attacks in which one person was killed and two injured in the country's v...
Harvey hurricane battered Texas for the fourth day today even as more heavy rains were expected to lash the region.The forecast has lowered hopes of r...
Pakistan said that any unilateral plans by India aimed at modifying the terms of the Indus Water Treaty will not be acceptable.Foreign Minister Khawaj...
New Delhi/Thimphu: Bhutan on Tuesday welcomed moves by India and China to withdraw troops from a strategic area which it claims as its territory, endi...
Apple is expected to launch its next flagship device iPhone 8 on September 12, a media report said.According to the Wall Street Journal, the company i...
An explosion occurred on a busy shopping street near the heavily-fortified US embassy in central Kabul on Tuesday, officials said, killing at least on...
The United Nations Security Council, UNSC, will meet today to discuss the latest North Korea missile launch.Reuters citing diplomats said, UNSC wastes...
In the United States, floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey, which has already killed at least seven people in Texas and was expected to drive tens o...
The Pentagon has confirmed that North Korea has launched a missile over Japan, in a major escalation by Pyongyang amid tensions over its weapons ambit...
US President Donald Trump will visit storm-ravaged Texas tomorrow, even as the administration ramps up its response to the most powerful hurricane to ...
A 13-year-old Indian-origin boy in the UK has got the highest possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test, placing him in the top one per cent people in ...
Two million Muslims from across the globe are converging on Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage, a religious duty and for some pilgrims the ...
An Afghan official says the number of people killed in an attack on a Shi'ite mosque in the Afghan capital during prayers is at least 28 - up from 20....
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