US announces 138 million dollar aid to South Sudan
United States has announced 138 million dollar new aid to South Sudan. US Secretary of State John Kerry said the aid is meant for food, water, and med...
13 people shot, wounded at Connecticut party
A shooting at a crowded house party has left 13 people wounded, and police in Connecticut are investigating what they said is an unusual outburst of v...
20 people killed in Al-Shabab attack in Somalia
In central Somalia, at least 20 people died when two suicide car bombs rocked a local government building and a nearby market in Galkayo town in Puntl...
96 houses destroyed in California wildfire
At least 96 houses were destroyed in the huge ongoing Southern California wildfire, while firefighters made more progress containing the blaze. T...
Zika spreads to Miami Beach in Florida,U.S
Federal health officials on Friday warned pregnant women not to travel to trendy Miami Beach after Florida confirmed that the mosquito-borne Zika vi...
Zuckerberg gives away $95 million Facebook shares in charity
In the first gesture to fulfil his pledge that he and his wife made last year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sold $95 million of the social netwo...
130 million people depend on assistance to survive: Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said in a message on World Humanitarian Day Friday that a record 130 million people depend on assistance to surviv...
Trump regrets not using right words sometimes
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he regretted causing pain to people by not choosing the "right words" sometimes and uttering "...
US accepted over 53,000 Hindu refugees: State Department
The US has accepted more than 53,000 Hindu refugees since 2005, almost all from Bhutan while 11 from India, according to the State Department.Between ...
3 Indian-American women in race to make history in Nov polls
As Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton targets to break the "highest glass ceiling" in the US, three Indian-Americans figure in a list o...
Twitter suspended 360,000 accounts for 'promotion of terrorism'
Twitter has shut down 360,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts since the middle of 2015, the company said in a blog post on Thursd...
World's 'Largest Aircraft' gets off ground
The world's "largest aircraft" embarked on its maiden flight on Wednesday, four days after a previous attempt was abandoned due to technical issues. T...
Osama's son Hamza urges youth to overthrow Saudi rulers
Terrorism-monitoring company Site Intelligence Group (Site) has said that Hamza bin Laden, the son of al-Qaida’s slain founder Osama bin Laden, has ur...
Brazil police detain two US swimmers on plane
Brazilian police pulled two US Olympic swimmers off a plane about to leave the country for questioning in a row over their claim to have been victims ...
Australia agrees to close controversial Papua New Guinea refugee detention centre
Australia has agreed to close a controversial asylum seeker detention centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG). PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said, he met ...
Clinton leads Trump by 6 points in Presidential race: poll
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has a 6-percentage-point lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos trackin...
North Korean diplomat at London embassy defects, flees another country
A diplomat at the North Korean embassy in London has defected and fled abroad with his family, a South Korean media reported today citing a well-infor...
A.R.Rahman enthrals audience at UN concert
Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman enthralled a packed audience at the iconic UN General Assembly hall with his renditions of Indian Carnatic legend M...
Trump proposes extreme vetting of new immigrants into US
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has proposed an "extreme vetting process" for new immigrants to prevent entry of radicalised ones into ...
Six people killed in floods in Southern Louisiana, US
In United States, devastating floods have killed at least six people and pushed thousands people from their homes at southern Louisiana. Governor of L...
Nigerian troops killed 16 Boko Haram militants
Nigerian troops have killed 16 Boko Haram militants in country's volatile northeast at Kangarwa in Borno state. An army spokesman said, troops s...
9 people killed in earthquake in Peru
A moderate 5.2-magnitude earthquake in Peru has killed at least nine people and injured more than 50. Among the killed was a US tourist. Officia...
JFK international airport partly evacuated after shots reported
The John F Kennedy International Airport here was today partly evacuated due to what US law enforcement authorities described as "abundance of cauti...
Imam killed in shooting in New York
In the United States, an imam and another unidentified person were shot in the head near a mosque in Queens neighbourhood of New York, police said. ...
Presidents of Venezuela and Colombia announce to open the border today
Presidents of Venezuela and Colombia have announced the border between the two countries will be reopened. The border will be opened at five crossin...
US Ambassador tweets apology to SRK for detention at LA airport
U.S. Ambassador to India Rich Verma tweeted apology to Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan for his detention at the Los Angeles airport on Friday...
Four dead as Thailand hit with string of blasts
At least four people have been killed in eight bomb blasts that have hit across Thailand in the past 24 hours, in the resort town of Hua Hin and south...
Shah Rukh Khan detained at Los Angeles airport
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was detained at the Los Angeles airport for questioning by the US immigration department. "I fully understand & res...
Donald Trump seeks to raise fresh ethical questions about Clinton
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday tried to raise ethical questions about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and criticized her f...
Twitter not responsible for rise of Islamic State: US court
A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Twitter that accused the micro-blogging site for the rise of the Islamic State (IS) terror group by providi...
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