JAKARTA : The Indonesian archipelago of more than 17,000 islands is heavily dependent on ferry services but fatal accidents are common. S...
A gas tanker truck ignited an inferno at a crowded industrial gas plant in Nigeria, killing scores of people lining up to refill their cooking gas c...
In Afghanistan, over 50 people were killed in a traffic accident along a highway in northern province of Samangan. Police said that a long distance ...
Kabul: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today arrived here on a visit during which he is expected to hold talks with Afghan leadership, including Presid...
A migrant worker was pulled out alive on Wednesday after he was buried for more than 60 hours in a massive landslide that swept through part of a ma...
Athens: Greece’s parliament has approved legislation legalising civil partnerships for gay couples, two years after the country was condemned by a E...
Richmond: Bomb squad crews safely detonated a possible explosive device at the house of a San Francisco Bay Area man and arrested him in connection wi...
The two California-based universities have said they have not been blacklisted by the US which was cited as reasons for the recent deportation of 14 I...
Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines was announced as the Miss Universe 2015, after the ceremony's host Steve Harvey admitted to making a big mista...
US House of Representatives passed Friday an omnibus bill to fund the federal government that makes hiring of highly skilled foreign workers on H-1B a...
United States has lifted a 40-year ban on oil exports, marking a historic shift for the booming US oil industry. Senator Heidi Heitkamp of oil-rich No...
India became the largest remittances receiving country at USD 72 billion this year followed by China at USD 64 billion, the World Bank said today.The ...
New York: A 12-year-old Sikh boy was kept behind the bars for three days for allegedly joking to a classmate that he has a bomb in his backpack,...
Finance Ministers from the UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution to increase sanctions against the Islamic State, IS, group and cut off i...
The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.25 percent, its first increase since 2006. This was announced yesterday after a two-day policy m...
Southern Mexico was rattled by a magnitude-6.4 quake on Thursday, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.The tremor was felt in the southern ...
The World Bank has approved a near Rs. 10,000 crore (USD 1.5 billion) loan for the ambitious clean India campaign to support the government in its eff...
Boko Haram militants have attacked three villages in north-eastern Nigeria, leaving 30 people dead and 20 wounded, according to vigilantes. Mustapha K...
Las Vegas: Republican front-runner Donald Trump defended his provocative call for banning Muslims from the United States in Tuesday night’s presidenti...
Yemen's warring parties have begun UN-backed peace talks in Switzerland, as a seven-day ceasefire came into effect. The UN says the talks between the ...
In a suspected hate-related incident, an Indian-origin store clerk was shot in the face during a struggle with an unidentified man who called him a te...
Wellington: New Zealanders chose a new flag design on Tuesday but the question now is whether enough people will rally behind it to oust the current f...
Days after India and Pakistan resolved to work together to counter terrorism, Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed has dared New Delhi to prove his inv...
Washington: A special USD 2,000 fee could return on H-1B and L-1 visas for Indian IT companies to fund a 9/11 healthcare act in the US with a group of...
In Argentina, 43 police officers were killed when their bus fell off a bridge into a dry riverbed yesterday. The bus was carrying 51 people when it ca...
US President Barack Obama says he will ask more nations in the West Asia to make military contributions to the fight against Islamic State. Mr Obama h...
Manila: More than 700,000 people fled the central Philippines amid threats of giant waves, floods and landslides as powerful Typhoon Melor approached ...
London: Offices of social network Facebook in Hamburg were vandalised by a group of 15-20 people, local media reported on Monday.The European head of ...
Los Angeles: Two mosques have been vandalised with paint in the U.S. state of California in the latest in a series of episodes of arson at Muslim hous...
At least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded when a bomb ripped through a crowded Sunday bazaar in a mainly Shiite area of Pakistan's northwestern tr...
Which political party will win the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections 2024?