Countries around the world are marking the New Year with festivities. Revellers in Australia and New Zealand were some of the first to welcome the New...
In Bangladesh, two students have been sentenced to death for the killing of an atheist blogger there in 2013, the first convictions in a series of kil...
Twentynine fishermen from Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu were today detained by Sri Lankan naval personnel when they were fishing off Trincomalle...
A mild tremor measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale on Thursday hit central Nepal in the early hours.The aftershock was recorded at 7:41 am, with its epi...
In Belgium, the annual New Year's Eve festivities and fireworks in the heart of capital Brussels have been cancelled for security reasons. Mayor Yvan ...
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According to reports, a suicide bomber ridding on a motorcycle rammed through the gate after the security guard posted there denied him entry. powerf...
In the United States, the death toll has risen to 41 in disaster caused by storms and floods in southern and central states. Many buildings have fla...
In the United Kingdom, thousands of people were forced to flee their homes in northern England hit by unprecedented floods. Lancashire in northwest ...
Austrian Police asked citizen for their understanding of the need for more security controls. Vienna police said on Saturday a "friendly" intellige...
Gen. Sharif had gone to Kabul “with all the sincerity and optimism for better border management and peace process in Afghanistan Gen. Sharif will me...
The ruling Communist Party had said that Beijing would loosen its decades-old one-child policy. For decades, China harshly implemented the one-child ...
Mexico City: A man believed to be the world's most obese passed away on Friday in Mexico, barely two months after undergoing a weight-loss surgery. ...
The US has welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise visit to Pakistan. A State Department Spokesman said in Washington that improved ties be...
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 ...
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