Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are sure to discuss North Korea at their bilateral summit as the American leader looks to...

Two days before a high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump played golf and tweeted Saturday from one of his namesake...

India inaugurated its largest visa centre in the world in the Bangladeshi capital on July 14 to reduce the waiting time for applicants.Bangladeshis constitute one...

More than 200 Nicaraguan university students were reunited with their parents Saturday after a tense night of armed attacks that left two dead and dozens...

US President Donald Trump said he intends to run for re-election in 2020 because "everybody wants me to" and there are no Democratic candidates who...

The toilet and its walls, splattered with big, bold and broken Mandarin words which translate to “smell of dog fart”, is more famous than the...

Prosecutors on Thursday dropped charges against porn star Stormy Daniels just hours after she was arrested and accused of illegally rubbing undercover police officers’ faces...

 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced support for the UN human rights chief’s call for an independent international investigation into the human rights situation in...

“I want tariffs… I want someone to bring me some tariffs.”This is the scene in the White House one year ago. US President Donald Trump...

 And then, after all the diplomatic tumult, it was time to sip tea with the queen.President Donald Trump took a break from his sparring with...

 Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik thanked the Malaysian Government for not deporting him from the country despite several efforts made by India in this regard.Naik...

 The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has made arrangements to transport former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam to the Adiala jail upon...

Facebook is facing its first financial penalty for allowing the data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to forage through the personal data of millions of unknowing Facebook...

 Papa John’s founder John Schnatter has resigned as chairman of the board.The company made the announcement late Wednesday, hours after Schnatter apologized for using a...

 U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday as he aimed to entrench its conservative control for years to...

Chiang Rai: The boys rescued from a Thai cave were passed "sleeping" on stretchers through the treacherous pathways, a former Thai Navy SEAL who was...

Under fire for his warm embrace of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump jolted the NATO summit Wednesday by turning a spotlight on Germany’s ties...

Mexico’s incoming president on Tuesday thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for his “respectful attitude” toward the next Mexican administration and held out hope for joint...

China’s domestic automakers were among the worst performers in China’s bear market, with Great Wall Motor down by more than 50% from its October peak....

Brussels: President Donald Trump asserted that Germany is “totally controlled” by and “captive to Russia” over a pipeline project during a tasty breakfast with NATO...

Manchester United on Tuesday invited the newly rescued Thai youth soccer team, along with their rescuers, to travel to England to see an upcoming match.The...

The release of a new defense strategy paper by New Zealand, marking a shift towards greater coordination with the US and Australia on security issues,...

 President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a politically connected conservative judge, for the Supreme Court Monday, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle with Democrats as...

Rescue workers in Thailand brought out four people on Monday from a flooded cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped for more...

Folic acid fortification not only protects developing babies against certain birth defects but also supports healthy brain development through the teenage years, researchers report.“It’s been...

British Prime Minister Theresa May dug in her heels Monday after the resignation of two top government ministers over Brexit negotiations whipped up a storm...

British Prime Minister Theresa May dug in her heels Monday after the resignation of two top government ministers over Brexit negotiations whipped up a storm...

China allowed the widow of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo to be freed from house arrest and leave for Berlin on Tuesday, her...

Expert divers Sunday rescued four of 12 boys from a flooded cave in northern Thailand where they were trapped with their soccer coach for more...

Istanbul: 24 people were killed in the derailment of a passenger train in northwestern Turkey, said a top Turkish official.Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdag said...

London: Britain’s most senior official in charge of negotiating the country’s exit from the European Union resigned on Sunday, accusing Prime Minister Theresa May of...

Undeterred by a blistering rebuke of his efforts to forge a denuclearization deal with North Korea, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday appealed...

British Prime Minister Theresa May secured a cabinet agreement on Friday for her plans to leave the European Union, overcoming rifts among her ministers to...

Cambodian political parties on Saturday kicked off a three-week-long campaign for a controversial general election later this month, which strongman Hun Sen is poised to...

 Companies seeking product exclusions from tariffs on Chinese goods imported into the United States will get 90 days to file such requests, until Oct. 9,...

One hundred hot air balloons floated over Lithuania's second city of Kaunas on Saturday to mark 100 years of the Baltic state's independence."The first hot...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted Saturday that two days of talks with his North Korean counterpart on dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal had been...

 Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday that he will propose former Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard to be the country’s next top diplomat.Lopez...

Australia and New Zealand are set to seal a new security agreement with their Pacific island neighbors as China increases its influence in the region,...

 Moscow: FIFA president Gianni Infantino has invited the Thai boys' football team trapped in a cave to the World Cup final, as messages of support...

U.S. President Donald Trump will drill down on Russia’s “malign activity” during summits with NATO allies and Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. officials said on...

 Montreal: A heatwave in Quebec has killed at least 19 people in the past week as high summer temperatures scorched eastern Canada, health officials said.Twelve...

For the second time in four months, two people lie critically ill in England’s Salisbury District Hospital after being exposed to a military-grade nerve agent...

Singapore: Oil prices fell on Thursday after United States President Donald Trump sent a strident tweet demanding that Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cut...

A protest against U.S. immigration policy forced the evacuation of the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July, with a group unfurling a banner...

Egyptians are mourning the exit of their country's national team from the World Cup soccer tournament following a 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia this week.But...

 Indonesia’s police and military are responsible for at least 95 unlawful killings in the easternmost Papua region since 2010, including targeted slayings of activists, Amnesty...

Furious at spiraling corruption and violence, Mexican voters unleashed a political earthquake Sunday by electing a leftist firebrand as president and giving him a broad...

Furious at spiraling corruption and violence, Mexican voters appeared to have unleashed a political earthquake Sunday by electing a leftist firebrand and giving him a...

People from all walks of life, including Bangladesh's foreign friends, on Sunday paid their deep respect to those who lost their lives in the Gulshan...

U.S. President Donald Trump has written to eight European NATO members to tell them to stick to their defense spending commitments, Belgian Prime Minister Charles...

Plans to erect a memorial honouring the passengers and crew of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were shelved by Australia on Sunday after protests by...

Rosewood is the generic name for several dark-red hardwood species found in tropical regions across the globe. It fetches very high prices because it’s strong,...

U.S. President Donald Trump refused on Friday to rule out accepting Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region when he meets his Kremlin counterpart Vladimir Putin...

Quito: It's not up to Washington to decide the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Ecuador's top diplomat has said, following the visit of United...

Baghdad: Iraq executed a dozen death row terrorists on the order of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, his office said Friday, in retaliation for the ISIS...

The 38-year-old gunman who carried out a deadly assault on a newspaper office in Annapolis had barricaded a back door hoping to “kill as many”...

Cape Canaveral, Florida: A science fiction-inspired robot hardwired to assist astronauts launched from Florida early Friday morning to become the first personal, artificial intelligence-powered companion...

A picture released by the Iraqi justice ministry on June 29, 2018 shows a group of convicted jihadists awaiting execution. (Photo: AFP)Baghdad: Iraq said on...

Washington: US intelligence agencies believe North Korea has increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months and may try...

Reuters KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) — Malaysia on Friday said it has frozen bank accounts of the political party once led by former premier Najib Razak...

The international airport on the Indonesian resort island of Bali reopened Friday afternoon after a nearly 12-hour closure due to a volcanic ash threat that...

Washington: Ahead of next week's maiden 2+2 dialogue with India, US President Donald Trump on June 27 accused New Delhi of charging as high as...

The European Union and Canada imposed sanctions on seven senior military officials from Myanmar on Monday, including the general in charge of an operation accused...

Moscow: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's opponents, the Canadian Conservative Party, slammed him for taking too many days off, too often.The Canadian Conservative Party's tweet...

A sharply divided Supreme Court upheld U.S. President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries Tuesday, the conservative majority taking his side...

Guatemala on Monday asked the U.S. government to give its migrants Temporary Protected Status after the devastating Fuego volcano eruption.Officials have confirmed the deaths of...

London:  India is the world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according...

Beijing: US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived in Beijing on his first ever visit to China on Tuesday, aiming to find room for military cooperation...

Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won tightly-contested presidential polls, the election authority said on Monday, extending his 15-year grip on power as the...

Evidence that cannabis can ease epilepsy and other conditions is building as a British company counts down to what would be the first U.S. government...

Tunisian women led a march by more than 1,000 demonstrators Saturday, including men, to demand equal inheritance rights for both sexes in the North African...

Donald Trump will make his Latin America debut next month, visiting Peru and Colombia after harsh rhetoric towards Hispanic migrants and neighbors to the south.Trump...

Former top aide of U.S. President Donald Trump Steve Bannon told the French far right on Saturday that “history is on our side” as he...

Washington: The United States formally concluded Tuesday that North Korea ordered the murder of a half-brother and potential rival to ruler Kim Jong-Un with the...

China said on Sunday that it did not want a trade war with the US but would not sit idly by and allow its interests...

The government's emergency committee Cobra is to be updated on the police probe into the suspected poisoning of a former Russian double agent. Sergei Skripal,...

More than 131 years after being thrown overboard, the world's oldest message in a bottle has washed up on a beach in western Australia. The...

In response to a deadly Florida school shooting last month, the state’s Senate narrowly passed a bill Monday that would create new restrictions on rifle...

The number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexican forests declined for a second consecutive year, a government official said Monday.Alejandro Del Mazo, Mexico’s commissioner for...

Florida’s Republican-controlled Senate voted on Monday to generally exclude classroom teachers from a plan to allow school staff to carry firearms as part of a...

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un met senior South Korean government officials for the first time and said it is his “firm will to vigorously...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to form her fourth government after the opposition Social Democrats voted in favor of another grand coalition.The vote by...

Italians are voting after a divisive campaign dominated by concerns over immigration and the economy. Correspondents say it is hard to say who will come...

Federal investigators are looking into whether Jared Kushner’s business talks with foreigners, as his father-in-law Donald Trump assumed the US presidency, later influenced White House...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday launched what appeared to be the start of a new arms race with Washington, as he boasted of a...

New York:  US retail giant Walmart announced Wednesday that it was raising to 21 its minimum age to buy firearms and ammunition, the latest US...

Seven suspected Colom-bian paramilitaries were killed in a confrontation with Venezuelan security forces in Tachira state on the border, an official said Wednesday. The incident in...

The only civilians to leave Eastern Ghouta this week were a septuagenarian Pakistani man who moved to Syria 44 years ago and his wife, according...

Russia has violated its duty to guarantee the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and prevent the Assad government from using poison gas, the United States...

The EU has proposed a "common regulatory area" on the island of Ireland if solutions cannot be found for the post-Brexit border.Unveiling a draft legal...

The vote in the Security Council was 11 in favor, Russia and Bolivia opposed, and China and Kazakhstan abstaining.United Nations: Russia vetoed a British-drafted UN...

Ivanka was confronted by a journalist and asked her about the women who accuse her father of sexual misconduct before he became President.Washington:  Is it...

Thousands of African asylum seekers, migrants and their supporters are protesting against Israel's plans to deport them. The government has given the group until 1...

In June 2017, President Trump had announced to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change and renegotiate the deal.Washington: US President Donald...

Indian IT firms, which are among the major beneficiaries of H-1B visas, has a significant number of its staff deployed at third-party worksites.Washington: The Trump...

Sarah Clarke, the former director of the Wimbledon tennis championships, on Tuesday became the first woman to hold the post of “Black Rod” in British...

A former senior official in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Rick Gates, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy against the United States and lying to...

Venezuela’s opposition announced Wednesday it would not participate in April 22 presidential elections without guarantees that it would be free and fair.It said doing so...

Bushra Menaka is the third wife and spiritual guide of the PTI chief.Islamabad: Reham Khan, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s former wife, has claimed...

The Pyeongchang Games have become a venue for geopolitics as much as sports.Seoul: Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka will come face-to-face with a top North Korean...

Liberia's new President George Weah on Tuesday pledged to fight corruption as he spoke about conditions in his broke country on the first day of...

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has always dressed with style and flair — but Tuesday marked her first visit to the showy catwalks of London Fashion...

The hashtag #oneless has mushroomed on social media as many gun owners have posted pictures or video of their firearms being destroyed.Los Angeles:  A video...

Trump Jr has made several visits to India over the years and has repeatedly talked of great business opportunities in the country.New Delhi/ Washington: Donald...

A new British party inspired by French President Emmanuel Macron’s movement launched a campaign on Monday to thwart Brexit by convincing lawmakers to block any...

Prosecutors are seeking a 3-yr prison term for Ali Ouattara for helping his son's illegal entry into Europe and endangering child's life.Ceuta, Spain:  The heart-rending...

 German Chancellor Angela Merkel put forward close ally Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Monday to take over as secretary general of her Christian Democrats (CDU), heeding calls...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said Saturday there was “incontrovertible” evidence of a Russian plot to disrupt the 2016 U.S. election, a blunt...

SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull brushed aside suggestions of a rift in his coalition government on Sunday, saying there were "no issues" between the...

The policy change, announced by the Saudi government on Thursday, also marks a major step away from the strict guardianship system that has ruled the...

The British warship HMS Sutherland docked in Australia on the weekend. The Royal Navy’s Type 23 anti-submarine frigate will conduct exercises and patrol operations with...

A Brexit deal should strike a balance to ensure Britain clearly diverges from the European Union’s single market but keeps close economic ties with the...

Pope Francis revived his lapsed sex abuse advisory commission by naming new members Saturday, after coming under fire for his overall handling of the scandal...

The Trump administration has made clear that the US wants a “productive” relationship with China, and the two countries must work to manage and resolve...

Germany’s Social Democrats start campaigning Saturday ahead of a party referendum that spells the last threat to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hopes of forming a new...

At a hearing to confirm nominees for top State Department roles, senators said they had been told by members of President Donald Trump's national security...

In this frame grab from video provided by WPLG-TV, law enforcement personnel arrest an unidentified man (in dark red), following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman...

 China’s military might is growing at such a pace that it could soon rival American power “across almost every domain,” a top U.S. military official...

 Former U.S. first couple Barack and Michelle Obama unveiled their portraits at Washington’s National Portrait Gallery Monday, two contrasting works by African American artists that...

Though Rohingya have always been persecuted in the country, it got much worse after 2012, when violence in Rakhine killed hundreds and drove about 140,000...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday accused the Democrats of playing politics with classified information, asserting that their memo countering GOP allegations about the conduct...

Mr Rouhani is due to leave for India on Thursday to discuss ‘the latest regional and global developments.’ (Photo: File)Hassan Rouhani was invited by Prime...

South African President Jacob Zuma’s exit from power because of scandals appeared to be getting closer on Wednesday as his deputy, who is expected to...

U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the Pentagon to plan a grand parade of the U.S. armed forces in Washington this year to celebrate military...

 Travis Kalanick also said he was not told by Levandowski that he would bring Google secrets to Uber, or that he had downloaded files from...

Security forces in the Maldives stormed the Supreme Court overnight, arresting two judges and later a top opposition politician, after the government declared a state...

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley accused Russia on Monday of protecting Syrian President Bashar Assad from responsibility for what she said were multiple chlorine gas attacks...

 The worst-hit Marshal Hotel partly crumpled into the ground, leaving it slanting on its side, as rescuers on cranes attempted to free people from its...

The Supreme Court decision is s seen by opposition activists as a blow to their attempts at toppling President Abdulla Yameen - accused of plunging...

But Trump's arrival in the White House a year ago, and his regular denunciations of the deal with Iran and the country in general, cooled...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Friday that Germany’s top parties still had “very serious differences” to overcome ahead of next week’s deadline for sealing a...

U.S. President Donald Trump expressed hope on Friday that “something good” could come from North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympics in South Korea, even...

The four-page memo suggests that the Justice Department and the FBI abused their power in running surveillance on a member of President Donald Trump's election...

Britain is seeking a free trade agreement with China, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday as she flew to the country for talks with...

Syria’s Kurdish militia is growing frustrated with its patron, the United States, and is pressing it to do more to stop Turkey’s assault on a...

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani (Photo: AP)Afghan interior minister, intelligence chief visit Islamabad to share info on Kabul hotel attack.Islamabad: Afghanistan on Wednesday shared evidence with...

The Trump administration let a top Russian spy official visit the United States last week for meetings with U.S. intelligence officials even though there are...

Peru’s ancient Nazca Lines were damaged when a driver accidentally plowed his cargo truck into the fragile archaeological site in the desert, officials said Tuesday.The...

Haley is the first ever cabinet ranking Indian-American in any presidential administration. (Photo: AP)Haley said PM Modi was aggressively pursuing reforms and changes in India.Washington: ...

Members of the police bomb squad cordon off an area where a World War II bomb was found at a construction site in Hong Kong,...

Billions of bits of plastic waste are entangled in corals and sickening reefs from Thailand to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, scientists have said.The trash is...

Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a target of frequent and aggressive criticism by U.S. President Donald Trump, abruptly stepped down from his...

The US government has sometimes referred to such numbers in the 16-year-old war to show how the Afghan security forces are faring against a resurgent...

The US military has reported several 'unsafe' interactions with Russian jets in the skies over the Black Sea in recent months. (Photo:AP)The incident unfolded while...

The Trump administration has taken a harder line on policies initiated by predecessor Barack Obama on issues ranging from Beijing's role in restraining North Korea...

British Prime Minister Theresa May (Photo: AP) Downing Street was also forced to respond to critics, claiming that May was “grasping the many opportunities” of Brexit...

An interactive map found online can show the locations and activities of people who use fitness devices such as Fitbit, raising security concerns about soldiers...

Initial tests in Nevada on a compact nuclear power system designed to sustain a long-duration NASA human mission on the inhospitable surface of Mars have...

 McCabe began his career at the agency in 1996 as a special agent investigating organized crime. (photo:AP)McCabe, who served as acting Federal Bureau of Investigation...