A tweet from US President Donald Trump that identified an intelligence analyst as the alleged whistleblower who helped spark his impeachment was temporarily blocked at...

Poland's prime minister has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been lying in remarks blaming Poland for the outbreak of World War II, and...

 At least 90 people were killed and dozens were wounded when a bomb-laden vehicle exploded at a bustling checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu on...

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte named two new ministers on Saturday to replace his education minister who recently resigned and outlined an ambitious agenda for...

Multiple people were stabbed at a Jewish place of worship in upstate New York late Saturday night, a public affairs group said."At 9:50 this eve,...

The rumors swirled for decades: A dark history long lay buried under the grassy knolls and manicured lawns of a country club in Florida’s capital...

Sudan's transitional government is to postpone lifting fuel subsidies, initially planned as part of the 2020 budget, the information minister said on Saturday.Finance minister Ibrahim...

At least 28 people including textile workers and several Asian tourists were killed on Saturday (Dec 28) in two separate road crashes in Egypt, official...

Multiple people were stabbed at a Jewish place of worship in upstate New York late Saturday night, a public affairs group said."At 9:50 this eve,...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday turned down the proposal to convene a meeting on Kashmir after France vetoed the move, French diplomatic...

US President Donald Trump railed against a Democratic Party “consumed with hatred” after he was impeached Wednesday for abuse of power and obstructing Congress."While we're...

The United States honours Indian democracy as they have a robust debate inside the country on the issues like citizenship and religious freedom, a top...

The White House said on Wednesday it was confident the US Senate would exonerate President Donald Trump in a trial after the House of Representatives...

 Joe Biden is “healthy, vigorous” and “fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,” according to a doctor’s report released Tuesday by the 77-year-old...

President Donald Trump was impeached for abuse of power and obstructing Congress by refusing to cooperate with a Democratic-led impeachment investigation in a historic vote...

Former Vice President Joe Biden is healthy enough to undertake the duties of the US presidency, his doctor said on Tuesday in a health report...

California has settled with an India-based technology company that it accuses of misclassifying foreign workers and related tax fraud, the state attorney general’s office said...

Britain's government said Tuesday it will legislate to ensure a post-Brexit transition period does not extend beyond 2020, sending the pound sinking as the European...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time), in a scathing letter to House of Representative speaker, Nancy Pelosi strongly protested against the "partisan impeachment...

Deep in the rainforest of Volcanoes National Park, a 23-year-old female gorilla named Kurudi feeds on a stand of wild celery. She bends the green...

Stressing that it is closely following the developments regarding the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in India, US State Department has appealed protestors to refrain from violence,...

The United Nations Security Council would meet at China’s request on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, diplomats said.The council would meet...

Boeing Co said Monday that it would temporarily stop producing its grounded 737 Max jet starting in January as it struggles to get approval from...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will welcome 109 new Conservative lawmakers to parliament on Monday, promising to honour his election-winning pledges to get Brexit done...

Marathon U.N. climate talks ended Sunday with a slim compromise that sparked widespread disappointment, after major polluters resisted calls for ramping up efforts to keep...

US President Donald Trump has said that it is unfair that he was being impeached as he had done no wrong and the US, under...

Green activists dumped horse manure and staged a mock hanging outside the venue of a UN climate summit in Madrid on Saturday, airing their frustration...

Divers searched seas around New Zealand's volatile White Island Saturday for two people still missing five days after the volcano erupted, amid warnings it could...

Indian-origin candidates across both the Conservative and Labour parties on Friday registered strong results in the UK's general election, with around a dozen MPs retaining...

The United States is concerned about the implications of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in India, a top American diplomat responsible for monitoring international religious freedom...

US President Donald Trump stood on the verge of impeachment Friday after a House panel approved charges he abused his power and obstructed Congress, setting...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed Time magazine's naming of Greta Thunberg as 2019 Person of the Year, saying the Swedish teen climate activist...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised not to let down voters whose hands had 'quivered over the ballot paper before backing his Conservative party for the...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that he has a possible skin cancer, after a medical visit where he had a mole removed from...

Voters go to the polls on Thursday in an election that will pave the way for Brexit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson or propel Britain...

India's Citizenship Amendment Bill is an attempt to reduce minority Muslims into second class citizens, a Muslim-American Congressman has said as the contentious bill got...

Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday denied "genocidal intent" as she defended Myanmar's military operation against Rohingya Muslims in the UN's top...

Social Democrat Sanna Marin said on Tuesday she would restore stability to Finland and keep using social media — but with care — after being...

New Zealand police on Tuesday announced a criminal investigation to probe how an eruption at the White Island volcano led to an estimated 13 deaths.The...

New Zealand police on Tuesday announced a criminal investigation to probe how an eruption at the White Island volcano led to an estimated 13 deaths.The...

The man suspected of killing six people and injuring two in a Czech hospital on Tuesday morning is dead after shooting himself in the head,...

The Pentagon announced on Tuesday it was halting operational training of all Saudi Arabian military personnel in the United States until further notice after a...

Democrats announced formal charges against President Donald Trump on Tuesday that accuse him of abusing power and obstructing Congress, making him only the third US...

At least six people, including one police officer and two suspected gunmen, were killed in a shootout around a New Jersey grocery store across the...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came under fire on Monday for his response to being shown a photo of a sick child lying on a...

A federal US commission on international religious freedom has claimed that the Citizenship (Amendment) bill was a "dangerous turn in wrong direction" and sought American...

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday he still plans to shift the American military’s focus to competing with China and Russia, even as security...

Britain’s general election campaign enters its frenetic final stages on Monday, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn desperately seeking votes ahead...

A former US college baseball player who helped inspire the global phenomenon known as the “ice bucket challenge” to tackle a deadly neurodegenerative disease has...

It's whispered in NATO meeting rooms and celebrated in China's halls of power. It's lamented in the capital cities of key US allies and welcomed...

US President Donald Trump aimed to make inroads Saturday in the politically important Jewish-American vote with a Florida speech where he declared himself the best...

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday (Dec 8) that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un risks losing "everything" if he resumes hostility and his...

The Saudi military student who carried out a deadly shooting spree at a US naval base showed videos of mass shootings at a dinner party...

Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that Pakistan believes the effective and result-oriented regional cooperation can only be achieved by adhering to the cardinal...

Police on Friday fatally shot four men being held on suspicion of raping and killing a woman in southern India after investigators took them to...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced a feeling of “deep shame” during her first-ever visit on Friday to the hallowed grounds of the former Nazi German...

Ukraine's former president Petro Poroshenko on Friday warned his successor to never trust anything Russia's Vladimir Putin said and avoid meeting him one-on-one, three days...

A man in the UK has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a charity worker, who worked with Mother Teresa as a...

President Donald Trump said Friday in a tweet that he will hold off on designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organisations.Trump said all the work...

Washington resumed talks with the Taliban in Qatar Saturday, a US source said, three months after President Donald Trump abruptly halted diplomatic efforts that could...

President Donald Trump told a White House gathering Friday that he's taking aim at the problem of US toilets that require flushing "10 times, 15...

A Saudi Air Force trainee opened fire at a US naval station in Florida on Friday, killing three people before being shot dead by police,...

A blind man was executed by the US state of Tennessee on Thursday for burning his ex-girlfriend to death.Lee Hall, who was previously known as...

Germany expelled two Russian diplomats Wednesday over the brazen killing of a Georgian on the streets of Berlin in August as prosecutors said evidence suggested...

A shooter was killed after opening fire at a US naval base in Florida on Friday and killing at least one other person, police and...

The White House on Tuesday dismissed the impeachment report issued by the US House Intelligence Committee saying it had "failed to produce any evidence of...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday took a jibe at Democrat Senator Kamala Harris, who has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race."Too bad. We...

In a surprise announcement, Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris dropped out of the 2020 US presidential race."To my supporters, it is with deep regret — but...

Climate change, gun violence, the very nature of democracy and an angsty little movie star called Forky helped propel “existential” to Dictionary.com’s word of the...

An American woman who says she was forced to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew has appealed to Britons to take her side, saying that...

A new statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was dedicated in Alabama’s capital city on Sunday, the 64th anniversary of her historic refusal to...

Greece’s prime minister said Sunday he will ask other NATO members at the alliance’s London summit to support Greece in the face of fellow member...

Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, under fire over his handling of the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, said Sunday he would step down after...

At least 24 Tunisians were killed and 18 more injured Sunday when a bus plunged off a cliff into a ravine in the country's north,...

A US national has surrendered to the police in San Bernardino and been arrested on charges of killing Indian national Abhishek Sudhesh Bhat early this...

US President Donald Trump's attorney has said that the White House would not participate in congressional hearings set to begin this week that will consider...

The search and rescue operation for earthquake survivors in Albania has ended, the prime minister said Saturday, with the death toll at 51 and no...

The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for the knife-attack in central London where a convicted terrorist killed two people before being shot dead...

The London Bridge attack pushed law and order toward the top of the British political agenda on Saturday, with days to go before a snap...

Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has that former Bolivian leader Evo Morales was the "victim of a coup d'etat".Speaking to a crowd of supporters...

Members of Germany’s junior governing party have chosen a left-leaning duo as its new leaders, a decision that could endanger the future of Chancellor Angela...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro claimed on Friday that Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio financed fires being set in the Amazon rainforest, without presenting any evidence, the...

A convicted Islamist terrorist, who spent part of his teens in Pakistan and released last year from a UK prison, is suspected to be the...

Thousands of people in Asia and Europe joined rallies demanding more action on climate change on Friday, aiming to force political leaders to come up...

Authorities say nine people have been killed after a plane crashed in South Dakota.Peter Knudson with the National Transportation Safety Board tells The Associated Press...

Britain's governing Conservative Party complained to the broadcasting regulator after its chosen representative was shut out of a general election television debate on climate change...

British police named the man who stabbed two people to death in London on Friday in what the authorities called a terrorist attack as 28-year-old...

Spain wanted to make a splash on the international scene by agreeing to host next month’s COP25 climate summit at the last minute after Chile...

Ordinary Londoners who showed "breath-taking heroism" in disarming a knife-wielding attacker were praised by politicians and members of the public alike after they intervened to...

"It's like getting stabbed," a tourist exclaims as he plunges into the three degree Celsius (37 Fahrenheit) water, all under the intrigued gaze of a...

Days after causing alarm with an unscheduled trip to the hospital, President Donald Trump tweeted a photo-shopped image of himself Wednesday as a rippling, bare-chested...

More than 2,27,000 Indians are waiting in line for family-sponsored Green Card or legal permanent residency, according to a latest recent official data.Currently, there are...

Federal law enforcement agencies have arrested 90 foreign students, mostly from India, enrolled in a fake university established by the US government to check immigration...

A pair of storms packing heavy snow and hurricane-force winds left tens of thousands without power in the United States on Wednesday (Nov 27) and...

A Toronto man has been charged for throwing faeces on unsuspecting people in apparently random attacks on university campuses and a downtown street in Canada's...

The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Tuesday invited President Donald Trump to its first impeachment hearing, scheduled for December 4, starting a new...

The teenage Indian-American university student sexually assaulted in Chicago was placed in a choke hold by the accused until she passed out, prosecutors said.The gruesome...

Drug-resistant “superbug” infections have been called a developing nightmare that could set medicine back a century, making conquered germs once again untreatable.So there’s some surprising...

Indian-American Anil Raj was killed in a terrorist attack in Kabul, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday.I want to confirm with a...

Federal prosecutors said a 21-year-old man has pleaded guilty to sending false shooting and bomb threats to schools in the US and Britain.The Department of...

More than 60 doctors wrote an open letter published on Monday saying they feared Julian Assange's health was so bad that the WikiLeaks founder could...

The chief of the US Navy on Sunday criticised Donald Trump after being sacked in a dispute over an elite SEAL commando whose demotion for...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson launched the Conservative Party's election manifesto on Sunday (local time), promising to put his 'Get Brexit Done' deal before parliament...

A proposal to import five whales to Connecticut has sparked a standoff between animal welfare groups and an aquarium that says the animals will contribute...

German police asked about 900 men on Saturday to have their DNA tested to help solve the gruesome killing of an 11-year-old girl from the...

The boy who was thrown off a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America in Minnesota earlier this year has returned to school.The child, identified...

A former CIA case agent was sentenced to 19 years in prison Friday for an espionage conspiracy in which prosecutors say he received more than...

Chile’s interior minister on Friday made an appeal for peace and the “recovery of public order” after a fresh round of protests and riots around...

Teenage Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg will guest-edit BBC radio's main daily current affairs programme in December, the broadcaster announced Saturday.The 16-year-old climate change campaigner...

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand on Saturday, the country's seismic monitoring service GeoNet said.The epicentre of the quake, which occurred at 4:34 pm (UTC),...

An eastern Missouri man was accused of holding his pregnant girlfriend captive, punching her and forcing her to drink toilet water and bleach.The St. Louis...

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he had saved Hong Kong from being destroyed by persuading Chinese President Xi Jinping to hold off on...

Rejecting Chinese claim on deciding the Dalai Lama's successor, the United States on Thursday said that this was an issue that should be taken up...

The United States on Thursday warned Pakistan that it faced long-term economic damage with little return if China keeps pursuing its giant infrastructure push.The top...

The teenager who gunned down two classmates at a California school last week before shooting himself used a “kit gun” that is untraceable, authorities said...

The US Navy on Wednesday began a procedure that could remove from its elite SEALs unit an officer accused of war crimes whom President Donald...

Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief rival announced Wednesday that he had failed to form a new government, dashing his hopes of toppling the long-time Israeli prime minister...

The US envoy on North Korea acknowledged on Wednesday (Nov 20) that Pyongyang has not yet taken verifiable action to denuclearise and called on the...

The Trump Administration has notified to the United States Congress its determination to sell naval guns for use against warships, anti-aircraft and shore bombardment worth...

A ferry crew found 25 migrants in a refrigerated container on a boat sailing from the Netherlands to Britain on Tuesday, emergency services said.The cargo...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed the mainstream media for spreading rumour about his health and called them sick. Trump visited a military hospital...

 Idaho granted a conditional waiver Nov. 7 to the U.S. Department of Energy that could allow research quantities of spent nuclear fuel into the state...

A Swedish prosecutor says the alleged rape investigation involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently in prison in Britain, has been discontinued.Deputy Chief Prosecutor...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over a decade this year, government data on Monday showed, confirming a sharp increase under...

Michael Bloomberg on Sunday apologized for his longstanding support of the controversial “stop-and-frisk” police strategy ahead of a potential Democratic presidential run, a practice that...

The United States no longer believes that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday in the latest...

Three people were killed in a shooting early Monday outside a Walmart store in Oklahoma, including the assailant, police said -- the latest in a...

Pope Francis on Sunday hosted around 1,500 poor and homeless people for lunch at the Vatican, decrying indifference to poverty as the Catholic Church marked...

Two Arkansas college chemistry professors have been arrested on charges of making meth, in an apparent case of life imitating art.The Clark County sheriff’s office...

Demonstrators torched cars and pelted police with stones and bottles and police fired tear gas and water cannon in Paris on Saturday as rallies to...

A US businesswoman at the centre of controversy over whether Boris Johnson showed her inappropriate favouritism amid an alleged affair said Sunday she had been...

Three young boys and two adults were fatally shot and another boy was wounded in a domestic dispute that escalated into a shooting on Saturday...

About a quarter of a million Czechs gathered on the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that brought an end to decades of communist rule...

An exceptionally high tide hit Venice again on Friday just three days after the city suffered its worst flooding in more than 50 years, leaving...

The head of Russian Helicopters said on Sunday that India was delaying the signing of a firm agreement for purchasing 200 helicopters despite providing all...

President Donald Trump spent more than two hours at Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday for what the White House said were medical tests...

California detectives struggled Friday to attribute a motive to a school shooting carried out by a boy scout with no obvious alarm bells in his...

Britain's Prince Andrew has said he does not remember meeting Virginia Roberts, one of disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims, who says she was...

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper pressed South Korea on Friday to pay more for the cost of stationing U.S. troops in the country and to...

An international team of investigators piecing together a criminal case in the July 2014 shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 over eastern Ukraine said...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the impeachment probe has been very hard on his family, even as he tried to flex his political muscle...

The Venezuelan migration crisis has now entered a new stage in which many of those fleeing their country’s devastating economic downturn and political turmoil are...

The UK chapter of the Baloch National Movement (BNM) and associated organisations called on the Indian government to challenge the atrocities of the "rogue state...

Amid the ongoing impeachment hearings against him by a Democrats-dominated Congressional panel, US President Donald Trump has asserted that he has the right to speak...

Unprecedented bushfires in eastern Australia have turbocharged demands the country's conservative government do more to tackle climate change, and have rekindled an ideological fight over...

The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testifying on Wednesday in the first televised hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, linked the president...

An Arizona woman accused of abusing her adopted children who starred on her popular YouTube channel has died, authorities said Wednesday.Maricopa Police Department spokesman Ricardo...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met Chinese President Xi Jinping and said there has been a "new direction and new energy" in bilateral ties...

Pakistan is preparing to amend the Army Act to allow death-row convict Kulbhushan Jadhav the right to file an appeal against his conviction in a...

Authorities have closed beaches in southwest France as packages of cocaine continue to mysteriously wash up along the country's Atlantic coast, with more than 1,000...