Ten people were killed after a private aircraft crashed into a hangar at a local airport in the US state of Texas on Sunday (local...

Russian President Vladimir Putin fired a new broadside against Western liberalism at the Group of 20 summit in Japan, saying that policies such as welcoming...

One person was killed and nine others sustained injuries after tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets in various Sudanese cities on Sunday,...

Wildfires burned tracts of land in France and Spain at the weekend as Europe sweltered in record-breaking temperatures that pushed the mercury towards all-time highs...

Hydrogen has the potential to become an important energy carrier in a future clean energy system, complementing electricity, but it will have to overcome formidable...

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to visit the demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea on Sunday, hoping for a third encounter with...

Tonnes of Canadian garbage left in the Philippines for years arrived back home Saturday (Jun 29), putting an end to a festering diplomatic row that...

Sudan braced on Sunday for a mass protest in the capital against the country's ruling generals, as calls mounted for restraint to prevent a new...

A trade war between two economic titans faced a critical junction Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump met with China’s Xi Jinping as both sides...

A Virginia Islamic school teacher who cultivated sexual video conversation with a 15-year-old student will face prison for 10 years, reported Washington Post.Earlier this year,...

A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping USD 2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border...

The Associated PressGet ready to see another world from the eyes of a dragonfly — at least, a robotic one.NASA said Thursday that it’s sending...

British leadership hopeful Boris Johnson pledged on Thursday to introduce a new points-based system to control migration after Brexit, addressing a key issue from the...

A foiled coup in the Ethiopian state of Amhara that left five senior officials dead, including the army’s chief of staff, has thrust ethnic militias...

Wesley Mathews, the Indian-American foster father of three-year-old Sherin Mathews, was sentenced to life by a judge in Dallas on Wednesday for the tragic death...

The volcano, located on the remote Bismarck Archipelago, is listed as one of 16 “Decade Volcanoes” targeted for research because they pose a significant risk...

The Turkish fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi insisted in an emotional interview Tuesday that Washington has the ethical responsibility to initiate...

Ahead of the first Democratic debates, Joe Biden is proposing that Congress grant immediate citizenship to more than 800,000 U.S. residents who were brought to...

In an unexpected turn, the Indian-American father, accused of killing his 3-year-old adopted daughter Sherin Mathews and hiding her body in a culvert in suburban...

The parents of a Houston newborn who suffered a cracked skull and more than 90 fractures just days after being brought home from the hospital...

After every party it’s time to clean up and Mt. Everest is no different. The record number of climbers crowding the world’s highest mountain this...

U.S. President Donald Trump targeted Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top Iranian officials with sanctions on Monday, taking a dramatic, unprecedented step...

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that if he could have one "do-over," it would be "personnel" decisions, including naming former Senator Jeff Sessions...

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Donald Trump to "clarify his position" regarding the European Union, repeatedly the target of the US president's barbs."What is...

Thousands of demonstrators crowded outside Georgia’s Parliament Saturday night for the third straight day of protests that have kindled tensions in the country and prompted...

In August 2018, Spanish authorities uncovered a plot by anti-Brexit campaigners to assassinate leading Brexiteer and now favourite to be Britain's next prime minister, Boris...

The United States on Monday was due to tighten sanctions on Iran as the two countries traded barbs in a tense standoff sparked by Washington's...

Chancellor Angela Merkel said the German government is “very, very serious” about fighting far-right extremism that presents “a big challenge for all of us” after...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Friday banning Russian airlines from flying to Georgia, starting in July, after violent clashes in the neighboring country...

The United States will be evacuating nearly 400 Lockheed Martin and Sallyport Global employees from the Balad Air Base here in a two-stage process due...

A minister from Britain's Foreign Office will travel to Iran on Sunday for talks with senior Iranian government officials amid escalating tensions in the Gulf...

Questioning Britain's "strange system" to select its new leader after the serving Prime Minister steps down, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said the head...

The U.S. government on Thursday said economic sanctions over Turkey’s planned purchase of a Russian missile defense system remained a “very viable” option, even as...

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree banning Russian airlines from flying to Georgia, starting in July, after violent clashes in the neighbouring country over a...

United States President Donald Trump has abruptly pulled back the decision to carry out military strikes against Iran after previously approving it in retaliation to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday expressed his condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the bus accident in Kullu district...

The Canadian government on Tuesday approved a controversial pipeline expansion project to deliver oil to the Pacific coast for shipping overseas, setting the stage for...

The publisher of the New York Times hit back Thursday at accusations of treason by Donald Trump, saying it "crosses a dangerous line in the...

An Indian-origin imam chosen by the BBC for a select panel of members of the British public to put their questions to the UK's prime...

Dutch prosecutors are to put four people on trial for murder next year over the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine, in which 298...

US?President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign on Tuesday by presenting himself as the same political insurgent who shook up the Washington establishment...

A New Zealand man on Tuesday was sentenced to 21 months in prison for redistributing the live-stream video of the attack on two Christchurch mosques...

US President Donald Trump has asked The New York Times to disclose its sources behind the report that claimed that his government was ramping up...

European Union states were at loggerheads on Monday over starting talks with Albania and North Macedonia to enter the bloc, while Cyprus threatened to veto...

A nationwide Fox News poll released Sunday shows U.S. President Donald Trump trailing former Vice President Joe Biden and no fewer than four other Democratic...

U.S. President Donald Trump has lashed out at The New York Times, saying it engaged in a “virtual act of treason” for a story that...

One person was killed and several others sustained injuries after a gunman open fired at a graduation party in Southwest Philadelphia on Sunday (local time).According...

The United States warned on Monday that the world must not give in to Iranian "extortion," after Tehran said it would surpass the uranium stockpile...

Egypt’s former president, Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country’s first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a...

Four members of an Indian-origin family, including two boys, were shot dead inside their home in West Des Moines, United States.The incident took place on...

A conservative was sworn in on Saturday as Madrid’s new mayor, regaining control of the Spanish capital for the People’s Party after forging a coalition...

The Group of 20 major economies was set to seal a deal on reducing marine plastic waste at a meeting in Japan on Sunday where...

The Notre-Dame Cathedral will host its first mass on Saturday, exactly two months after the devastating blaze that caused its famous spire to collapse.The Archdiocese...

Thousands of women across Switzerland walked off the job, burned bras and blocked traffic Friday in a day of demonstrations to demand fairer pay, more...

Broadcom Inc. sent a shockwave through the global chipmaking industry on Friday with its forecast that U.S.-China trade tensions and the ban on doing business...

The busy Newark airport serving the New York area was briefly closed Saturday after a United Airlines flight experienced multiple flat tires upon landing and...

The United States has doubled the number of asylum seekers it sends back each day to Mexico from El Paso, Texas, a Mexican immigration official...

For safety reasons, worshippers attending the first mass at Notre-Dame since the devastating fire will be expected to don hard hats.The Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris...

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, whose tenure was marked by a breakdown in regular press briefings and questions about the administration’s credibility, as well...

The man accused of the New Zealand mosque attacks smirked as his lawyer entered not guilty pleas to terrorism, murder and attempted murder charges Friday...

Boris Johnson, who has pledged to deliver Brexit on Oct. 31, surged closer to power on Thursday, winning by far the most support from Conservative...

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Thursday handed over five orphans born to families belonging to the Islamic State group to the Belgian authorities, an...

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was "in no rush" to make a deal with North Korea to get it to dismantle its...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would see nothing wrong in accepting damaging information on a US political opponent if it were offered to...

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had a "feeling" that a US-China trade deal could be reached but again threatened to increase tariffs...

The local police on Wednesday sought additional 12-hour detention of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain, who was arrested by the Scotland Yard in...

The U.S. House expects to receive the first files of underlying evidence from Robert Mueller’s report soon, after a sudden shift by the Justice Department...

The Vatican issued an official document Monday rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual “complementarity” of...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he received a "very beautiful" and "very warm" letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un amid the...

Fancy starting your morning with some grub granola? Or having a wrap for lunch made with insect flour? How about ending the day with stir-fried...

You’ve heard about the International Space Station for years. Want to visit? NASA announced Friday that the orbiting outpost is now open for business to...

The United States and Russia accused each other of unsafe actions on Friday after an American guided-missile cruiser and a Russian destroyer came within 50...

The United States on Friday raised the stakes in its standoff with Turkey over Ankara’s deal to acquire a Russian air defense system, laying out...

Police say a man threatened another person with a BB gun during an LGBTQ pride parade in the nation's capital, setting off a panic that...

Under a wooden arch decorated with white balloons in a small house in Caracas’ largest slum, the body of 11-year-old Erick Altuve lay in a...

Commuters at a London station got up close and personal with a World War II icon on Friday, when a replica Supermarine Spitfire went on...

A disgruntled public utility employee opened fire with a handgun on co-workers at a municipal building in Virginia on Friday afternoon, killing 12 people and...

A disgruntled veteran public utilities employee stormed a government building in the US State of Virginia and fired indiscriminately on multiple floors at his co-workers,...

The United States is slated to revoke India's status as a beneficiary developing country for purposes of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) from June...

US President Donald Trump threw his weight behind Boris Johnson's campaign to be Britain's next prime minister and urged all candidates to pledge boost defence...

A disgruntled public utility employee opened fire on co-workers at city offices in Virginia Beach, Va., on Friday afternoon, killing 12 people and wounding several...

U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan on Saturday denounced China’s efforts to steal technology from other nations and militarize man-made outposts in the South China...

US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, R Clarke Cooper will travel to India in early June to discuss defence cooperation and peacekeeping between...

U.S. Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday that charging President Donald Trump with a crime was “not an option” because of federal rules, but he...

A decades-old royal paternity scandal is setting Belgium abuzz again.Lawyers said Tuesday that Belgium’s former King Albert II, 84, has finally agreed to a DNA...

United States President Donald Trump on Thursday defended himself on a recent controversy over his administration wanting the USS John McCain "out of sight" during...

European Union leaders stood divided Tuesday over who to name to the bloc’s top jobs, after elections shredded comfortable old political alliances and raised troubling...

Britain’s two main parties set the stage on Monday for a battle over a no-deal Brexit, hoping to win back voters who abandoned them for...

Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales on Tuesday imposed water restrictions for the first time in a decade with dam levels at just...

The US State Department said Tuesday that North Korea's overall program of weapons of mass destruction violated UN resolutions, after President Donald Trump brushed off...

The presidents of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia criticized a recent decision by the organization that manages internet protocol to grant global retailer Amazon Inc....

At least 42 inmates were killed in clashes in four prisons in northern Brazil on Monday, authorities said, a day after violence in one of...

Anti-EU populist Nigel Farage admitted Monday that his Brexit Party lacked policies beyond pulling Britain out of Europe and would now consult supporters for a...

Sebastian Kurz, Austria's chancellor, on Monday ousted in a no-confidence vote just a day after his centre-right Austrian People's Party enjoyed a triumphant victory in...

International police group Interpol said Thursday that nine people had been arrested in Thailand, Australia and the US and 50 children had been rescued after...

A tornado leveled a motel and tore through a mobile home park near Oklahoma City overnight, killing two people and injuring at least 29 others...

US President Donald Trump pressed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday to even out a trade imbalance with the United States and expressed confidence,...

New evidence has emerged linking the embattled head of Colombia’s army to the alleged cover-up of civilian killings more than a decade ago.The documents, provided...

Thousands of Israelis gathered here on Saturday night to protest against attempts to pass legislation that would grant protection to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from...

Wracked with pain and anger, dozens of families gathered in front of a morgue in the Venezuelan town of Acarigua on Saturday after 29 inmates...

Kenya’s high court on Friday upheld a law banning gay sex, keeping same sex relations punishable by 14 years in jail in the East African...

The contest to replace Theresa May as British prime minister hotted up on Saturday with seven candidates now throwing their hat into the ring, saying...

At least 23 inmates were killed and 14 police wounded in clashes at a jail in western Venezuela on Friday, an NGO that defends prisoner...

U.S. President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. intelligence community to “quickly and fully cooperate” with Attorney General William Barr’s investigation of the origins of...

An explosion Friday on a busy pedestrian street in the French city of Lyon injured seven people, local officials said.The cause of the blast that...

US President Donald Trump, engaged in personal attacks on House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, retweeted a heavily edited video that falsely claimed the Democratic...

Britain has shared with 16 NATO allies details of malicious Russian cyber activity in their countries over the last 18 months, foreign minister Jeremy Hunt...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro surmounted a crucial hurdle for his young government on Wednesday by winning approval from disgruntled lower house lawmakers for his move...

The Canadian government has promised to take back its waste, which has been rotting in the Philippines for more than five years, by the end...

Twenty-five years after premiering “Pulp Fiction” in Cannes, Quentin Tarantino returned to the French film festival with neither great vengeance nor furious anger but a...

McDonald's Corp was accused on Tuesday in 25 new lawsuits and regulatory charges of condoning sexual harassment in the workplace and retaliating against employees who...

President Donald Trump voiced confidence on Monday in his ability to win a repeat victory in Pennsylvania in 2020 and took a fresh swipe at...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday proposed early elections for the National Assembly, which is headed by opposition leader Juan Guaido and is the sole...

As questions mount over President Donald Trump's tough talk on Iran, top national security officials are heading to Capitol Hill to brief Congress. But skeptical...

US President Donald Trump warned on Monday Iran would be met with "great force" if it attacked US interests in the Middle East, and government...

Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy took the oath of office on Monday and immediately announced he was dissolving parliament and calling a snap election, aiming...

Anti-money laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank AG recommended in 2016 and 2017 that multiple transactions involving entities controlled by President Donald Trump and his son-in-law,...

The UK government on Monday announced a fresh crackdown on its nationals travelling to ISIS territory in Syria as it revealed that Britain's security forces...

Italy’s anti-migrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini led a rally of right-wing populist leaders Saturday seeking historic results in next week’s European Parliament elections in their...

Sailors belonging to US Navy submarine circulated sexually explicit lists that ranked female members aboard, an investigation found. The list, first mentioned and reported by...

A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus on Sunday near the Giza Pyramids, wounding at least 17 people including tourists, Egyptian officials said. The officials...

Gunmen killed at least 11 people in a bar in northern Brazil on Sunday, officials said.The shooting took place in the city of Belem, the...

Boeing acknowledged Saturday it had to correct flaws in its 737 MAX flight simulator software used to train pilots, after two deadly crashes involving the...

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called Saturday for an early election after his vice chancellor resigned over a covertly shot video that showed him apparently promising...

Australia's Liberal-led conservative government was headed for a remarkable win at the national election early on Sunday after uncovering a narrow path to victory that...

Pakistani-origin London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for similar preferential norms for Indian companies and students as those offered to China in order to boost...

A Claude Monet painting from his celebrated “Meules” (Haystacks) series fetched $110.7 million in New York on Tuesday in an auction record for the French...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will launch another push next month to approve Britain’s exit from the European Union before the summer break, setting a...

US President Donald Trump will outline on Thursday a plan to harden border security and overhaul the legal immigration system to favour applicants who speak...

The leader of an Austrian far-right group has confirmed a media report that he had more extensive contact with the suspect behind deadly mosque attacks...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next month as the trade war between the world’s two largest...

Embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya has settled a legal dispute with Swiss bank UBS to allow him time until April next year to pay off...

Prime Minister Theresa May's government will publish draft legislation in the first week of June that would allow Brexit to proceed if approved by parliament,...

The Trump administration asked the U.S. Congress on Monday to increase NASA spending next year by an extra $1.6 billion as a “down payment” to...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied a New York Times report that US officials were discussing a military plan to send up to 120,000 troops...

San Francisco is on track to become the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition by police and other city agencies, reflecting...

US President Donald Trump warned on Monday Iran would "suffer greatly" if it targeted US interests after Washington deployed an aircraft carrier and more jet...

It makes sense for the United States to get along with Russia, US President Donald Trump said Monday on the eve of the meeting between...

The Associated Press If a new Mississippi law survives a court challenge, it will be nearly impossible for most pregnant women to get an abortion...

Cuban gay rights activists held an unauthorized independent pride parade in Havana on Saturday despite the Communist government warning against it and calling it subversive,...

US President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping could meet next month on the sidelines of the G20 summit to hash out their differences on...

Accusing China of breaking the negotiated trade deal draft with the United States, President Donald Trump on Sunday said Beijing was now "dreaming" that he...

 A judicial inquiry into whether New Zealand's police and intelligence services could have prevented the Christchurch mosque attacks in which 51 worshippers died began taking...

Amid rising fears over US-Chinese trade tensions and mounting tariffs, President Donald Trump said Saturday that firms could easily avoid additional costs by producing goods...

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on Saturday marked its weakest victory in national elections in a quarter-century, while President Cyril Ramaphosa declared that the...

A North Korean cargo ship seized by the United States because of suspicion it was used to violate international sanctions arrived Saturday at the capital...

French lawmakers approved a controversial law to restore Notre-Dame Cathedral within five years Friday, following the famous Paris landmark sustaining major fire damage last month.Renovating...

South Africans voted Wednesday in presidential and parliamentary elections, with signs of a relatively low turnout and voters saying they were disillusioned by widespread corruption...

 Australia’s central bank has taken responsibility for typos on 46 million bank notes after a radio station posted an image of the microscopic error on...

The Trump administration is arguing in court that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down as unconstitutional. But at the same time, Justice...