San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft would allow Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa to activate on the lock screen in the next update to Windows 10. M...
Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday joined international condemnation of US President Donald Trump's xenophobic tweets ab...
London: The two candidates vying to become Britain's next prime minister both condemned on Monday US President Donald Trump's xenophobic tweets about ...
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has asserted that international drug dealers were behind the Easter Sunday attacks as he continued with his ...
Jeddah: The Saudi Ports Authority has prepared a comprehensive operational plan to receive pilgrims arriving by sea through the Jeddah Islamic Port du...
BEIRUT: Regime airstrikes on Tuesday killed nine civilians in rebel-held northwest Syria, the target of months of regime and Russian bombardment, a wa...
United Nations: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned Monday that the United States is “playing with fire,” echoing remarks by Presiden...
Almost a year after the outbreak of Ebola was declared in eastern Congo, the UN has held a high-level meeting in Geneva to take stock of the coordinat...
United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres has expressed sadness at the loss of life and destruction of property due to heavy monsoon rains in India and it...
In the United States, a man has been sentenced to life plus 419 years on federal hate crime charges for deliberately driving his car into anti-racism ...
New Delhi: Pakistan opened its airspace for all civilian traffic on Tuesday morning, sources said, effectively removing the ban on Indian flights that...
UAE's visa waiver for children under-18 will come into effect for the first time this summer - on Monday (today), Federal Authority for Identity and C...
Rockets fired by jihadists Sunday killed six civilians and wounded eight others in the government-held northern city of Aleppo, state news agency repo...
Tropical Storm Barry buffeted the US state of Louisiana on Sunday, bringing more heavy rain and possible tornadoes to the region even as it weakened.A...
Britain will facilitate the release of a seized Iranian tanker if Iran can provide guarantees the vessel would not breach European sanctions on oil sh...
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which is subject to US sanctions over concerns about its ties to the government in Beijing, is planning to make major j...
San Francisco: Hitting a notable milestone, the Android edition of Microsoft Word has crossed the “1 billion installs” mark on Google’s Play Store aft...
In Indonesia, one person has been found dead and hundreds were evacuated after a major 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit the remote Maluku islands yesterda...
In Nepal, the death toll from floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains has reached 60. Twenty-six persons are still missing and thirty-eight hav...
An international arbitration court has imposed a penalty of over five billion dollars on Pakistan for unlawful denial of a mining lease to a company f...
In the US, slow-moving tropical storm Barry weakened after making landfall in the southern state Louisiana.After briefly becoming the first hurricane ...
BEIRUT: The head of Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah said Friday that US ally Israel would not be “neutral” if a war broke out between the United Sta...
A decision of the Nepal government to raise visa fees for foreign tourists will come into effect from July 17, as per the Department of Immigration (D...
CHRISTCHURCH: Dozens of New Zealanders handed in their firearms today as a gun buyback scheme went into operation aimed at ridding the country of semi...
Washington: US Vice President Mike Pence visited an overcrowded migrant camp in Texas on Friday, coming face to face with detainees held in horrific c...
Istanbul: Turkey has continued receiving components of a Russian-made air defence system for a second day, despite Washington's warnings that it will ...
Lahore: For the fifth time, Pakistan extended its airspace ban along its eastern border with India till July 26, the country's civil aviation authorit...
At least 55 Palestinians have been injured in clashes with the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip.According to a statement from the Palestinian Health...
In Somalia, at least seven people have been killed in a suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by Al-Shabaab militants on a hotel in the port town of Kis...
In the United States, Tropical Storm Barry began hitting Louisiana with wind and rain, building towards hurricane strength.With the storm expected to ...
Which political party will win the Delhi Assembly polls to be held on Feb 5?