At least 96 houses were destroyed in the huge ongoing Southern California wildfire, while firefighters made more progress containing the blaze. T...
Federal health officials on Friday warned pregnant women not to travel to trendy Miami Beach after Florida confirmed that the mosquito-borne Zika vi...
In the first gesture to fulfil his pledge that he and his wife made last year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sold $95 million of the social netwo...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said in a message on World Humanitarian Day Friday that a record 130 million people depend on assistance to surviv...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he regretted causing pain to people by not choosing the "right words" sometimes and uttering "...
The US has accepted more than 53,000 Hindu refugees since 2005, almost all from Bhutan while 11 from India, according to the State Department.Between ...
As Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton targets to break the "highest glass ceiling" in the US, three Indian-Americans figure in a list o...
Twitter has shut down 360,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts since the middle of 2015, the company said in a blog post on Thursd...
The world's "largest aircraft" embarked on its maiden flight on Wednesday, four days after a previous attempt was abandoned due to technical issues. T...
Terrorism-monitoring company Site Intelligence Group (Site) has said that Hamza bin Laden, the son of al-Qaida’s slain founder Osama bin Laden, has ur...
Brazilian police pulled two US Olympic swimmers off a plane about to leave the country for questioning in a row over their claim to have been victims ...
Australia has agreed to close a controversial asylum seeker detention centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG). PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said, he met ...
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has a 6-percentage-point lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos trackin...
A diplomat at the North Korean embassy in London has defected and fled abroad with his family, a South Korean media reported today citing a well-infor...
Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman enthralled a packed audience at the iconic UN General Assembly hall with his renditions of Indian Carnatic legend M...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has proposed an "extreme vetting process" for new immigrants to prevent entry of radicalised ones into ...
In United States, devastating floods have killed at least six people and pushed thousands people from their homes at southern Louisiana. Governor of L...
Nigerian troops have killed 16 Boko Haram militants in country's volatile northeast at Kangarwa in Borno state. An army spokesman said, troops s...
A moderate 5.2-magnitude earthquake in Peru has killed at least nine people and injured more than 50. Among the killed was a US tourist. Officia...
The John F Kennedy International Airport here was today partly evacuated due to what US law enforcement authorities described as "abundance of cauti...
In the United States, an imam and another unidentified person were shot in the head near a mosque in Queens neighbourhood of New York, police said. ...
Presidents of Venezuela and Colombia have announced the border between the two countries will be reopened. The border will be opened at five crossin...
U.S. Ambassador to India Rich Verma tweeted apology to Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan for his detention at the Los Angeles airport on Friday...
At least four people have been killed in eight bomb blasts that have hit across Thailand in the past 24 hours, in the resort town of Hua Hin and south...
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was detained at the Los Angeles airport for questioning by the US immigration department. "I fully understand & res...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday tried to raise ethical questions about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and criticized her f...
A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Twitter that accused the micro-blogging site for the rise of the Islamic State (IS) terror group by providi...
Afghanistan has sought more military supplies from India including attack helicopters as it stepped up its offensive last week against terror groups. ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that gun rights activists could act to stop his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton fro...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to work toward restoring full relations with Turkey, but said rebuilding trade ties will be time consuming...
Which political party will win the Jharkhand Assembly elections 2024?