THE HINDU, 04th JANUARY, 2018- Bangladesh has welcomed 2018 amid fears of political unrest ahead of a crucial general election. Anxiety over a possible return to political instability is growing as the country prepares to elect its 11th Parliament at

UK, (Daily Mail), 4 January 2018 -Britain is braced for further disruption after Storm Eleanor battered the country with gusts of up to 100 mph, plunging tens of thousands of homes into darkness and causing motoring mayhem.  

North Korea reopened a long-closed border hotline with South Korea on Wednesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to mock the North’s leader by saying he has a “bigger and more powerful” nuclear button than he does.&

HINDUSTAN TIMES, 03rd JANUARY, 2018 - At least 48 people died when a bus tumbled down a cliff onto a rocky beach Tuesday along a narrow stretch of highway known as the “Devil’s Curve,” Peruvian police and fire officials said.

REUTERS, 03rd JANUARY, 2018 -  Many businesses in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai closed on Wednesday as protesters from a low-caste community blocked traffic and shopping malls and staged sit-ins on railway lines after clashes with right-win

REUTERS, 03rd JANUARY, 2018- Singapore has banned a film festival from screening a documentary later this week that features a teenage Palestinian female activist whose arrest last month has made her a symbol of resistance to Israeli military occupat

REUTERS, 03rd JANUARY, 2018 - A majority of French people would favour allowing surrogate motherhood, though primarily only for medical reasons, a poll showed on Wednesday, highlighting a shift in attitudes as France prepares to review laws relating

Ten people were killed overnight in the worst violence yet seen in Iran’s protests, local media reported on Monday, while President Hassan Rouhani said the Iranian people would respond to “rioters and lawbreakers”.

DAILY MAIL, 01st JANUARY, 2018- An estimated 1,400 cars were destroyed in a huge fire that raged through a multi-storey parking garage in the northern English city of Liverpool.

SEOUL AFP Jan1, 2018- Kim Jong-Un urged North Korea to mass-produce nuclear warheads and missiles in a defiant New Year message Monday suggesting he would continue to accelerate a rogue weapons programme that has stoked international tensions. 

In a landmark decision, the strongest political party in Israel - the Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - has called for the annexation of a large part of the West Bank.  

The Pope has ordered cards be printed and distributed depicting victims of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki 

Investigators in New York City searched early on Friday for the cause of a blaze that ripped through an apartment building in the borough of the Bronx, killing 12 people including an infant, in the city’s deadliest fire in at least a quarter of

Thousands of Peruvians marched on Thursday to protest the president’s recent pardoning of former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori, calling for new general elections as a graft scandal ensnares established politicians.

 Lebanese politicians on Thursday criticized Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil over a television interview in which he was shown saying that Lebanon did not have an ideological problem with Israel and was not against it having security.

A birthday bash at a pub in a central Mumbai building ended in a tragedy with the death of 14 people, including 11 women, in a blaze that broke out shortly after midnight. Most of the victims died of suffocation.  

REUTERS, 29th DECEMBER, 2017- India’s lower house of parliament passed a bill on Thursday aimed at prosecuting Muslim men who divorce their wives through the “triple talaq”, or instant divorce. The bill now moves to the upper house

Suicide bombers stormed a Shi’ite cultural centre and news agency in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing more than 40 people and wounding scores, many of them students attending a conference.   

By Carol D. Leonnig The Washington Post, 27 December - President Trump’s legal team plans to cast former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn as a liar seeking to protect himself if he accuses the president or his senior aides of any wron

DOUMA AFP Dec28, 2017- A second batch of sick Syrian civilians, most of them children, left the besieged rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta, aid officials said Thursday, but hundreds of critical patients remained trapped.   

 Bangladesh, (REUTERS) 28 Dec- Health workers in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are struggling with a shortage of medics able to administer antitoxins to patients infected with diphtheria that has killed nearly two dozen people, aid offici

(c) 2017, The Washington Post · Nick Miroff · Dec 28, 2017 - In a video released Wednesday by the Islamic State, a one-legged fighter identified by the group as an American called on Muslims in the United States to “take advantage

A gunman has killed one and injured three during a shooting rampage at a Moscow sweet factory.   The attacker, named as Ilya Averyanov, 49, has barricaded himself inside the facility in a southeastern area of the Russian capital and told a

DPA, 27th DECEMBER, 2017-The United States on Tuesday sanctioned two senior officials in North Korea’s unlawful weapons programmes in response to its ongoing development of ballistic missiles.

PARIS AFP Dec27, 2017-French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to “lift entirely the blockade” against Yemen so that humanitarian aid can be delivered to the food-deprived state.   

THE HINDU, 27th DECEMBER, 2017-China on Tuesday flagged the possible inclusion of Afghanistan in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) — a move that is likely to irk India.

DPA, 27th DECEMBER, 2017-More than 3.2 million people have applied since German unification nearly three decades ago for access to their personal files kept by the former feared communist East German secret police, the head of the Stasi records offic

Christians celebrated Christmas in Iraq’s second city of Mosul for the first time in four years today - and hymns and cries of joy flooded the church.   

Islamabad (DAWN.COM) - Kulbhushan Jadhav’s wife and mother met the convicted Indian spy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after arriving in Islamabad on Monday morning via a commercial flight.

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis in his Christmas eve mass Sunday urged the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics not to ignore the plight of migrants who are “driven from their land” because of leaders willing to shed “innocent bloo