Washington, (The Hindu/AP) March 22, 2018 -  President Donald Trump lashed out at Joe Biden for wanting “beat the hell out of him,” saying Thursday that the former vice president “would go down fast and hard, crying all the way

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized on Wednesday for mistakes his company made in how it handled data belonging to 50 million of its users, and promised tougher steps to restrict developers’ access to such information. 

The largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world, known as the ‘great Pacific garbage patch’, is now three times the size of France, new research has found.  

The suspended chief executive of Cambridge Analytica said in a secretly recorded video broadcast on Tuesday that his UK-based political consultancy’s online campaign played a decisive role in U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 election vi

(Daily Mail), 19 March 2018 -   As many as 153 million deaths linked to air pollution worldwide this century could be prevented if governments speed up timetables for reducing fossil fuel emissions.    That is the claim of a new s

WASHINGTON, AFP March20, 2018  -The US State Department has a $500,000 contract with the British analysis firm facing allegations it misused Facebook user data and offered to dig dirt on its international clients’ election opponents. 

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called on the United States Tuesday to not act “emotionally” and to avoid a trade war, as President Donald Trump considers new punitive measures against Beijing.   

US, (Daily Mail), 20 March 2018 -  Donald Trump Jr had an affair with singer Aubrey O’Day, reports Perez Hilton.  

Kenya, (Daily Mail), 20 March 2018 -  The last male northern white rhino has died in Kenya at the age of 45, leaving only two females of his subspecies alive.  

President Donald Trump fired a barrage of angry statements Sunday railing against the Justice Department special counsel’s Russia investigation and attacking the integrity of former FBI Director James Comey and his former Deputy Andrew McCabe,

RUTERS, 19th MARCH, 2018- Women in Saudi Arabia need not wear headcover or the black abaya - the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of Islamic piety - as long as their attire is “decent and respectful”, the kingdom’s reform-m

By Anton Troianovski, (c) 2018, The Washington Post · Mar 19, 2018 -    MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin cruised to victory Sunday for another six-year presidential term after an election that was long on spectacle and short on suspense. 

Rajkot, (Hindustan Times), Mar 17, 2018 -  An eleven-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by six persons,gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday at the government hospital in Rajkot.  

Dhaka, (Hindustan Times), Mar 19, 2018 - Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Monday stayed the release of former prime minister Khaleda Zia on bail in a corruption case under which she was sentenced to five years imprisonment, in a setback to her pol

President Trump escalated his assault on federal law enforcement agencies Saturday while one of his attorneys -John Dowd- argued that the controversial firing of a top FBI official was reason to end the Justice Department special counsel’s expa

DPA, 18th MARCH, 2018-Russians were heading to the polls on Sunday to cast their votes in a presidential election in which the incumbent, Vladimir Putin, was all but certain to win a fourth term. Putin, who has been in power as president or prime min

JAMMU, (The Washington Post), 18 March 2018 -  Five members of a family were killed and two others wounded on Sunday in cross border shelling between Indian and Pakistani soldiers in disputed Kashmir, officials said.  

 Australia, (Daily Mail), 17 March 2018 -  -A Melbourne mother has sued her son over an alleged unpaid home loan, as more parents using their finances to help their children enter the increasingly competitive property market.  

(The Washington Post/AP), March 17   -The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Sweden all rejected a suggestion by a Russian spokeswoman that the nerve agent which poisoned a former Russian double agent and his daughter might have originated in the

A newly erected pedestrian bridge spanning several lanes of traffic collapsed at Florida International University on Thursday, killing four people, Miami-Dade County Fire Chief Dave Downey said.  

THE HINDU, 16th MARCH, 2018-Tensions between Russia and the West continued to ramp up as France, Germany, Britain and the U.S. jointly accused Russia of involvement in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in early March, which t

REUTERS, 16th MARCH, 2018-U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to replace his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, but the move is not expected to be made immediately, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

REUTERS, 16th MARCH, 2018-South Korean officials began preparations on Friday for a summit next month with North Korea aimed at reducing tensions on the peninsula, as a report showed the North had probably begun testing a nuclear weapon.

HINDUSTAN TIMES, 16th MARCH, 2018-Opposition leaders from Maldives met US government officials in Washington on Thursday and urged them to act “urgently” to prevent the crisis in the island-nation from turning it into a threat to security

Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday levied sanctions against Russia’s top spy agencies and more than a dozen individuals for trying to influence the 2016 US presidential election and conducting separate cyberattacks.   

LAHORE AFP March14, 2018  -At least seven people were killed and 20 wounded late Wednesday in a motorcycle bomb attack on a police check-post near Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, officials said.  

(Daily Mail), 15 March 2018 - Saudi Arabia will rapidly acquire a nuclear weapon if arch-rival Iran develops one, the country’s Crown Prince has warned.   

UK, (Daily Mail), 15 March 2018 -   Russia faces a wall of condemnation from Britain, the US, France and Germany today over the Salisbury nerve agent outrage.   

Britain will expel 23 Russian diplomats accused of engaging in intelligence activities and cancel an invitation for a visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday.

REUTERS, 14th MARCH, 2018-  Stephen Hawking, who sought to explain some of the most complicated questions of life while working under the shadow of a likely premature death, has died at 76.