MIAMI - As Hurricane Irma dissipated into a tropical storm on Monday, Florida’s residents emerged to streets littered with debris and downed trees while nearly two-thirds of the state was left without electricity.  

Over the past 2½ weeks, the coastal borderland between Myanmar and Bangladesh has become the site of almost incomprehensible misery and suffering.   

“Speaking from Miami’s Emergency Operations Center in downtown, where the city’s senior public safety and political authorities will ride out Category 4 Hurricane Irma this weekend, [Republican] Mayor Tomás Regalado told the

Hurricane Irma began its destructive barrage on Florida on Saturday, with brutal leading winds flattening trees and knocking out power across the southern tip of the state in what residents feared were the opening blows of a historically  devast

YANGON AFP Sept10, 2017- Rohingya militants, whose August 25 raids in Myanmar’s Rakhine State sparked an army crackdown that has seen nearly 300,000 of the Muslim minority flee to Bangladesh, 

REUTERS, 10th SEPTEMBER, 2017-North Korea’s “reckless behavior” is a global threat and requires a global response, the head of the NATO military alliance said on Sunday.

Seoul, (Hindustan times), 10 Sept. 2017 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un praised the “perfect success” of the country’s sixth and largest nuclear test and urged further weapons development, according to state media on Sunday, in th

Midnapore, (Hindustan Times), 8 Sept. 2017 -  In a rerun of the Robinson Street skeleton case of Kolkata, a 35-year-old man spent three days with the lifeless body of his mother in Durgapur town in West Bengal.  

At least five have been killed including two children after a massive 8.1 earthquake struck off the south coast of Mexico triggering a tsunami.  

DAILY MAIL, 8 September, 2017 -  Islamic State militants attempting to evacuate members stranded in the Syrian desert are being pummeled by US-led coalition air strikes, the military said Thursday.    ‘Like moths to a flame,&rsqu

HINDUSTAN TIMES, 8 September, 2017 -  It was the fast-flowing river that doomed the inhabitants of Tula Toli. 

REUTERS, 8 September, 2017-  Thousands of victims of Colombia’s five-decade war will seek blessings, guidance and a path to forgiveness from Pope Francis on Friday, during his visit to a region that for years has been known as an epicenter

HINDUSTAN TIMES, 8 September, 2017 -  Pakistan has made great sacrifices in fighting terror and has a clear conscience, China said on Friday, barely five days after Beijing joined other Brics members in condemning the terror groups operating fro

Hurricane Irma howled past Puerto Rico with 185mph winds after reducing the tiny tropical islands of Barbuda and St Martin to rubble and claiming at least ten lives.  

DAMASCUS AFP Sept7, 2017 -  Syria’s army accused Israeli warplanes of hitting one of its positions Thursday, killing two people in an attack that a monitor said targeted a site where the regime allegedly produces chemical weapons.  &n

Vladivostok, Daily Mail), 7 September 2017 -  North Korea will never freeze its weapons programmes because it views them as its only means of self defence, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.  

UK, (Daily Mail), 7 September 2017 -  Britain’s Labour Party and trade unions yesterday threatened Prime Minister Theresa May with a fresh round of strikes unless she agrees to increases in public sector pay.  

(c) 2017, The Washington Post · Sep 07, 2017 -   In early 2016, as the field of Republican candidates winnowed, Bob Dole said that Donald Trump was preferable to Ted Cruz because he could “probably work with Congress.”  

REUTERS, 6 September, 2017- Libyan security forces said on Tuesday that the bodies of 16 migrants had been found in the desert near the country’s border with Egypt.   

The murder of senior journalist and editress Gauri Lankesh in her home in Bengaluru has brought the focus back on the perilous conditions journalists in India work in.   

REUTERS, 6 September, 2017  -China on Wednesday dismissed Vietnamese condemnation of its military live-fire exercises in the disputed South China Sea, saying it was acting within its sovereign rights.  

The Syrian army has reached an eastern city that has been besieged by Islamic State militants for nearly three years.

 (Daily Mail), 5 September 2017 -  Women were the ‘driving force’ spreading new ideas and technologies across Britain and Europe during the Stone Age – while their menfolk stayed home, a surprising new study has found. &nb

North Korea’s advancing nuclear weapons program isn’t the only news to unnerve arms-control experts this summer. A new survey has revealed that Americans are surprisingly willing to make a first nuclear strike -- and kill millions of civi

The University of Utah hospital where a nurse was manhandled and arrested by police as she protected the legal rights of a patient has imposed new restrictions on law enforcement, including barring officers from patient care areas and from direct con

BEIRUT - U.S.-backed forces in Syria have captured the Old City of Raqqa, the latest milestone in their ongoing assault against the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State’s rapidly shrinking territories, according to a U.S. military state

S. Korea claimed this morning Kim Jong-un is plotting another ballistic test. The news broks after Seoul simulated its own missile raid on the North, in the wake of the dictator’s hydrogen bomb test.  

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge who are expecting their third child were forced to tell the world early today because Kate has again been struck down with severe morning sickness.   

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she wants to end Turkey’s application for European Union membership.   

The BRICS Summit began in Xiamen in China on Monday, with a group photograph of leaders of the five countries and was preceded by a handshake between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who received the leaders of Brazil, R