Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 02.04.2017 -  Four Delhi students who were arrested for allegedly chasing textiles minister Smriti Irani’s car were booked for stalking and using offensive gestures and language, police said on Sunday.  &nb

British Special Air Service has launched a series of devastating aerial assaults behind Islamic State’s lines – claiming a decisive victory over the terrorist group and paving the way for a final battle to wipe out the jihadis in their st

Flynn, who resigned as Trump’s security adviser after just 24 days, has sent the request to both the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees, the Wall Street Journal reports.  

Libya, (Courtesy Al-Jazeera), 30.03.2017 - A rubber boat packed with nearly 150 migrants sank in the Mediterranean and the presumed sole survivor - a 16-year-old Gambian boy - told rescuers he believed all other passengers drowned.  

BEENLEIGH AFP March31, 2017- A woman’s body was found Friday and tens of thousands of people were evacuated from towns in two Australian states after torrential rain caused by a powerful tropical cyclone.   

Almost 5,000 Ford cars are being recalled after seven vehicles erupted into flames across Australia.   

(Daily Mail, London), 31 March 2017 -  Israel’s security cabinet on Thursday approved the building of the first new settlement in the occupied West Bank in nearly two decades, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu negotiates with Washi

Prime Minister Theresa May will file formal Brexit divorce papers , pitching the United Kingdom into the unknown and triggering years of uncertain negotiations that will test the endurance of the European Union.  

REUTERS, 29th MARCH, 2017- The Scottish parliament backed a bid to hold a new independence referendum in 2018 or 2019, but the British government immediately rejected the proposal.  

HINDUSTAN TIMES, 29th MARCH, 2017-   A restive Kashmir shut down to protest the killing of three civilians by security forces during an encounter with militants in Budgam district, raising possibilities of another prolonged unrest in the militan

Iraqi special forces and police fought Islamic State militants to edge closer to the al-Nuri mosque in western Mosul on Wednesday, tightening their control around the landmark site in the battle to recapture Iraq’s second city, military command

AFP, 29th MARCH, 2017-  The city of Paris dumped French-Swiss group LafargeHolcim as supplier of sand for the makeshift “Paris Plages” beach over the company’s readiness to supply cement for US President Donald Trump’s co

Cyclone Debbie’s ‘destructive core’ has finally struck the north coast of Queensland, bringing devastating gale-force winds with gusts of 275km/h, record-breaking rainfall and surging tides threatening widespread floods.

No matter the jihadists’ claiming of responsibility online for the brazen assault on Parliament that killed four people. 52-year-old Khalid Masood “clearly had an interest in jihad,” said Neil Basu, deputy assistant commissioner of

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was jailed for 15 days after the largest anti-government demonstrations for at least five years energized President Vladimir Putin’s critics as presidential elections loom.   

Until now there has been a stark contrast between the tactics of the U.S.-backed military campaign to recapture Mosul, Iraq, from the Islamic State and those of Russian and Syrian government forces attacking rebels in neighboring Syria. The latter ha

On Monday, March 20, Denis Voronenkov met a Post journalist in the lobby bar of Kiev’s five-star Premier Palace Hotel, along with his wife, seeming to feel he was in danger. “For our personal safety, we can’t let them know where we

Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance on Sunday entered a military airport held by the Islamic State jihadist group in northern Syria, a spokesman said.   

ISLAMABAD REUTERS March 27- Pakistan has begun building a fence on its disputed 2,500 km (1,500 mile) border with Afghanistan to prevent incursions by militants, Pakistan’s army chief said, in a move likely to further strain relations between t

Hundreds of Russians including Progress  Party leader Alexei Navalny were arrested today as thousands defied  bans to stage anti-corruption protests across the country.

Tokyo, (Daily Mail, London), 27 March 2017 -  About 70 Japanese schoolchildren and teachers were said to be at a ski resort near Tokyo when an avalanche struck, injuring many and several feared dead.   

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party scored a convincing victory over their centre-left rivals in a state poll Sunday seen as the first test ahead of national elections.   

A battle against Islamic State to recapture the Syrian city of Raqqa is likely to start in the coming days, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Friday. 

The attacker who ploughed a car through a throng of pedestrians and then stabbed a policeman outside Britain’s parliament was named on Thursday as Khalid Masood, a British-born man who was once investigated by MI5 intelligence officers over con

Youngsters who look at screens for more than three hours a day are fatter and have greater insulin resistance, a study found.

The Rubik’s cube was devised by Hungarian architect Erno Rubik more than 30 years ago, but he likely never envisioned his puzzle being cracked this quickly.

The German carmaker has unveiled a new Maybach with a retractable roof and a V12 engine, along with high-tech amenities such as thermal cup holders and folding tables stashed in the middle console.

The terrorist who killed three and injured at least 29 in yesterday’s Westminster attack was British born and had previously been investigated by MI5.   

Thousands were evacuated after the blowing up of a warehouse storing tank ammunition at an eastern military base early on Thursday morning,   

GENEVA REUTERS March 23 - About 400,000 Iraqi civilians are trapped in the Islamic State-held Old City of western Mosul, short of food and basic needs as the battle between the militants and government forces rages around them, the United Nations ref