March 19, 2015
An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a tractor-trailer that according to an eyewitness got stuck on the tracks while trying to make a difficult left-hand turn on Monday. One of the train’s car...
The Indian woman IT professional, who was stabbed to death in a Sydney suburb, is believed to have seen her attacker approach and begged for mercy in her final moments, even as the police were investi...
President Barack Obama slapped sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials on Monday, accusing them of perpetrating human rights violations and public corruption in the socialist-governed South American n...
Beijing: China on Sunday said the border dispute with India has been "contained" and the Indian elephant and Chinese dragon should "do more" to strengthen the bilateral cooperation...
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina had a narrow escape when several bombs exploded in a busy commercial area in Dhaka, on Saturday, minutes after her convoy passed through it.Several crude...
Maiduguri, Nigeria: Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram group, newly weakened by a multinational force that has dislodged it from a score of northeastern towns, reportedly pledged formal allegiance to the...
Attackers with guns fixed with silencers killed six people after storming a prayer house in the Afghan capital, Kabul on Saturday evening, according to a government statement.Several men attacked the ...
Buenos Aires flooding from heavy rains has left 12 people dead in Argentina, officials said on Saturday.Swollen rivers in the past weeks have also forced the evacuation of thousands of people. The civ...
Colombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will tour Sri Lanka next week, will lay a wreath at a memorial honouring the IPKF soldiers who died in the country fighting the civil war. Sri Lankan foreign...
Washington: US authorities on Thursday issued an appeal to police and the public to remain "vigilant" against attempts by the Islamic State group to recruit young Americans online.The warnin...
New York: A Delta Air Lines jetliner with 125 passengers and five crew members aboard slid off the runway upon landing during a snowstorm at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday, but officials sai...
There aren't many people whose earnings can make the $690 million that Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman raked in last year look low. But according to the latest filing in his tumultuous divorce case, b...
After six years of planetary observations, scientists at NASA say they have found convincing new evidence that ancient Mars had an ocean.It was probably the size of the Arctic Ocean, larger than previ...
Signalling potentially closer economic ties with India, Sri Lanka has invited several top Indian companies to invest in major projects in the island nation, particularly for collaborations in the manu...
U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert was attacked by a man wielding a razor and screaming that the rival Koreas should be unified, South Korean police and media said Thursday. TV images showed Lippert bleedin...
United Nations: The remarks by one of the Delhi gangrape convict blaming the victim for the assault are "unspeakable", UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson has said, stressing the...
The US ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, has been slashed by a political extremist armed with a razor at a function in Seoul where he was to give a lecture.Lippert, who became Washington’...
Sydney: An Australian High Court ruling on Wednesday opened the door for a radio station at the centre of a royal hoax call controversy to face penalties including losing its license.Sydney station 2D...
DONETSK: Seventeen miners were confirmed dead and rescuers held out little hope for another 16 still missing after a blast at a coal mine in the rebel-held city of Donetsk near the battle front in eas...
TOKYO: The world's oldest person says 117 years doesn't seem like such a long time.Misao Okawa, the daughter of a kimono maker, made the comment on Wednesday, at a celebration a day before her 117th b...
