Johannesburg, March 12 (IANS) A South African teen holidaymaker may have found a piece of debris that could be a part of the missing Malaysian airliner MH370, aviation authorities has said. The metre-long piece of…
Gaza, March 12 (IANS) A ten-year-old boy was killed on Saturday morning in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, Xinhua quoted medics and security officials as saying.
Lima, March 12 (IANS/EFE) The governing Peruvian Nationalist Party on Friday withdrew from the April 10 elections, asking electoral authorities to remove from the ballot the names of all PNP candidates for national office. The…
Washington, March 12 (IANS) US astronaut Scott Kelly, who recently completed a year-long mission on the International Space Station, will retire from NASA effective April 1, the US space agency said on Friday. NASA said…
London, March 12 (IANS) Britain will be “stronger, safer and better off” if it votes to stay in the European Union (EU), British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday. Speaking at the Welsh Conservative…
Sao Paulo, March 12 (IANS/EFE) A rainstorm that struck the Sao Paulo metropolitan area has left at least 21 people dead, a dozen injured and several cities flooded, official sources reported on Friday. Four people…
New York, March 12 (IANS) The US dollar increased against euro on Friday as a European Central Bank’s (ECB) official signalled that the bank may unleash more stimulus plans in the future. Erkki Liikanen, an…
Washington, March 12 (IANS/EFE) Researchers at Japan’s Kyoto University have discovered a type of bacteria that uses only two enzymes to break down plastic, according to a study published in the journal Science. After five…
Juba, March 12 (IANS) Fresh fighting in previously peaceful areas of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state has forced thousands of people to flee into countries including Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and even…
London, March 12 (IANS/EFE) Mary Cameron, mother of British Prime Minister David Cameron, has challenged government policies of public sector cuts applied by her son, feeling “very sad” for the end of a children’s centre…
Sao Paulo, March 12 (IANS/EFE) A rainstorm that lashed this Brazilian metropolis and its suburbs left at least 15 dead, a dozen injured and several cities flooded, authorities announced on Friday. Four people died in…
Cairo, March 12 (IANS) The Arab League on Friday declared the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah paramilitary group as a terrorist organisation, Egypt’s state-run Ahram online reported. The decision was backed by all member states except for…
Rome, March 11 (IANS/AKI) An attorney, a doctor and several IT experts are among 122 would-be suicide-bombers on a stolen list of over 1,700 alleged Islamic State members published this week by Syrian website Zaman…
Rome, March 11 (IANS/AKI) The Italian police on Friday arrested 19 officials, road contractors and a lawyer amid a widening probe into alleged corruption at the state-owned road construction agency ANAS. A finance police statement…
Moscow, March 11 (IANS) The exclusion of the Syrian Kurds from the upcoming intra-Syrian reconciliation talks in Geneva will only feed separatism in the war-torn country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. “A…
Taipei, March 11 (IANS) Two people were killed and another was in critical condition when a rescue helicopter with five people on board plunged into waters off New Taipei City in northern Taiwan on Friday…
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Among the things Mexico can learn from India is dealing with the diaspora, the Latin American country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Claudia Ruiz-Massieu Salinas said on Friday. “India has the…
Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) Gunmen shot dead a senior military officer in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday in a terror attack, officials said. The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility shortly after the incident….
Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) The Pakistan government on Friday officially decided to send the national men’s and women’s cricket teams to India to take part in the ongoing World Twenty20 tournament. The national cricket teams…
New York, March 11 (IANS) Becoming an elder brother or sister before pre-school days can lower a child’s risk of becoming obese, researchers suggest, adding that children who didn’t have a sibling are three times…