Pope Francis waves upon his arrival to Cathedral in Santiago, Cuba, 22 September 2015. Pope Francis’s first visit to Cuba ended with a mass in Santiago. The pope delivered the last sermon of his Cuban…
Milan, April 8 (IANS) Former chief executive officer of Italian group Finmeccanica Giuseppe Orsi, and former head of AgustaWestland Bruno Spagnolini were sentenced to jail for false accounting and corruption in deals, reports from Italy…
(160330) — GENEVA, March 30, 2016 (Xinhua) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers a speech at the opening of high level meeting on global responsibility sharing for Syrian refugees in Geneva, Switzerland, March 30, 2016….
King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia.(Photo: IANS/PIB) Cairo, April 8 (IANS) Egypt and Saudi Arabia agreed on Friday to establish a land bridge to connect the two countries, visiting King Salman Bin…
Beijing, April 8 (IANS) Chinese President Xi Jinping met Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe here on Friday and discussed issues of core interests. China is willing to work with Sri Lanka to consolidate traditional…
Beijing, April 8 (IANS) China said on Friday it is in “contact” with India over Beijing’s decision to block New Delhi’s move to ban Pathankot terror attack mastermind, Jaish-e-Mohamed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar. Chinese foreign…
Cairo, April 8 (IANS) Egypt and Saudi Arabia announced their keenness to enhance bilateral ties and boost cooperation in all fields as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held talks with visiting Saudi King Salman…
Washington, April 8 (IANS) As Pakistan’s envoy to New Delhi announced that the bilateral peace process has been “suspended”, the Obama administration has asked India and Pakistan to engage in “direct dialogue that is aimed…
Kathmandu, April 8 (IANS) In a crackdown on circulation of fake Indian currency in Nepal, police here on Friday said they have arrested six people, including a Pakistani national, for possessing fake Indian currency notes…
Pope Francis waves upon his arrival to Cathedral in Santiago, Cuba, 22 September 2015. Pope Francis’s first visit to Cuba ended with a mass in Santiago. The pope delivered the last sermon of his Cuban…
Lhasa, April 8 (IANS) A commercial complex aimed at boosting bilateral trade at the China-Nepal border broke ground on Friday morning in Tibet’s Burang county. According to local officials, the Tanggar International Border Trade Market…
Havana, April 8 (IANS) Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro appeared in public on Thursday by visiting a school here to mark the birthday of his late sister-in-law, a revolutionary heroine. Castro visited the educational complex…
Melbourne, April 8 (IANS) Pro surfers have been forced out of the water at a World Surf League (WSL) event in Western Australia after a shark came within meters of launching an attack on the…
By Saeed Naqvi Polarized politics is what pundits were expecting from the party and its principal leader with an eye on polls in key states. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised people by turning up…
Mumbai, April 8 (IANS) Britain’s Serious Fraud Office has opened a criminal investigation into Tata Steel’s UK operations, which the company is looking to sell, according to reports appearing in the British media. The Daily…
London, April 8 (IANS) An international team of scientists has successfully detected a mysterious new state of matter that causes electrons — thought to be nature’s indivisible building blocks — to break into pieces. The…
Damascus, April 8 (IANS) At least 175 of the 300 workers kidnapped by the Islamic State are believed to have been killed in a town northeast of the capital Damascus, the media reported on Friday….
Toronto, April 8 (IANS) The fluctuations of your heartbeat may affect your wisdom, finds an interesting study suggesting that the heart rate variation and thinking process work together to enable wise reasoning about complex social…
London, April 8 (IANS) The child in the womb of an obese mother, who develops gestational diabetes, is five times more likely to grow larger in size by the sixth month of pregnancy, finds a…
Beijing, April 8 (IANS) Chinese police have arrested a man for allegedly assaulting a woman in a Beijing hotel in an incident captured on security camera that has drawn public outcry. The 24-year-old suspect surnamed…