Acapulco: Fourteen of the 57 students reported missing after weekend shootings that killed six people in the southern state of Guerrero have been located, officials have said. Some were found in their homes or at school, and a search was continuing for the ...

Hong Kong: Hong Kong protesters who braved thunderstorms to stage their third night of pro-democracy rallies began massing Wednesday at the city`s Golden Bauhinia Square as China`s National Day holiday lent their campaign for free elections fresh ...

Washington: It may be all vegetarian dishes and non-alcoholic drinks when President Barack Obama hosts a private dinner at the White House on Monday night for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who himself will take only lime water. According to sources, the ...

Washington: Acting on the strategy charted out by US President Barack Obama to rein in the Islamic State in Syria, the US military in collaboration with its anti-IS partners has targeted the extremists spots in the civil war-struck country, said the Pentagon.

Beirut: The militants of the Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist group are not quite as near the Turkish border as some reports out of Ankara may claim, the Syrian-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (DUP) said Monday. Turkish media had reported that IS forces ...

Beijing: The number of Chinese companies exporting "tools of torture" has surged over the past decade, Amnesty International said Tuesday, with many devices falling into the hands of rights violators worldwide. More than 130 Chinese firms now produce ...

Cairo: At least six Egyptian army personnel were killed today when a military aircraft crashed due to sudden technical error during a training exercise in southern Cairo. The aircraft crashed in the Kom Oshim area of Fayoum governorate, about 100 kilometer ...

Kiev: European football`s top officials said Thursday they wanted to resolve whether or not Crimean clubs can play in Russia or Ukraine within a month, even as Kiev called for sanctions against Moscow. Russia annexed the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula in ...

Incheon: The XVII Asian Games are all set to kick-start officially within a couple of days from now. The two-week long multi-sporting event is going to feature almost 10,000 athletes, which is taking place at the South Korean port city Incheon from September 19 ...

New Delhi: Scientists on Friday announced the discovery the world's first semiaquatic dinosaur - known as the Spinosaurus. Paleontologists found the fossil of this enormous dinosaur in Moroccan desert cliffs. Spinosaurus aegyptiacus is the only known ...

New Delhi: Panic struck Google users around the globe after it was revealed that Russian hackers had targeted the Internet behemoth and posted usernames and passwords of almost five million accounts online. After celebrities and the 'high and mighty' ...

London: The British government will send a consignment of heavy machine guns and ammunition worth 1.6 million pounds (2.6 million dollars) to Iraqi government to help fight the Islamic State (IS), the British defence ministry said Tuesday. The equipments ...

London: British Prime Minister David Cameron made a last minute appeal to Scottish voters on Wednesday to reject independence in a referendum next week as polls showed the campaign on a knife edge. Writing in the Daily Mail newspaper ahead of a ...

The Hague: The ill-fated Malaysia Airlines MH 17 plane was hit by numerous high-energy objects that “pierced the plane at high speed”, a preliminary report released by Dutch experts state on Tuesday. The report further states that there was no human or ...

New Delhi: Prince William is an elated man as his wife- Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, is expecting their second child. The Clarence House had shared the news on Twitter on Monday. Expressing himself, the Duke of Cambridge said, “she is ...

Cairo: US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Arab foreign ministers in Saudi Arabia Wednesday as he bids for a broad coalition against the Islamic State, a senior Egyptian foreign ministry official said. The talks in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, which will ...

Washington: Clusters of severe respiratory illness across a dozen US states have raised concern about the spread of an unusual virus that is striking children but not adults, health officials said Monday. The culprit in most cases identified so far is enterovirus ...

Islamabad: Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif on Monday acknowledged his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi's offer for help in flood relief efforts in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and thanked him for the 'thoughtful' gesture. Sharif said closer collaboration between ...

Islamabad/Lahore: Over 200 people were killed and nearly 400 injured in floods and rain-related incidents in Pakistan, mainly in Punjab province, with four days of torrential downpour leaving a trail of death and devastation. The showers which started last ...

Kiev: Ukraine said Saturday a truce was largely holding in the war-battered east, despite fears it may ultimately fail to halt a pro-Russian insurgency still threatening to tear the country apart. The 12-point pact signed on Friday is the first backed by both Kiev ...