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    Signs are held up showing Breonna Taylor during a rally in her honor on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort. The city of Louisville will pay several million dollars to the mother of Breonna Taylor and install police reforms as part of a settlement of a lawsuit from Taylors family, The Associated Press has learned. (AP)World
    Louisville to pay $12 million settlement over Breonna Taylor's death

    Taylor's death, alongside that of George Floyd, gave rise to one of the largest anti-racism protest movements in US...

    16 Sept 2020 4:09 PM IST

    The Bobcat Fire burns on a hillside on September 15, 2020 in Monrovia, California. Californias national forests remain closed due to wildfires which have already incinerated a record 2.5 million acres this year. The Bobcat Fire, burning in the San Gabriel Mountains, has grown to over 40,000 acres. (AFP)World
    Satellite data shows smoke from US fires has reached as far as Europe

    Estimates show that the blazes have spewed out more than 30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide since mid-August this year

    16 Sept 2020 3:49 PM IST

    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan underwent a test for the novel coronavirus on Wednesday. (AFP Photo)India
    Pakistan is an epicenter of terrorism: India at Geneva

    India also rejected the reference made by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to Jammu and Kashmir, which is an...

    16 Sept 2020 2:20 PM IST

    Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden. Biden responded by telling a Florida radio station \Im looking forward to the debate and hes a fool. The comments are just foolish.\ (AFP)World
    Trump accuses Biden of taking performance-enhancing substance

    Trump repeated his demand that Biden should undergo a drug test before their first of three presidential debates...

    16 Sept 2020 2:13 PM IST

    Kangana RanautIndia
    BMC demolition fallout: Kangana Ranaut seeks compensation of Rs 2...

    The actress claimed that the BMC's action was because she was recently at loggerheads with the Maharashtra government"

    16 Sept 2020 1:51 PM IST

    Thirteen detained after fire near second migrant camp in GreeceWorld
    Thirteen detained after fire near second migrant camp in Greece

    The Lesbos fire at Moria camp on September 8 had left over 12,000 asylum seekers homeless

    16 Sept 2020 1:25 PM IST

    Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das. (PTI Photo)Business
    RBI governor Shaktikant Das: Indian economy will recovery gradually

    Indian economy contracted 23.9 per cent in the first quarter of the current financial year

    16 Sept 2020 1:11 PM IST

    NSA Advisor Ajit Doval, attends the seventh meeting of BRICS senior representatives on security issues held at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse near front back to camera in Beijing. (Photo: AP)India
    New Pakistan map: Ajit Doval walks out of SCO meet

    Russia, as the Chair, tried very hard to persuade Pakistan not rake up Kashmir isse at the SCO

    16 Sept 2020 12:34 PM IST

    Smoke and flames are seen following an Israeli air strike in the Khan Yunis town of the southern Gaza Strip on September 16, 2020. - Israel bombed sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, Palestinian security sources said, after rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled territory into Israel the previous evening. The retaliatory attack came the morning after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed a landmark accord in Washington establishing diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. (AFP)World
    Israeli jets bomb Gaza, 'coinciding' with Netanyahu's signing of...

    At least two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip the previous evening, one of which was intercepted by Israel's...

    16 Sept 2020 12:11 PM IST

    Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, receives flowers from Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga after Suga was elected as new head of Japans ruling party at the Liberal Democratic Partys (LDP) leadership election, in Tokyo. (AP)World
    Shinzo Abe's cabinet resigns ahead of Suga becoming Japan's new PM

    Yoshihide Suga, the new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, is set to take office as Japan's Prime Minister today

    16 Sept 2020 11:32 AM IST

    Chinas approach runs counter to that of many Western countries, where experts have warned against authorizing the emergency use of vaccines that have not completed testing. (AP)World
    In coronavirus vaccine race, China inoculates thousands before trials...

    Vaccine safety came into sharp focus last week when AstraZeneca Plc paused late-stage clinical trials of its COVID-19...

    16 Sept 2020 10:05 AM IST

    Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account, shows himself, centre, and his wife Yulia, right, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar, top left, posing for a photo in a hospital in Berlin, Germany. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has posted the picture of himself in a hospital in Germany and says hes breathing on his own. He posted on Instagram Tuesday Sept. 15, 2020: \Hi, this is Navalny. I have been missing you. I still cant do much, but yesterday I managed to breathe on my own for the entire day.\ (Navalny instagram via AP)World
    'Poisoned' Putin critic Navalny shares hospital photo of himself

    Navalny's spokeswoman said that once he has recovered, the Putin critic plans to return to Russia

    16 Sept 2020 9:38 AM IST

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