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Donald Trump Jr., posted a series of email messages to Twitter on Tuesday showing him eagerly accepting help from what was described to him as a Russian government effort to aid his fathers campaign with damaging information about Hillary Clinton. (Photo: AP)

Donald Trump says his son is 'innocent' over email scandal

The messages show that the younger Trump was open to the prospect of 'very high level and sensitive information' from a...

12 July 2017 6:41 PM IST

Madison Coe died early Sunday at her fathers house in Lovington, New Mexico. (Photo: Facebook)

US teenage girl dies from using cellphone in bathtub

Madison Coe, 14 and from Lubbock, died at her father's home in New Mexico over the weekend while taking a bath.

12 July 2017 6:28 PM IST

Mamadous ordeal came to an end when he was finally rescued when he met a smuggler who put him on a boat from Sabratha into the Mediterranean. (Photo: Representational)

Chinese navy conducts live-fire drills in Mediterranean Sea

The ships will next take part in the 'Joint Sea 2017' exercises in waters off the Russian cities of St. Petersburg and...

12 July 2017 5:45 PM IST

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang (Photo: YouTube)

China willing to play constructive role on Kashmir, Indo-Pak ties

India has maintained that the Kashmir issue is a bilateral matter with Pakistan, and that there is no scope for a third...

12 July 2017 5:37 PM IST

In Nigeria and neighbouring states, the Boko Haram Islamist group recruited an estimated 2,000 child fighters last year alone. (Photo: Representational Image)

Boko Haram suicide bombers kills 19, injured 23 in Maiduguri

Islamic extremist group's insurgency has killed more than 20,000 people, abducted thousands and spilled over into...

12 July 2017 5:22 PM IST

The prediction came in a 97-page annual report to Congress that saw advances throughout the Chinese military in 2016, funded by robust defence spending that the Pentagon estimated exceeded USD 180 billion. (Photo: AP/Representational)

China to downsize army to under a million in biggest troop cut

It added that the number of troops in the PLA Navy, PLA Strategic Support Force and the PLA Rocket Force will be...

12 July 2017 5:21 PM IST

European Unions chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier. (Photo: AP)

EU's Brexit negotiator Barnier sets out tough conditions for UK

Estimates of the amount Britain must pay to cover pension liabilities for EU staff have ranged ever upward to 100...

12 July 2017 4:59 PM IST

US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

White House choose worst time to condemn package on Russia sanctions

Trump didn't help matters when he refused to publicly denounce Putin the same way his staff insisted he did in private...

12 July 2017 4:38 PM IST

Trillion-tonne iceberg in Antarctica snaps, say scientists

Trillion-tonne iceberg in Antarctica snaps, say scientists

The massive ice cube, larger than the US state of Delaware, has a volume twice that of Lake Erie, one of the Great...

12 July 2017 4:37 PM IST

US Vice President, Mike Pence, speaks during a dinner in Seoul, South Korea, over North Koreas threats to advance its defense capabilities. (Photo: AP)

US Vice President Pence distances himself as Russia probe threatens...

Pence said in statement that he knew nothing of meeting -- which took place well before he became Trump's running mate...

12 July 2017 3:50 PM IST

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 broke up high over Eastern Ukraine killing all 298 people on board. Any suspects in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014 will be prosecuted in the Netherlands. (Photo; AP)

Lawyer representing MH17 victims tells Putin to 'make amends' over...

The jet was downed in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board.

12 July 2017 3:50 PM IST

Physical education is not offered in most public schools, although some private schools include it in the curriculum. (Photo: AFP/Representational)

Saudi public schools to start physical education for girls after a...

The Shura Council approved the introduction of physical education for girls in 2014, but clerics decried it as...

12 July 2017 3:43 PM IST