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US President Donald Trump issued a revised travel ban order on Monday. (Photo: AP)

White House says don't have any evidence that Obama tapped Trump's...

The House intelligence committee has asked the administration to provide evidence of the allegation by Monday.

13 March 2017 8:48 PM IST

The Pokemon Go phenomenon had taken the world by storm. Since its launch in July this year, some bizarre real-life incidents were encountered by many users who had played the game. Here are some weirdest incidents that happened during the year.

Blogger goes on trial for playing 'Pokemon Go' in a church

Ruslan Sokolovsky has been in pretrial detention since October when a court reversed his house arrest.

13 March 2017 5:00 PM IST

The ver.di union called on staff at the Tegel and Schoenefeld airports to walk out from 8:30 pm IST Monday until 9:30 pm IST Tuesday. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Hundreds of Berlin flights cancelled in ground crew strike

Airport authorities said 448 departures from Tegel, the busier airport, and 194 from Schoenefeld were cancelled.

13 March 2017 3:48 PM IST

Hugh Lanning, head of the London-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign, was denied entry on Sunday night at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. (Videograb)

Israel refuses entry to pro-Palestine British activist

Authorities also accused Lanning of maintaining ties to leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that runs the...

13 March 2017 3:37 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: AP)

Officials warn of global religious extremism threat to China

The government says Xinjiang faces a grave separatist threat from Uighur fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic...

13 March 2017 3:17 PM IST

President Janos Ader

Lawmakers electing Hungary's president for 5-year term

Ader is a former parliamentary speaker and member of the European Parliament.

13 March 2017 2:59 PM IST

Donald Trump is expected to sign the new order on Wednesday. (Photo: AP)

Republicans brace for downbeat CBO analysis of health bill

Paul Ryan says he fully expects the analysis to find less coverage since the GOP plan eliminates the government...

13 March 2017 1:53 PM IST

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (Photo: AFP)

UN says violence against Syria's children 'at its worst' in 2016

850 children were recruited to fight in the conflict, including as executioners or suicide bombers -- more than double...

13 March 2017 1:43 PM IST

UN Human Rights Commission Chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein. (Photo: AP)

Rohingya group urges EU support for Myanmar probe

The European Rohingya Council expressed shock and concern about the EU's decision not to support the UN investigation.

13 March 2017 12:39 PM IST

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye. (Photo: AFP)

South Korean ex-president's senior advisers offer to resign

Nine senior presidential advisers tendered their resignations to acting leader Hwang Kyo-ahn.

13 March 2017 11:46 AM IST

The kind and the scale of these cyber weapons was such that even the CIA lost control of majority of its hacking arsenal which includes state of the art malware, viruses, Trojans and weaponised zero day exploits which can be worth millions of dollars each in dark web.

German killer posts photos of 9-year-old's brutal murder online

Marcel Hesse had been rejected by the German army for being mentally unstable.

13 March 2017 11:03 AM IST

Islamabad last conducted a census in 1998, which recorded a national population of approximately 180 million at that time. (Photo: AFP/Representational)

Pakistan set to conduct its first census in 19 years

The soldiers will not only provide security but help in verification of data collected by the enumerators.

13 March 2017 10:36 AM IST