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German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a press meet in Berlin on Friday. (Photo: AFP)

Merkel backs multilateral approach as Trump presidency looms

Merkel will host the annual summit of the Group of 20 in July and is also expected to see Trump at the G-7 summit in...

14 Jan 2017 5:37 PM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo: AP/File)

China shelved SCS dispute during Vietnam leader's visit

China said both sides should increase communication in order to lay a solid political foundation for disputes...

14 Jan 2017 5:34 PM IST

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas smiles in front of a newly unveiled plaque on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony of the Palestinian embassy to the Holy See at the Vatican. (Photo: AP)

Peace could suffer if US embassy moves: Palestine

President-elect Donald Trump has also vowed to move the US embassy to Jerusalem during election campaign.

14 Jan 2017 5:32 PM IST

Signed, sealed, delivered. I carried @POTUSs signature to the surface of #Mars. http://go.nasa.gov/2jIeWVU #NASAPast8Years, Curiosity Rover tweeted. (Photo: Twitter)

Barack Obama thanks NASA for taking his sign to Mars

Curiosity Mars rover's Twitter handle posted a photo of a plaque bearing the signatures of Obama, Joe Biden and other...

14 Jan 2017 5:13 PM IST

Last week, RAB arrested 10 people from different parts of Dhaka for their suspected involvement with the cafe attackers. (Photo: AP)

Bangladesh arrests 'mastermind' behind Dhaka cafe siege

During the initial interrogation, Jahangir Alam, has admitted to his direct link to plot of staging the attack on...

14 Jan 2017 4:49 PM IST

Civilians returning to Mosul. (Photo: AP)

30 Mosul residents killed in air raid targeting IS militants

The witnesses said it was not immediately clear if the attack was carried out by the US-led coalition or Iraqi forces.

14 Jan 2017 3:06 PM IST

The photo shows the exterior of a home in Walterboro, where Gloria Williams lived for years with a girl that authorities say was kidnapped as an infant 18 years ago from a hospital in Florida. (Photo: AP)

US woman charged with stealing teenage daughter at birth

Mobley was only eight hours old when she was taken from her young mother by a woman posing as a nurse at University...

14 Jan 2017 1:45 PM IST

She hired the goons to teach a lesson to her husband and paid them Rs five lakh to thrash him. (Photo: Representational Image)

Pakistan: Wife hires goons to thrash her cheating husband

The suspected that her husband, Raja Qamar Iqbal, was cheating on her as he was coming home late every night despite her...

14 Jan 2017 1:24 PM IST

US president-elect Donald Trump. (Photo: AFP)

May scrap sanctions if Russia cooperates, hints Donald Trump

The President-elect also said he was prepared to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin after taking office on...

14 Jan 2017 12:44 PM IST

United Nations Secretary General Ant³nio Guterres, left, observes as Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai, right, hands over the chairmanship of the United Nations Group of 77 to Ecuadors President Rafael Correa. (Photo: AP)

Ecuador takes chair of UN group of 134 developing countries

President Rafael Correa told Friday's handover ceremony that the group will continue promoting 'social and economic...

14 Jan 2017 11:48 AM IST

US President Barack Obama speaks during his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago. (Photo: AP)

Obama to hold last press conference on Wednesday

Obama had made his valedictory speech in his hometown of Chicago earlier this week.

14 Jan 2017 10:51 AM IST

The department caught liquor worth Rs 4.69 crore while last year the department had seized liquor worth Rs 3.62 crore.

Death penalty for politicians consuming alcohol, Pak senator suggests

Senator Shahi Syed made the remarks at the Senate Standing Committee on Interior that to hold discussions on local and...

14 Jan 2017 10:00 AM IST