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US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

'Don't do it!': Trump calls for end to killing in Syria rebel bastion

Trump on Thursday praised Turkey's efforts, tweeting that Ankara 'is working hard to stop this carnage.'

26 Dec 2019 8:29 PM IST

A Mumbais family grew 65 feet tall Christmas tree in their backyard in Worli, said to be Indias tallest. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Honest German returns backpack with over Rs 12 lakh forgotten under...

Officers were able to quickly identify the owner and reunite him with the backpack and its precious contents.

26 Dec 2019 7:00 PM IST

Firefighters tackle the blaze as flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris. (Photo: AP)

'Today it is not out of danger': Fragile Notre Dame Cathedral might...

Some 50,000 tubes of scaffolding crisscrossed the back of the edifice at the time of the fire, and some were damaged.

26 Dec 2019 9:42 AM IST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of planning attacks against the Jewish state and said everything possible would be done to prevent them. (Photo: File)

Gaza rocket sends Benjamin Netanyahu to shelter during campaign rally:...

It was the second time in recent months that rocket fire cut short one of his meetings.

26 Dec 2019 8:32 AM IST

The prosecutors told the court on Tuesday that Donald Thurman had confessed to the crime and it ordered he be held without bail. (Reprewsentational Image)

US man robs bank, throws stolen cash at people and wishes Merry...

A man, identified by police as 65-year-old David Wayne Oliver, was arrested in a nearby Starbucks.

25 Dec 2019 5:36 PM IST

Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed on December 1 to a three-month truce in the escalating spat. (Photo: File)

Trump says he and Xi Jinping will sign US-China trade deal

Beijing has not yet confirmed specific components of the deal that were released by US officials.

25 Dec 2019 2:14 PM IST

Pope Francis poses for a photo with a group of priests at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican recently. (Photo: AP)

God continues to loves us all, even worst of us': Pope Francis on...

Francis will at noon on Wednesday give the traditional Christmas Day mass -- his 7th -- addressed to world in front of...

25 Dec 2019 1:55 PM IST

The following day, this morning, I managed to get back a lot of things and now I am fine, Bolsonaro said in a telephone interview with Band television. (Photo: AFP)

Brazil President lost memory after fall that left him hospitalised

The 64-year-old slipped Monday night in a bathroom at the Alvorada Palace.

25 Dec 2019 9:50 AM IST

Dass foundation, Love Serve Remember, announced late Sunday that the author and spiritual leader died peacefully at his home earlier in the day. No cause of death was given. (Photo: Social Media)

Author, spiritual guru and LSD pioneer Ram Dass passes away

Ram Dass entered the public sphere in the early 1960s as a young Harvard psychology professor.

24 Dec 2019 12:49 PM IST

US President Donald Trump, engaged in personal attacks on House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Photo:AP)

US Speaker Nancy Pelosi not ready to name team for Trump's Senate...

House managers will prosecute the case against Trump before the Republican majority Senate in a trial expected to begin...

24 Dec 2019 11:27 AM IST

The transcript of a July 25 call Trump made with the Ukrainian president in which he asked him to investigate the son of his political rival Joe Biden has become the subject of a Democratic-led impeachment inquiry into the president. (Photo: File)

US to provide USD 300 million military aid to Ukraine in 2020

The almost USD11bn (Â£8.4bn) Nord Stream 2 project has infuriated the US, with both Republican and Democratic lawmakers...

24 Dec 2019 11:20 AM IST

Jaishankars meeting with the Committee, headed by Engel, the Democratic lawmaker from New York, on December 18 was cancelled. (Photo: File)

Here is why Jaishankar cancelled meeting with US lawmaker

Jaishankar refused to meet Indian-American Jayapal, who introduced a Congressional resolution to lift restrictions...

24 Dec 2019 8:42 AM IST