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Scott Morrison will be Australias new Prime Minister. (Photo: AP)

Scott Morrison next PM of Australia, ousts Malcolm Turnbull: reports

Scott Morrison, an ally of deposed leader Malcolm Turnbull, won a party-room ballot 45-40.

24 Aug 2018 11:45 AM IST

Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam returned to Lahore from London following their conviction in a corruption case. (Photo: File/Twitter)

PML-N leaders not allowed to meet Sharif and daughter

The case stemmed from the Panama Papers leak that disclosed expensive and undeclared property owned by the Sharif family...

24 Aug 2018 12:58 AM IST

The argument turned into a scuffle. Momin took out a knife and attacked Labbai. (Representational Image)

ISIS claims knife attack near Paris that kills 2

The man was later shot and killed by police, a local government official said.

23 Aug 2018 3:14 PM IST

It added that signing a declaration to end the 1950-53 Korean War would be the first step towards achieving regional and global peace and security. (Photo: ANI)

North Korea urges US to sign end-of-war declaration

North Korea's media also urged US to lift the sanctions on Pyongyang, adding that improvement of ties and sanctions...

23 Aug 2018 3:09 PM IST

Imran Khan, 65, who won a simple majority from lawmakers on Friday in a confidence vote will be administered oath by President Mamnoon Hussain. (Photo: AP)

India on top of Imran Khan's foreign policy pile despite tensions with...

Khan has repeatedly blamed Pakistan's participation in the US-led anti-terror campaign for surge in terrorism on home...

23 Aug 2018 3:03 PM IST

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: AP)

Islamic State leader Baghdadi resurfaces, urges supporters to attack...

Baghdadi's speech was mainly focused on decline of American influence around the world and claimed credit on behalf of...

23 Aug 2018 2:00 PM IST

Madan, in his early 20s, allegedly attacked his mother in the head and later throttled her to death around midnight, the ACP said. (Representational Image)

Shanghai man who killed his wife, hid her body in freezer gets death...

In the three months after killing his wife, Zhu Xiaodong used her money to fund travel as well as hotel trysts with...

23 Aug 2018 1:32 PM IST

President Donald Trump speaks before signing a USD 716 billion defense policy bill named for Senator John McCain Monday, in Fort Drum, New York on Monday. (Photo: AP)

Palestinian leaders reject Trump pledge to give them something 'very...

Trump's push for a Israeli-Palestinian peace deal was impossible without 'recognising east Jerusalem as capital of the...

23 Aug 2018 12:57 PM IST

The 30-year-old went missing in May, according to media reports, and a crime of passion was suspected as she had been pregnant and married to another man at the time. (Photo: File/Representational)

Anaesthetist in Hong Kong killed his wife, daughter with gas-filled...

Prosecutors told the High Court that Khaw Kim-sun left the inflatable ball in the boot of a car where the gas leaked out...

23 Aug 2018 12:46 PM IST

The latest action completes the first round of USD 50 billion in products that President Donald Trump targeted after USD 34 billion in goods were hit with punitive duties on July 6. (Photo: File)

Trade war: USD 16 billion in Chinese goods now under US import tariff

Trump has pushed aggressive trade actions to lower the US trade deficit, which he equates with theft from Americans.

23 Aug 2018 12:36 PM IST

I will certainly meet with Iran(ian leadership), if they want to, the US President said. (Photo: AP)

After Trump aide's warning, Iran threatens to hit US, Israel targets

US-Iranian war of words has escalated since Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the world powers' nuclear deal with...

23 Aug 2018 11:36 AM IST

Sirisena said he would hold talks with talks with Pakistans new Prime Minister Imran Khan on repatriating the condemned Pakistanis and having them executed there. (Photo: AP)

Sri Lanka to end execution moratorium soon: President

The five are among 18 people, including a woman, on death row for drug offences whose execution will go ahead, according...

23 Aug 2018 11:26 AM IST