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The tests are being carried out in Latvias exclusive economic zone. (Photo: File/AP)

Russia's missile tests force Baltic Sea and airspace to partly shut...

The Russian defence ministry said that its Baltic Fleet was preparing for routine training in the Baltic Sea, including...

5 April 2018 12:58 PM IST

In this file photo, workers continue work raising a taller fence in the Mexico-US border area separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico and Sunland Park. (Photo: AP)

Donald Trump to soon deploy National Guard troops at US-Mexico border

The aim of the Trump administration is to block the movement of illegal immigrants into the country via the Mexican...

5 April 2018 12:30 PM IST

Battaglia had been divorced from his wife, Mary Jean Pearl, for about a year when he fatally shot their two daughters, Mary Faith, then 9 years old, and Liberty, 6, prosecutors said. (Photo: File/Representational)

New York Police shoots unarmed man dead on mistaking pipe for gun

According to media reports, the victim of the shooting was known in the neighborhood and was mentally ill but not...

5 April 2018 10:15 AM IST

Consequently, there is no basis under WTO rules for Chinas decision this week to raise tariffs against over USD 3 billion in US exports, USTR said. (Photo: AFP)

US rejects China WTO protest of steel tariffs as 'baseless'

President Donald Trump imposed tariffs of 25 per cent on steel and 15 per cent on aluminium, citing national security...

5 April 2018 8:28 AM IST

The government has issued notice to Facebook on Wednesday seeking information over the alleged data leak. (Photo: AFP/File)

Info of up to 87 mn Facebook users shared with UK firm, shared...

Over half a million of the users whose personal data might have been compromised are from India.

5 April 2018 8:09 AM IST

Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan. (Photo: AP)

Sharifs, Imran Khan face threat from Taliban: Report

It said a separate intelligence report was also received stating that the PTI chief Imran Khan faced a serious threat to...

5 April 2018 6:44 AM IST

Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi addresses the United Nations General Assembly. (Photo: AP)

Will raise Kashmir issue, says Pakistan PM

Abbasi said that he himself has highlighted the Kashmir issue in all his meetings at the UN and the Organisation of...

5 April 2018 2:46 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: AP)

Russia points fingers at Britain and US over 'grotesque' spy poisoning

British and Russian officials faced off at a closed-door meeting for the first time since the poisoning of the Skripals...

4 April 2018 6:55 PM IST

Lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who took on sensitive cases of complaints of police torture and defended practitioners of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, went missing in August 2015 during a sweeping crackdown on rights activists. (Photo: Facebook)

Wife of detained Chinese lawyer begins 100 km march to press for...

Wife of a detained Chinese lawyer begins march from Beijing to Tianjin city in a bid to force authorities to explain her...

4 April 2018 6:20 PM IST

Dawood Ibrahim, Hafiz Saeed's LeT on UN's new terror list

The updated list released by the UN Security Council has entries of almost 139 terrorists connected to Pakistan

4 April 2018 5:29 PM IST

Vladimir Putin, Russia President

Nerve agent attack: Putin hopes chemical watchdog can end Skripal row

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury...

4 April 2018 4:37 PM IST

39-year-old Nasim Najafi Aghdam from San Diego was behind Tuesdays shooting at YouTubes offices in Silicon Valley. (Photo: Nasimesabz.com)

YouTube female attacker was vegan blogger who accused tech giant of...

Nasim Najafi Aghdam ran a website where she posted about veganism, as well as long passages critical of YouTube.

4 April 2018 3:14 PM IST