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A person is arrested by Seattle Police at Cal Anderson Park, Saturday, July 25, 2020, during a Black Lives Matter protest near the Seattle Police East Precinct headquarters. A large group of protesters marched Saturday in Seattle in support of Black Lives Matter and against police brutality and racial injustice. (AP)

Protesters clash with Seattle police over feds deployment

The latest episode of violence came after police and federal agents fired tear gas and forcefully dispersed protesters...

26 July 2020 1:19 PM IST

Black Lives Matter organizer Teal Lindseth, 21, leads protesters. (AP)

Portland's unbending protests reflect a leftist history but it too had...

Historians point out that Oregon had, at one point, the highest per capita membership numbers for the famous Ku Klux...

26 July 2020 12:33 PM IST

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gestures before going out for a ride on his motorcycle after he announced he tested negative for COVID-19 more than two weeks after being diagnosed, in Brasilia. (AFP)

Bolsonaro announces testing negative for COVID-19

The right-wing president reported testing positive for coronavirus three times this month, including an initial...

26 July 2020 10:12 AM IST

Man battles with his umbrellas as Hurricane Hanna begins to make landfall, Saturday, July 25, 2020, in Corpus Christi, Texas. The National Hurricane Center said Saturday morning that Hannas maximum sustained winds had increased and that it was expected to make landfall Saturday afternoon or early evening. (AP)

Hurricane Hanna lashes south Texas coast already hit by virus

Hanna, the first Atlantic hurricane of 2020, is bringing in heavy rain, storm surge and potentially life-threatening...

26 July 2020 8:48 AM IST

Federal officers use chemical irritants and projectiles to disperse Black Lives Matter protesters near the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Friday, July 24, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Since federal officers arrived in downtown Portland in early July, violent protests have largely been limited to a two block radius from the courthouse. (AP)

Portland protests gather in thousands, standoff with feds continue

The Federal agents, deployed by President Trump to tamp down the unrest, have arrested dozens during nightly...

25 July 2020 1:34 PM IST

Besides the king cobras, the forest and PFA personnel had rescued at least two rock pythons from the area in the last six months (Photo: AFP)

Brazil's celebrity cobra sparks probe into animal trafficking

So far the probe has led to the firing of two officials at the Brazilian environmental regulator for facilitating...

25 July 2020 12:30 PM IST

The 2008 Mumbai attack was one of Indias most horrific terrorist attacks in which 166 people were killed and over 300 injured as 10 heavily-armed terrorists from Pakistan created mayhem. (PTI)

US court rejects bail plea of Mumbai terror attacks co-conspirator

Tahawwur Rana, a childhood friend of David Coleman Headley, was re-arrested on June 10 in Los Angeles on an extradition...

25 July 2020 11:37 AM IST

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gestures as he speaks to supporters in the garden of the Alvorada Palace. (AFP)

Bolsonaro supporters blocked out of Twitter, Facebook after court rule

Brazil's Supreme Court ordered them blocked as part of a probe into an alleged disinformation campaign by the...

25 July 2020 11:21 AM IST

Chief of Space Operations at U.S. Space Force Gen. John Raymond. The United States accused Russia on Thursday, July 23, of conducting a test of an anti-satellite weapon in space, asserting that it exposed Moscows intent to deploy weapons that threaten U.S. and allied satellites. (AP)

For US, Russia's mystery projectile raises concerns of a space war

A cat and mouse play is happening in orbit, easily observable from Earth by the US military, which has publicly...

25 July 2020 9:45 AM IST

The original policy change of revoking the visas of foreign students whose classes will move online in the autumn was taken to court by top universities including Harvard and MIT, teachers unions and at least 18 states.(AFP)

US now says no new foreign students for all-online classes

There were more than 1 million international students in US for 2018-19 academic year, according to the Institute of...

25 July 2020 8:56 AM IST

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks on the House floor, Thursday, July 23, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ocasio-Cortezs objections to a Republican lawmakers verbal assault on her expanded Thursday as she and other Democrats took to the House floor to demand an end to a sexist culture of accepting violence and violent language against women. (AP)

AOC, Democrat women call out culture of sexist slur within Congress

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's outrage over Republican Ted Yoho's sexist slurs broadened into an extraordinary moment on the...

24 July 2020 1:26 PM IST

Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro, who is infected with COVID-19, wears a protective face mask as he makes a heart-hand sign to supporters during a Brazilian flag retreat ceremony outside his official residence the Alvorada Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil. (AP)

Brazil's Bolsonaro goes for bike rides, chats up with staff despite...

The far-right leader, who has been called a 'Tropical Trump,' has repeatedly defied social distancing guidelines

24 July 2020 12:44 PM IST