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An Indian-origin Sikh couple living in the UK has won a landmark court battle after they were racially discriminated against by a local council that did not allow them to go for adoption, reported IANS. (Photo: AP)

Sikh couple, who faced racial discrimination, win UK adoption battle

The couple tried to get this 2016 decision reversed and even won the support of their local MP, the then home secretary Theresa May.

08 Dec 2019 1:40 PM

Putin last month praised Zelensky as "likeable" and "sincere". (Photo: File)

'Don't trust Putin': Ex-Ukraine Prez warns ahead of Russia talks

Zelensky, a political novice who was inaugurated in May, will meet Putin for the first time on Monday.

07 Dec 2019 3:35 PM

A man in the UK has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a charity worker, who worked with Mother Teresa as a special assistant in Calcutta in the early 1990s and also helped set up schools for girls in India. (Representational Image)

Man jailed for murder of Mother Teresa’s ex-assistant in UK

Bloomfield was knocked to ground after hitting his head on the concrete, never to regain consciousness, and died in hospital two days later.

07 Dec 2019 12:53 PM

"Allegations are easy," Thaung Tun, a senior member of Suu Kyi's cabinet, said in a tweet on Dec.1. (Photo: File)

Leader Aung Suu Kyi faces Rohingya genocide hearings at The Hague

Office of Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prize laureate, has said she will lead her country's defence personally.

06 Dec 2019 3:29 PM

"He's two-faced," Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the NATO summit, saying he had called out Trudeau on defence spending "and he's not very happy about it". (Photo: File)

Trump slams Trudeau for 'mocking him' at NATO summit, calls him 'two-faced'

Trump was speaking before holding talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after the 29 leaders of NATO countries met in Watford.

05 Dec 2019 9:16 AM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson can be heard asking France's President Emmanuel Macron: "Is that why you were late?" (Photo: Screengrab)

Caught on camera: World leaders appear to mock US President Donald Trump

Footage shot by British host's camera pool on Tuesday and spotted and subtitled by Canada's CBC, set tone for allies' summit in Watford

04 Dec 2019 2:39 PM

In sharp exchanges underlining discord in a transatlantic bloc hailed by backers as the most successful military pact in history, Trump demanded that Europe pay more for its collective defence and make concessions to US interests on trade. (Photo: File)

'Very, very nasty': Trump clashes with Macron over his remark on NATO

Macron stood by his criticism of NATO and said its real problem was a failure to forge a clear purpose since the end of the Cold War.

04 Dec 2019 12:39 PM

“I don’t want the crown back,” she wrote on her Instagram page on Sunday. (Photo: Instagram)

Ex-beauty queen barred from Miss World for being mother, files lawsuit

There has not yet been any comment from Miss World on the issue.

03 Dec 2019 1:45 PM

Muscat declined to make a link with Caruana Galizia's 2017 murder, saying in a televised address that he was resigning "as this is what needs to be done." (Photo: AFP)

Malta PM to resign amid journalist murder probe protests

Muscat said he would resign after his successor is chosen by January 12.

02 Dec 2019 1:15 PM

The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for the knife-attack in central London where a convicted terrorist killed two people before being shot dead by police. (Photo: File)

ISIS claims responsibility for deadly London knife attack

The profile of Khan dating back to his conviction in 2012 reveals his links with terror groups.

01 Dec 2019 12:53 PM

Nine years before Usman Khan killed two people in a stabbing spree on London Bridge, he was overheard by British security services discussing how to use an al Qaeda manual he had memorised to build a pipe bomb. (Photo: File)

London Bridge terrorist planned to carry out attacks in Kashmir: UK Judge

It has yet to be confirmed why Khan, now 28, began his rampage on London Bridge.

01 Dec 2019 10:37 AM

A convicted Islamist terrorist, who spent part of his teens in Pakistan and released last year from a UK prison, is suspected to be the man who stabbed two people to death in a terror attack on London Bridge, police said on Saturday. (Photo: File)

London attacker Usman Khan, terror convict spent late teens in Pakistan

The Scotland Yard confirmed that a male suspect, later identified as Khan, wearing a hoax bomb vest was shot dead at the scene.

30 Nov 2019 12:37 PM

Ordinary Londoners who showed "breath-taking heroism" in disarming a knife-wielding attacker were praised by politicians and members of the public alike after they intervened to stop an attack which injured several people at London Bridge on Friday. (Photo: File)

'Breath-taking heroism': Praise for Londoners who tackled knife attacker

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said those who confronted the attacker would not have known that a bomb device strapped to his body was a hoax.

30 Nov 2019 9:45 AM

British police named the man who stabbed two people to death in London on Friday in what the authorities called a terrorist attack as 28-year-old Usman Khan, who had been convicted of terrorism offences and was released from prison last year. (Photo: File)

London knife attacker named, was convicted of terror offences in 2012

In addition to the man and the woman who were killed, a man and two women were injured and remain in hospital, Basu said.

30 Nov 2019 9:21 AM

The violence erupted two-and-a-half years after a van and knife attack in the same area killed eight people and less than two weeks before Britain holds a national election. (Photo: AFP)

2 killed in London stabbings; police fatally shoot suspect

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that ``to the best of our knowledge, the incident has been contained'' but that details were still emerging.

30 Nov 2019 4:28 AM

London Bridge was one of the areas targeted by an ISIS-claimed terrorist attack in June 2017, when 11 people died as terrorists went on a stabbing spree after ramming a van into pedestrians. (Photo: File | AFP)

Several injured, one detained in stabbing incident near London Bridge

'If you are near the scene, please follow the directions of any officer on the ground,' the police said.

29 Nov 2019 8:39 PM

Britain's governing Conservative Party complained to the broadcasting regulator after its chosen representative was shut out of a general election television debate on climate change on Thursday. (Photo: Channel 4)

Boris Johnson skips climate change debate on TV, gets replaced by melting ice sculpture

Johnson has said he only wants to debate with Corbyn, seeing him as theoretically the only alternative prime minister.

29 Nov 2019 3:03 PM

But Macron has made no secret of his wish to engage with Russian President Vladimir Putin on a range of disputes, saying he would raise the issue at a NATO meeting in London next week. (Photo: File)

EU must be part of any future US-Russia nuclear missile treaty, says Macron

'We cannot just content ourselves with bilateral treaties,' Macron said after talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Paris.

29 Nov 2019 9:53 AM

They found 152 bundles containing three tonnes of cocaine, Spanish police said in a statement. (Representational Image)

Submarine seized in Spain was carrying three tonnes of cocaine

Police intercepted the 20-metre (65-foot) submarine -- thought to be the first of its kind captured in Europe on Saturday.

28 Nov 2019 2:46 PM

Johnson, who took over a minority administration in July and been unable to speed his EU divorce deal through parliament, has pledged to take Britain out of the bloc by January 31. (Photo: File)

Cruising majority for Boris Johnson's Conservative party: UK election survey

Britain votes on Dec 12, with Johnson hoping to secure a majority to be able to push through his Brexit deal to take the country out of EU.

28 Nov 2019 12:33 PM