Category: World News

India’s Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid has sought to downplay the row with Washington over an Indian diplomat who was arrested in the US.

KABUL – Afghanistan has enough evidence to try only 16 of 88 prisoners that the United States considers a threat to security and plans to free the remaining detainees, the president’s spokesman said on Thursday. The move will further strain…

India has asked the US to withdraw an official from its embassy in Delhi in a row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York.  Devyani Khobragade is flying home after she was ordered to leave the US…

Central Africa Republic’s interim President Michel Djotodia has resigned at a regional summit aimed at ending violence that has engulfed the country. CAR’s entire transitional assembly is attending the meeting in Chad, organised by regional leaders. PM Nicolas Tiengaye has…

Bangkok – Thailand’s government should urgently send ethnic Rohingya children from Burma and their families to safe and open family shelters. New research documents abuses by Thai authorities, who should take action against camps in southern Thailand used for trafficking…

Australians have been urged to reconsider travel to Bangladesh in the wake of weekend elections in the South Asian country marred by violence. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade today raised its travel warning to “reconsider your need to…

At least five people have been killed and 12 injured in an explosion at a chemical factory in central Japan.

Tributes have been pouring for a Pakistani teenager who was killed on Monday when he tackled a suicide bomber targeting his school in the Hangu area.

India has ordered more reprisals against the US as a diplomatic row continues over last month’s arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade.

Weather records have tumbled across North America, with freezing temperatures even in the southern US.

Two ships have broken free from Antarctic ice after being stuck for days – the Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy and Chinese icebreaker Xue Long.

North America’s brutal cold snap is heading east, ushering in dangerous temperatures not seen in two decades, warn forecasters.

A Spanish judge has summoned the youngest daughter of King Juan Carlos to appear in court over accusations of fraud and money-laundering.

An eight-year-old Afghan girl wearing a suicide vest has been detained by police in southern Afghanistan.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has fractured a bone in her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident in Switzerland, her spokesman says.

Parts of the US are braced for potentially record-breaking low temperatures as a “polar vortex” brings more freezing weather.

A US ice-breaker is to help two ships that are stuck in thick ice in Antarctica following a rescue mission.

The parents of a 16-year-old girl who died after being gang-raped and set on fire in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta have vowed to fight for justice.

Kathmandu – The two archaeologists had a hunch that the Buddha’s birthplace in southern Nepal held secrets that could transform how the world understood the emergence and spread of Buddhism.

Guinness World Records authorities have officially certified Bangladesh’s human flag record of 27,117 people created on December 16 last as the world’s largest human national flag.   The record has also been officially posted on the Guinness World Records website Private…

Beijing — One day after a Chinese icebreaker played a central role in the rescue of 52 passengers from an icebound research vessel in Antarctica, crew members on the Chinese ship said it might itself become trapped by ice, according…

In his strongest ever attack on Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday said that someone who “presided over massacre of citizens on the streets of Ahmedabad” shouldn’t be the PM.

An operation is under way in Antarctica to rescue passengers from the ice-bound research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy.

Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been taken to hospital with a suspected heart problem on his way to court for his treason trial.

A bus has plunged down a deep gorge in the western Indian state of Maharashtra killing at least 27 people, police say.

The US state of Colorado is making history by becoming the first to allow stores to sell cannabis.

A Palestinian diplomat has been killed by an explosion at his home in the Czech capital Prague, apparently while opening a case, police say.

Former motor racing champion Michael Schumacher’s condition has improved slightly after an operation to relieve pressure on his brain, his doctors have said.

A rescue mission for a ship stuck in ice in Antarctica is under threat as reports have emerged that one of the assisting vessels may itself be stuck.

At least 14 people have been killed in a suicide bombing on a trolleybus in the Russian city of Volgograd, investigators say.