Breaking from the past, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday delivered his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort minus the usual bullet-proof glass enclosure. As the prime minister spoke for over an hour, the entire area around the Red ...

A Russian aid convoy destined for Ukraine prepared to cross the border on Friday. The convoy of trucks underwent checks by Ukraine border and custom officials before it would be allowed to enter the country. (Aug. 15). Loading… Post to Facebook.

DAEJEON, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 15: Faithful waits for the start of the Mass of Assumption of Mary to be conducted by Pope Francis at World Cup soccer stadium on August 15, 2014 in Daejeon, South Korea. Pope Francis is visiting South Korea from ...

Police in Ferguson, Mo. plan to release the name today of the officer who shot and killed an unarmed man – a Saturday shooting that sparked days of clashes in the streets of the St. Louis suburb. Chief Thomas Jackson told ABC News that authorities will meet ...

Iraqi Kurdish forces take position as they fight jihadist militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on June 29, 2014 in the Iraqi village of Bashir (Basheer), 20 kilometers south of the city of Kirkuk. (AFP Photo / Karim Sahib). Trends. ISIS in Iraq.

CAPE TOWN: A British millionaire businessman suspected of the 2010 honeymoon murder of his wife in South Africa is fit to stand trial, a Cape Town court ruled on Friday. Shrien Dewani, who was extradited from Britain in April, will have his trial begin on ...

Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Friday said unknown men in plain clothes had fired at Imran Khan's container in Gujranwala. Speaking to DawnNews on telephone, Rasheed said the container was being fired at for the past 30 minutes. Rasheed said he was in ...

CHECKUP: Kenyan health officials screen passengers on arrival at JKIA yesterday. Photo/SIMON MAINA/AFP. A defiant Kenya Airways yesterday said it will continue to fly to Ebola-stricken West Africa, despite demands from many Kenyans, including MPs, ...

Shame on me, since it took the cops roughing up a few reporters to draw my full attention to the unfolding drama on the streets of Ferguson, Mo. After the shooting Saturday of a teenager there named Michael Brown, I paid only cursory attention to the ...

Hollywood actor Robin Williams, found dead this week after an apparent suicide, was suffering from depression and the early stages of Parkinson's disease, his wife said Thursday. The beloved comedian's personal assistant found Williams hanging from his ...

In Pakistan, tens of thousands of anti-government protesters are expected to arrive in the capital Islamabad on Friday for a showdown with the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. They want him to stand down just a year after he came to power. Mr Sharif says he has ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 15: Men dressed in World War II Japanese military uniform visit the Yasukuni Shrine on August 15, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. Japan marks the 69th anniversary of the end of World War II in Asia today, following their surrender between ...

(CNN) -- The magnitude of the Ebola crisis in West Africa is "vastly" underestimated, the World Health Organization said this week, as the death toll rose to more than 1,000. Ebola has infected at least 1,975 people in Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone ...

The scale of ebola outbreak in West Africa could be “vastly” underestimated and take months to contain, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday. The number of deaths directy linked to the virus has already topped 1,060 and the number falling ill ...

Pope Francis warned of the "cancer" of despair that afflicts outwardly affluent societies and called on South Korean Catholics to reject "inhuman economic models" at a mass for 45,000 people Friday (Aug 15) on the first papal trip to Asia in 15 years. PHOTOS.

Washington: The state trooper appointed on Thursday to bring peace back to a Missouri town rocked by a racially charged killing said he has a personal interest in rehabilitating relations between police and "my community and my home”. Hours after he got ...

Despite his assurances that the humanitarian mission atop Mount Sinjar was a success, nothing could be further from the truth. Obama has a big problem with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — a name he chooses not to use because it reminds people of his ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday sent a ritual offering to a Tokyo shrine to war dead, triggering angry criticism from China and South Korea despite his decision not to visit the shrine in person as he seeks a Sino-Japanese ...

WASHINGTON — With no set time frame for military engagement and few certainties in Baghdad's political crisis, US President Barack Obama's week-old Iraq intervention threatens to monopolise the rest of his presidency. Two-and-a-half years after he ...

Actor David Boreanaz took to social media and dared Jim Gardner to take part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Embed. . Thursday ...