The British government will send a consignment of heavy machine guns and ammunition worth 1.6 million pounds (2.6 million dollars) to Iraqi government to help fight the Islamic State (IS), the British defence ministry said Tuesday. The equipments, scheduled ...

Nearly half a million people in Pakistan have been hit by the deadliest flood in the country's history that has claimed 243 lives, as authorities braced to save major towns along the swollen Chenab river, which has left a trail of devastation. Flood waters ...

A 60-feet asteroid about the size of a normal house flew past Earth Sunday posing no threat to humans, NASA reported. The asteroid 2014 RC passed over New Zealand at a close distance of 40,000 km from earth. An asteroid of same size left over 1,000 ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his visiting Australian counterpart Tony Abbot Saturday said that the two countries would continue their cooperation in dealing with the tragedies of Malaysia Airlines flights MH370 and MH17. Najib expressed his ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says the government aims to send a search team to the crash site in Ukraine of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 before winter sets in to gather physical evidence to prove it was shot down. Najib said the government has "pretty ...

The Centre sounded a countrywide alert today afternoon after a video released by terror outfit al-Qaeda announced its intent to make the subcontinent, particularly India, the focus of its terror activities. Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, in the 55-minute long ...

South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics unveiled Wednesday a range of devices including a smartphone with a curved screen that gives it the ability to offer two sources of display. The Galaxy Note Edge has a curved 5.6 inch display that extends ...

The real face of Islam is peaceful, based on dignity of all human beings and not butchers who killed American journalist Steven Sotloff a day earlier, US Secretary of State John Kerry said today. "The face of Islam is not the butchers who killed Steven Sotloff.

Pitching for enhanced business and manufacturing ties between India and Japan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that for easing the way business is conducted in India, many regulations had been deregulated, and now foreign investors could hope ...

Three Palestinians were killed and scores injured Monday in a wave of Israeli attacks in different areas of the Gaza Strip. Three Palestinians, including a woman, were killed and several others injured in a series of Israeli raids on Gaza, MENA news agency ...

A British national, who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, has been flown back to Britain on a Royal Air Force (RAF) jet, authorities said Sunday. The unidentified patient, who is a healthcare worker, will be flown to a British airbase and will then be ...

Gaza, Aug 22 (IANS/EFE) Palestinian militias Friday executed 18 people accused of collaborating with Israel, 48 hours after three top military leaders of the Islamic Palestinian movement Hamas were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home. At least 11 of the ...

Afghanistan expelled a New York Times reporter today, accusing him of links to spy agencies in a furious response to a story he wrote saying government ministers and officials were threatening to seize power. The attorney general said Matthew Rosenberg's ...

Afghanistan expelled a New York Times reporter today, accusing him of links to spy agencies in a furious response to a story he wrote saying government ministers and officials were threatening to seize power. The attorney general said Matthew Rosenberg's ...

Afghanistan expelled a New York Times reporter today, accusing him of links to spy agencies in a furious response to a story he wrote saying government ministers and officials were threatening to seize power. The attorney general said Matthew Rosenberg's ...

Geneva, Aug 21 (IANS/EFE) The death toll due to the Ebola virus continues to rise in West Africa and currently stands at 1,350, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. Of that number, 576 have died in Liberia where the outbreak is most severe and efforts ...

US Special Operation Forces launched a secret raid in Syria at the direction of President Barack Obama to rescue journalist James Foley and other Americans held hostage by Islamic State militants, but the "complicated" mission failed and the rescue team ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Growth in China's vast factory sector slowed to a three-month low in August as output and new orders moderated, a preliminary private survey showed on Thursday, heightening concerns about increasing softness in the economy.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to continue military operations against Gaza militants while fighting persists between the two sides. Israeli military launched 92 airstrikes against Gaza on Wednesday. Gaza had fired 137 rockets into the ...

The US has said that it does not support any extra-constitutional changes in Pakistan, where deadlock continues between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and two key opposition figures seeking his resignation over allegations of corruption and election rigging.