International

The U.S. State Department has moved to back America’s ambassador to Israel in a febrile and escalating row over his remarks on Monday that Israel applied law in the occupied…

China’s population climbed to 1.37 billion last year, 6.8 million higher than in 2014 but childbirths dropped by 3,20,000 in the same period despite relaxation of the controversial one-child policy…

The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State’s relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites. For 1,400 years,…

He searched for oil in the badlands of Somalia and fuelled a stock market boom in Mongolia. He sued the world’s smallest republic, far out in the Pacific, for a…

Republican front runner for presidential nomination Donald Trump considers the Bible as the only book in the history of mankind that is better than the Art of the Deal, a…

British lawmakers are set to debate a call for U.S. Presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be banned from the United Kingdom over his remarks about Muslims. More than 5,00,000 people…

The day that crushing international sanctions against Iran were lifted, state television opened its morning hourly news program with an item on children’s vaccinations. There were no flag-waving youths or…

The Indonesian police have arrested 12 people allegedly linked with Thursday’s suicide bombing in the capital which killed seven people and injured 20. They also identified five bombers on Saturday,…

Republican aspirants for presidential nomination competed with each other in the debate on Thursday night to prove one point that they all agreed on — that the U.S. was facing…

A statuette of Lord Hanuman is among few items that U.S. President Barack Obama always carries in his pocket and seeks inspiration from whenever he feels tired or discouraged. The…

A Sierra Leone official said a corpse tested positive for Ebola, the day after the World Health Organisation declared the outbreak over in West Africa. “The case has been confirmed.…

Islamic State (IS) said it was behind an attack by suicide bombers and gunmen in the heart of Jakarta on Thursday that brought the radical group’s violence to the world’s…