World

Tokyo: More than 100 flights were cancelled and evacuation warnings were issued for thousands of people as a powerful typhoon approached Japan's...

Brasilia: A defiant President Dilma Rousseff warned Brazilians on Monday that her conservative opponents were trampling on democracy by using trumped-up...

Oslo: A freak lightning storm has killed 323 reindeer in a remote mountainous area of Norway, officials said on Monday. Dead animals were found lying on top...

New Delhi: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived on Monday to participate in the 2nd Indo-US Strategic and Commercial Dialogue to be held on Tuesday...

PARIS: Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy said on Monday he would change the country's constitution to ban full-body burkini swimsuits if he is...

BEIRUT: Rubbish is again accumulating on some Beirut streets after protesters blocked access to a dump, raising fears that last summer's garbage crisis,...

Beirut/Karkamis (Turkey): Turkish-backed forces pushed deeper into northern Syria on Monday and drew a rebuke from NATO ally the United States, which said...

Baghdad: More than 70 tents were destroyed by fire on Monday in the refugee camp of Yahayawa, near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, but no one was...

Ankara: Iran has deployed the Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defence system around its Fordow underground uranium enrichment facility,...

Srinagar: Life in Srinagar city on Monday started limping towards normalcy as authorities lifted curfew from entire Indian-administered Kashmir Valley...