17 Oct 2019 | 1:30 PMRUINERWOLD, NETHERLANDS: A man who paid the rent on a Dutch farmhouse where six members of a family were found locked away in a secret room will appear in court on Thursday on charges of unlawful detention and harming others' health, prosecutors said.
17 Oct 2019 | 1:27 PMCHANDIGARH: Caught on camera, a clerk managed to scare a thief away with his own weapon. The thief was arrested on last Tuesday for a robbery he committed on Monday at a hotel in Paducah.
17 Oct 2019 | 1:19 PMPESHAWAR: Eight people were killed and 11 others injured in a head-on collision between a car and a van in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
17 Oct 2019 | 11:13 AMMANILA: Three children were among four people killed after a powerful earthquake hit the southern Philippines, authorities said on Thursday.
Race against time17 Oct 2019 | 7:48 AMBRUSSELS/DUBLIN: Negotiators struggled on Wednesday to clinch an eleventh-hour Brexit deal on the eve of an EU summit, raising the chances that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will have to seek an extension of the October 31 deadline for Britain’s exit from the bloc.
17 Oct 2019 | 7:48 AMHONG KONG: Hong Kong’s embattled leader abandoned a State of the Union-style speech on Wednesday after she was heckled by rowdy opposition lawmakers during chaotic scenes inside the city’s legislature.
17 Oct 2019 | 7:48 AMSAN FRANCISCO: A 53-year-old Indian-origin IT professional has been arrested after he dramatically walked into a Northern California police station along with a body in his car and confessed to have killed three others at his apartment, over 350 km away, according to US media reports.
17 Oct 2019 | 7:48 AMCEYLANPINAR (TURKEY): Turkey rebuffed international pressure to curb its military offensive against Kurdish militants in Syria on Wednesday as US President Donald Trump dispatched his deputy Mike Pence to Ankara to demand a ceasefire.
GLOBE TROT17 Oct 2019 | 7:48 AMLOS ANGELES: After facing backlash for using the N-word in one of her Instagram videos, actress Gina Rodriguez has apologised to people. On Tuesday, Gina posted a video of herself getting her hair and makeup done.
17 Oct 2019 | 6:41 AMISLAMABAD: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has decided, in principle, to keep Pakistan in its Grey List till February 2020, directing Islamabad to take extra measures for complete elimination of terror financing and money laundering, according to media reports on Wednesday.
16 Oct 2019 | 8:55 PMPARIS: Two French supermarket chains came under fire on Wednesday after a lawmaker staged raids on Paris trash cans that uncovered packages of food within their use-by dates as France marked its national anti-food waste day.
16 Oct 2019 | 1:13 PMWASHINGTON: Democratic presidential hopefuls denounced President Donald Trump's decision to pull U.S. troops back from northern Syria, saying in an Ohio debate on Tuesday he had endangered America's longtime Kurdish allies while empowering foes Russia and Syria.
16 Oct 2019 | 5:54 PMCHANDIGARH: Perhaps, this is how karma pays you. And, for this man it was instant. An alleged thief’s attempt to break into a car failed after he threw a brick at the car’s window, only to have it bounce back and hit him on the face.
16 Oct 2019 | 11:50 AMSEOUL: Aides to Kim Jong Un are convinced the North Korean leader plans "a great operation", state media said on Wednesday in a report that included lavish descriptions and images of the leader riding a white horse up North Korea's most sacred mountain.
16 Oct 2019 | 10:35 AMMEHTARLAM: Several people were feared killed and injured after a car bomb blast rocked outside administrative office in Alishing district in Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman province on Wednesday, a provincial government spokesman said, reported Xinhua news agency.
16 Oct 2019 | 10:23 AMMEXICO CITY: At least 15 people were killed in a gunfight between Mexican military and armed men in the southern state of Guerrero, authorities said.
16 Oct 2019 | 9:50 AMWASHINGTON: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, long a standard bearer for progressive causes, has secured the endorsement of the newest star on the leftist stage, U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
16 Oct 2019 | 9:34 AMUNITED NATIONS: At least one in three children under five across the globe are malnourished and not developing properly, a report of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) revealed.
16 Oct 2019 | 8:55 AMWASHINGTON: Top Democratic presidential aspirants on Tuesday overwhelmingly supported the move of their party colleagues in the House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump, saying he had broken the law and there is strong evidence.
16 Oct 2019 | 9:33 AMSEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to surmount US-led sanctions which, he says, have inflicted “many hardships and trials” on his country.
globe trot16 Oct 2019 | 7:38 AMIslamabad: The UK media on Tuesday was splashed with images of Kate Middleton’s traditional wardrobe choice for her maiden official tour of Pakistan with husband Prince William.
16 Oct 2019 | 7:38 AMSYRIA:Turkey ignored US sanctions and pressed on with its assault on northern Syria on Tuesday, while the Russia-backed Syrian army roared into one of the most hotly contested cities abandoned by the US forces in Donald Trump’s retreat.
16 Oct 2019 | 7:38 AMHONG KONG:Hong Kong’s leader said Tuesday that “it’s totally irresponsible and unfounded” to suggest the semi-autonomous Chinese territory is becoming a police state as her government grapples with protests now in their fifth month.
16 Oct 2019 | 7:38 AMBRUSSELS:Michel Barnier, the European Union’s (EU) chief negotiator, on Tuesday said a Brexit deal could still be struck this week despite it becoming “more difficult”” to reach an agreement.
16 Oct 2019 | 7:38 AMDUBAI:Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the United Arab Emirates on his first visit to the oil-rich nation in over a decade.
15 Oct 2019 | 6:39 PMDHAKA: A transgender candidate has been elected as councillor for a rural Bangladeshi town, the first in the ultra-conservative Muslim-majority nation where laws still discriminate against sexual minorities.
15 Oct 2019 | 5:58 PMPARIS: France’s culture minister says the melted, twisted scaffolding atop Notre Dame Cathedral will be removed “in the coming weeks” to allow restoration work to begin.
15 Oct 2019 | 3:42 PMBEIRUT: Human Rights Watch warned European countries on Tuesday against transferring foreign jihadist suspects from prisons in war-torn north-eastern Syria to Iraq.
15 Oct 2019 | 3:24 PMLOS ANGELES: Amidst a bitter custody battle, Jeremy Renner’s ex-wife Sonni Pacheco has claimed that the actor once threatened to kill her and himself.
15 Oct 2019 | 2:52 PMISTANBUL: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed not to allow any Islamic State fighters to escape northern Syria, in an editorial published on Tuesday, following fears from Western nations over its offensive in the region.
16 Oct 2019 | 6:45 AMLONDON: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo jointly won the 2019 Booker Prize on Monday after judges “flouted” the rules by declaring a tie.
15 Oct 2019 | 12:19 PMWASHINGTON: Protesting Turkey’s military offensive in northeast Syria, US President Donald Trump has announced sanctions against Turkish officials, raising of steel tariffs and ending negotiations on a USD 100 billion trade deal.
15 Oct 2019 | 7:54 AMMADRID:Spain’s Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine separatist leaders from Catalonia between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in a failed independence bid, triggering protests across the region.
15 Oct 2019 | 7:54 AMBEIRUT/ANKARA:Russia-backed Syrian forces wasted no time in taking advantage of an abrupt US retreat from Syria on Monday, deploying deep inside Kurdish-held territory south of the Turkish frontier less than 24 hours after Washington announced a full withdrawal.
15 Oct 2019 | 7:54 AMLONDON:British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday set out his government’s priorities at a parliamentary ceremony full of pomp and pageantry attended by Queen Elizabeth II.
15 Oct 2019 | 7:54 AMMANILA:The Philippines’ top policeman, who leads the nation’s deadly drugs crackdown, quit on Monday as he faces allegations of protecting officers accused of selling a huge haul of seized narcotics.
15 Oct 2019 | 7:54 AMTUNIS:Kais Saied, a political outsider who is backed by leftists and Islamists and wants to remake national politics, is set to become Tunisia's president after his opponent conceded defeat in Sunday's election.
15 Oct 2019 | 7:54 AMHONG KONG:Tens of thousands of mostly young pro-democracy activists rallied in Hong Kong on Monday in the first legal protest since the introduction of colonial-era emergency laws and pleaded for help from the United States.
globe trot15 Oct 2019 | 7:54 AMHanoi: Vietnam has pulled the animated film “Abominable” from theatres over a scene featuring a map of the South China Sea showing Beijing’s claims in the flashpoint waterway.
14 Oct 2019 | 11:14 PMLONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday set out his government’s priorities at a parliamentary ceremony full of pomp and pageantry attended by the queen, with Brexit on top of the agenda.
14 Oct 2019 | 10:41 PMSAN FRANCISCO: Popular photo-messaging app Snapchat suffered a major outage on Monday, with users saying they were unable to send snaps to their friends and family members.
14 Oct 2019 | 9:05 PMVATICAN CITY: Pope Francis’ main bodyguard Domenico Giani, the Vatican’s security chief, resigned on Monday over a leak to the media of details of a financial wrongdoing probe.
14 Oct 2019 | 6:05 PMTOKYO: At least 56 people have been killed in Japan by Typhoon Hagibis, national broadcaster NHK said on Monday, as rescuers worked into the night searching for survivors.