British author Salman Rushdie, whose sacrilegious writings have made him the target of death threats, was stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday and airlifted......
Britain officially declared a drought in parts of England on Friday as households faced new water usage restrictions during a period of prolonged hot and dry weather that has already severely tested......
A huge fire that has devastated swathes of southwestern France was largely contained, but firefighters face another “complicated” day, local authorities said on Friday.The 40 kilometre active fire......
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Thursday he had “personally approved” the dramatic raid on Donald Trump’s Florida home and, in a highly unusual move, was requesting the warrant justifying......
A prominent Taliban cleric, Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, was killed in an attack in a seminary in Kabul when the attacker detonated explosives hidden in a plastic artificial leg on Thursday, according......
A four-day “extreme heat” warning came into force in parts of England and Wales on Thursday, with temperatures poised to top 35 Celsius in another heatwave that could cause wildfires and pressure......
Iran dismissed as “fiction” on Thursday US allegations that it had plotted to kill former White House national security adviser (NSA) John Bolton in retaliation for the assassination of one of its......
Taiwan’s army held another live-fire drill Thursday after Beijing ended its largest-ever military exercises around the island and repeated threats to bring the self-ruled democracy under its......
Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has requested entry into Thailand for a temporary stay in a second Southeast Asian country after fleeing his island nation last month amid mass......
The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday condemned the Indian government’s “mischievous move” of observing “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” on August 14 — Pakistan’s day of independence.According to......
Former US president Donald Trump indicated he would testify on Wednesday in a New York investigation by the state’s attorney general into his family’s business practices, with the possible testimony......
New Mexico police announced on Wednesday that the "primary suspect" in the recent killings of four Muslim men in the city of Albuquerque had been arrested.Police identified the suspect as 51-year-old......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party on Tuesday lost power in Bihar, the third most populous state in India, after its regional ally broke ranks to join an opposition alliance that now has the......
Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian freedom fighter and another fighter in a gunbattle in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the military said, triggering further attacks in which......
Sri Lanka’s state-run electricity monopoly will raise tariffs by a stinging 264 per cent for people consuming the least, it announced on Tuesday, while higher users will face a smaller increase.The......
