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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared the move a "global challenge" to fight plastic pollution as Canada has the world's longest coast.

Brig Gen Laura Yeager currently commands Joint Task Force North, U.S. Northern Command at Fort Bliss, Texas. Yeager was commissioned in 1986 as a second lieutenant from the Reserve Officer Training Corps at California State University, Long Beach.

Acknowledging that the country has now been divided, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena , who spoke in Mullaitivu, a former bastion of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), said on Saturday that religious leaders and politicians in the count...

Over three dozen passengers were offloaded after one of them opened the emergency door, causing the emergency chute to activate.

China recently raised tariffs to 25 per cent on rare earth exports to the US and has threatened to halt exports altogether after the Trump administration raised tariffs on Chinese products and blacklisted telecommunications giant Huawei.

Indian-origin academics, business chiefs and professionals across different fields have made it to the list and other campaigners, artists and entrepreneurs to be made Officers of the Order of the British Empire.

The government has admitted there were intelligence failures before the attacks but the president has refused to cooperate with a parliamentary investigation into security lapses leading to the Easter suicide bombings.

The G20 has tasked the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to fix the system that has seen some internet heavyweights take advantage of low-tax jurisdictions in places like Ireland and pay next to nothing in other countries where they ma...

Donald Trump had threatened to impose 5 per cent import tariffs on all Mexican goods from Monday if Mexico did not agree to his demands to tighten its borders.

Previously, the courts ruled media could only publish images which pixelated the face of Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the 28-year-old Australian white supremacist accused of the March 15 mass shooting.

An additional 90,000 particles could be ingested each year if an individual only drank bottled water, according to the study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

The Asian giant now spends more than Russia and Japan on its civil and military space programmes -- unveiling ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond in the coming decade.

As Google celebrates the 373rd birth anniversary of Elena Cornaro Piscopia, here are a few things about the genius academician that you should know.

Scot Peterson was on duty as the resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on the day of the February 2018 shooting but never entered the building while bullets were flying.

China has been incensed by recent moves by the US to increase support for self-ruled and democratic Taiwan.

Trump said he had not realised that the US-born Markle had criticised him during his 2016 election campaign.