Several people were killed after seven coaches of the Kamayani Express and five bogies of the Mumbai-Jabalpur Janata Express derailed while crossing a swollen Machak river near Harda in Madhya ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said he would discuss Washington`s call for a halt to activities that are raising tensions in the disputed South China Sea with Chinese Foreign ...

A whale appeared in the marina of one of Buenos Aires’ most exclusive neighborhoods on Monday, periodically surfacing alongside luxury yachts while hundreds of onlookers tried to capture the moment ...

A big-game trophy collector from Idaho has ignited a firestorm of criticism from animal-rights activists for flaunting online images of herself posed with the carcasses of a giraffe and other ...

A dilapidated building collapsed outside Mumbai on Tuesday killing at least 11 people, the second such accident around the Indian financial capital in a week, a rescue official said.

U.S.-led airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria have likely killed at least 459 civilians over the past year, a report by an independent monitoring group said ...

- With the land boundary agreement (LBA) now complete, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is beginning work on the Teesta water sharing agreement with Bangladesh. 

Nigerian troops rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several camps of the Islamic extremists in the northeast of the country, an army statement has said. Spokesman ...

Heavy monsoon rains in India have killed more than 100 people in the past week and forced tens of thousands of people to take shelter in relief camps, India's home ...

A tractor laden with explosives was driven at a military police station, reports by Turkish media say.

Thousands of firefighters were battling nearly two dozen blazes across drought-parched California Saturday, while at least two of the infernos shut down miles of highway traffic, authorities and media said.

Greece may seek 24 billion euros in a first tranche of bailout aid from international lenders in August to prop up its banks and repay debts falling due at the ...

Ending the crisis that has seen thousands of attempts by migrants to reach England from Calais in recent weeks is a “top priority”, the interior ministers of France and Britain ...

The World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) began from today with the main objective to create awareness among the people for beneficial of breast feeding.

Severe flooding across Myanmar hampered rescue efforts on Saturday as thousands sheltered at monasteries after rising waters triggered by torrential rains killed at least 27 people, officials said.

A Colombian military transport plane crashed in the country’s north on Friday, killing all 11 personnel aboard. The twin-engine CASA-235 reported a motor problem before it disappeared and its wreckage ...

 Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, fondly known as the 'People's President', was laid to rest in his hometown Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu on Thursday.

Yakub Memon, convicted in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, was hanged till death at the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning, a few hours after the Supreme Court ...

Air safety investigators have a “high degree of confidence” that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model ...

The United States and Turkey have not yet agreed which Syrian opposition fighters they will support in a joint effort to help clear Islamic State from an area along the ...