World

Houston: Floodwaters deepened across much of Texas as storms dumped almost another foot (30 centimetres) of rain on the Houston area, stranding hundreds of motorists and inundating the famously congested highways that serve the…
Read More...

Lahore: At least 40 people, including a cleric and religious party leader, have been arrested and another 500 booked in Pakistan on terrorism charges for looting over a dozen houses of Christians and vandalising a church, forcing…
Read More...

New York: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi- led government marks its first year in office today, American media has taken a critical view of his accomplishments, saying his flagship 'Make in India' drive is "so far mostly hype", job growth…
Read More...

Beijing: At least 38 people were killed and six others injured in a fire at a rest home for senior citizens in central China's Henan Province, officials said today. The inferno at the privately-owned Kangleyuan Rest Home in Lushan County,…
Read More...

Beijing: China has busted 181 terror groups in Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, authorities said today, a year after the controversial anti- terror campaign was launched in the province bordering countries like Pakistan and…
Read More...

Karachi: Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain's son has escaped unhurt in a roadside bomb attack that killed at least three persons in the restive Balochistan province. The explosion occurred yesterday outside a restaurant in the Hub…
Read More...

A total of 139 grave sites and 28 human-trafficking camps have been found in a remote northern Malaysian border region, the country's top police official told reporters today. National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar revealed the findings at…
Read More...

Kathmandu: The danger of a possible flash flood in Nepal and India was averted today as a landslide- dammed river started flowing normally after sweeping away debris that had blocked it, allowing thousands of people to return to their…
Read More...

Washington: The US has accused Iraqi forces of showing "no will to fight" Islamic State fighters who seized a crucial city west of the capital, Baghdad, and rejected calls to commit ground troops to the conflict. The Iraqi forces defeated…
Read More...

Beirut: The Islamic State group has executed at least 217 people, including civilians, in and around the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in the last nine days, a monitor has said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights yesterday said it…
Read More...