Tokyo: Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Koya Nishikawa resigned Monday following allegations that he received illegal political funds, reports. According to the Jiji News Agency,...
Dhaka: The war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh will announce its verdict on former Jatiya Party legislator Abdul Jabbar on charges of genocide and other serious war...
London: Providing a vital clue to the future of Greenland, scientists have measured how the island’s ice sheet reacted to a warm period 8,000 to 5,000...
Kabul: New US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, who paid an unannounced visit to Afghanistan Saturday, said the timetable for the drawdown of American forces from Afghanistan would...
Baghdad: Islamic State (IS) militants burned up to 43 people alive inside iron cages in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said Saturday. Earlier,...
Beijing: Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin Saturday called in India’s Ambassador to China, Ashok K. Kantha, to lodge a “stern representation” over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
London: A a long-lost Sherlock Holmes story written by Arthur Conan Doyle for a fundraiser has been unearthed after lying in an attic for almost 50...
Singapore: Raising hope for the development of effective dengue treatment, researchers have identified a super-potent antibody which requires a minute amount to neutralise the virus. Only...
London: Liberia is planning to reopen its borders following a reduction in the number of Ebola cases being reported in the country, a media report said...
Washington: Amid the flak generated by President Barack Obama’s recent comments about religious intolerance in India, the White House has said it’s committed to working with...