October 6, 2016
Australia and the United States have agreed to share the cost of the U.S. military's presence in Australia's tropical north, a critical part of President Barack Obama's "pivot" to Asia, Australian Defense Minister Marise Payne said on Thursday.
October 6, 2016
LES CAYES, Haiti — Two days after Hurricane Matthew rampaged across Haiti's remote southwestern peninsula with roaring winds and flooding rains, local authorities and international aid workers still lack a clear picture of the storm's destruction.
October 5, 2016
Professional mountaineer Arjun Vajpai made the nation proud today as he scaled the world's sixth highest mountain Cho Oyu. The 23-year-old reached the summit before dawn along with his sherpas and another expedition member after leaving from Camp 3 post-midnight.
Indian mountaineer Arjun Vajpai
October 5, 2016
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi out to ensure no escalation in domestic political war of words today issued a note of caution to his cabinet colleagues and party leaders. During the morning cabinet meet PM asked the ministers not to speak out of turn and indulge in no chest beating.
October 4, 2016
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told his U.S. ally Barack Obama "you can go to hell" in a speech Tuesday that was his latest tirade against the U.S. over its criticism of his deadly anti-drug campaign.
October 4, 2016
British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that ``revealed the secrets of exotic matter,'' the prize committee said.
The three "opened the door'' to an unknown world where matter takes unusual states or phases, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
October 4, 2016
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
October 4, 2016
CHENNAI – It isn’t Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa alone who is the centre of attention at the city’s Apollo Hospital. Somewhere on the second floor where the ailing chief minister is being treated by a team of top doctors, another lady holds court these days with top officials queuing up for instructions.
October 3, 2016
HERNDON, Virginia — Donald Trump is drawing scorn from veterans' groups after he suggested that soldiers who suffer from mental health issues might not be as strong as those who don't.
