Live updates (in IST): 3:30 pm: He shakes hand with President Pranab Mukherjee. 3:28 pm: Mr. Netanyahu concludes his speech saying Indians are always welcome in Israel. 3:25 pm: "I talk to Mr. Modi quite often," says Mr. Netanyahu. When we met last ti ....

 Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose government has outright denied involvement of IS in the recent murders of two foreigners, has vowed to hunt down and try the perpetrators of the crime that has aroused international concern. The government has already ....

Squaring off at the Las Vegas, Nevada, venue of the debate against her strongest opponent in the polls, self-described socialist and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Ms. Clinton scored big points in a testy exchange on gun control reform, where she blasted the Senator fo ....

At least 13 people, including seven children, were killed on Tuesday as a massive rockslide hit makeshift homes in a slum in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi. The incident occurred early this morning when a mass of rock and mud crashed down on three shanties erected ....

 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board concluded on Tuesday in its final report on the crash in July 2014 that killed all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch. But the long-awaited fin ....

Robby Oehlers, whose cousin Daisy was among the 298 people killed when the Boeing 777 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, said the conclusion from the Dutch investigation was shared with family members at a meeting in The Hague. “It was a Buk,&rdq ....

Mr. James’s book was chosen from a shortlist of seven writers, who included the bookies favourite Hanya Yanagihara for A Little Life, and the British writer of Indian origin Sunjeev Sahota for The Year of the Runaways. Set in Jamaica Set in Jamaica, the 686- ....

Mr. Mukherjee went to the university to inaugurate a Centre for Excellence in Information Communication and Technology before wrapping up his Palestine visit, the first ever by an Indian President. As soon as Mr. Mukherjee’s speech was over, a group of students ....

The race for the parliamentary seat in Punjab, Pakistan’s richest province and Mr. Sharif’s power base, pits the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) party against the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Last year PTI’s leader, crickete ....

 The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2015 was awarded to Angus Deaton of Princeton University, NJ, USA, "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare". By linking detailed individual choices and aggregate outcomes, his research has helped transform ....