An opinion poll, commissioned by an independent organisation in Sri Lanka a few weeks before the August 17 Parliamentary polls, has revealed that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe enjoys higher approval rating in seven out of the nine provinces than former president and t ....

The U.S. bomb, “Little Boy,” the first one used at war, killed 140,000 people, and a second bomb “Fat Man,” dropped over Nagasaki three days later, killed another 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender in World War II. Matsui called the nuc ....

Mr. Aldrin, now 85, made the first lunar landing in 1969 and has tweeted his official travel voucher and customs forms for the moon rock he brought back. The travel voucher for his trip to space shows that Mr. Aldrin claimed $33.31 for a journey from Houston, Texas, ....

"With the consent of the parties, the Federal Court has formally set aside the approval of the Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Project," the Environment Department said in a statement. Adani took over the Carmichael coal project in 2010 with plans to develop ....

Coming ahead of the meeting of the National Security Advisers proposed for later this month, the revelations were made in a piece written by Mr. Khosa who led the probe into the 26/11 attacks, in the Pakistani newspaper Dawn. The former head of the Federal Investigation ....

The blaze, which has scorched about 54,000 acres (21,853 hectares) east of Lower Lake, a town about 110 miles (180 km) north of San Francisco, was the fiercest of 20 large fires being battled by 9,000 fire-fighters across the state, officials said. A separate blaze t ....

Madison County Sheriff Randy Tucker and Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest said they don’t know why the suspect would have shot 37-year-old Kendrick Armond Brown. Brown was facing charges of selling cocaine and had been sentenced to prison time on p ....

The report by Airwars, a project aimed at tracking the international airstrikes targeting the extremists, said it believed 57 specific strikes killed civilians and caused 48 suspected “friendly fire” deaths. It said the strikes have killed more than 15,000 I ....

 Major political parties in Sri Lanka have flatly rejected the Tamil National Alliance (TNA)’s demand for federalism. The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)-led United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA); United National Party (UNP)-led United National Front fo ....

Touting the plan at a White House event on Monday, Mr. Obama said the unprecedented carbon dioxide limits are “the single most important step” America has ever taken to fight climate change. He warned that because the problem is so large, if the world doesn& ....