His address in Parliament was one of the first times Petro Poroshenko has used the word "invasion" to refer to Russia's behaviour since the start of a separatist rebellion in the east in which the United Nations says more than 6,400 people have been killed ....

United launched an investigation after Northwestern University associate chaplain Tahera Ahmad complained about the incident last week aboard a flight from Chicago to Washington that was operated by Shuttle America for United. Ms. Ahmad said in a Facebook post the fl ....

Ramadi victory It’s not the first time that water has been used as a weapon of war in Mideast conflicts and in Iraq in particular. Earlier this year, IS reduced the flow through another lock outside the militant-held town of Fallujah, also in Anbar province. Bu ....

Hackers broke into U.S. government computers, possibly compromising the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, and investigators were probing whether the culprits were based in China, U.S. officials said on Thursday. In the latest in a string of ....

It was a historic moment for civil liberty advocates as much as it was for libertarians of the American right when the U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed on a vote of 67-32, and President Barack Obama signed into law, the first reform in a decade limiting the sweeping powers of ....

State television showed rescuers, some standing on the upturned hull of the Eastern Star cruise ship, working through the night. So far their efforts have yielded few successes, with only 14 people found alive, including the ship's captain. Also among the few res ....

Released just days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh on June 5, the report — ‘India-Bangladesh connectivity: Possibilities and challenges’ — recommends steps that both the countries can take in four aspects of conn ....

Weeks ahead of the forthcoming parliamentary elections, a new political formation — Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) — was formally launched on Wednesday to highlight issues and problems of Indian Tamils, who, according to leaders of the Alliance, accounted for ....

 The BBC apologised on Wednesday after a journalist erroneously posted a Twitter message saying Britain's Queen Elizabeth had been taken to hospital after falling ill. The 89-year-old monarch, who will become the country's longest serving sovereign in September ....

Jagdish Singh’s identity was confirmed after police recorded a witness statement of the owner of a retail shop where he worked. Police recorded a witness statement of the owner of a retail shop who admitted to holding Jagdish’s passport. Singh died on ....