Prime Minister Sushil Koirala on Sunday appealed to Nepalese people to donate blood as hospitals badly needed it to treat more than 6,000 people injured in the killer quake. Koirala, after chairing a cabinet meeting, also asked the bussinessmen to open big departmental s ....

Syrian military aircraft bombed the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour on Sunday, a day after insurgents seized control of it as part of a broader offensive that has left government forces in the area reeling. The opposition campaign, spearheaded by the al-Qaida-affil ....

Aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition battling Shiite rebels in Yemen struck targets in several cities on Sunday, including the capital, security officials said, as fighting raged across the country. The continued airstrikes and combat between rival factions on the groun ....

Australia on Monday said it was deeply concerned about an Australian-trained doctor who appears in an Islamic State propaganda video which urges other medical professionals to join the jihadists. The slick video, uploaded to YouTube, shows a man who identifies himself as ....

Iraqi officials say two bombings, one near a marketplace and the other near a courthouse, have killed seven people. Police officials say the first of Friday’s attacks took place in the morning, when a bomb exploded near an outdoor market in the Sunni town of Tarmiy ....

President Barack Obama joked about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Rodham Clinton and others as he headlined the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with some stand-up comedy. His performance Saturday night raised money for scho ....

A senior trekking guide says at least 17 people have been killed after an avalanche triggered by Nepal’s massive earthquake slammed into a section of the Mount Everest mountaineering base camp. Another 61 people have been injured. Ang Tshering of the Nepal Mountain ....

One of the eight alleged smugglers, Mohd Ahmed Punjabi Guzar, on board Pakistani boat seized with 232 kilograms of heroin by the Indian Coast Guard holds a health card of United Arab Emirates, indicating he might be residing there, while others were found with Pakistani cur ....

A powerful, 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley before noon Saturday, collapsing houses, leveling centuries-old temples and cutting open roads in the worst temblor in the Himalayan nation in over 80 years. Dozen ....

speculations about “I is coming” can now be put to rest. Xiaomi, at its first global launch event in India unveiled its Mi 4i smartphone. Over 1,500 fans packed the Siri Fort Auditorium to witness the launch. Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun in his maiden publi ....