International News Updates

Washington: A shooting in the US state of Georgia has left five people dead, media reports said Saturday. Seven victims, including children, were found when police were called to the scene, located at Willow Tree Circle in suburban Atlanta county of Douglasville, around 3 p.m. Saturday, WXIA-TV Atlanta quoted Douglasville county sheriff’s Glenn Daniel as […]

At least 3,600 children have been orphaned due to the Ebola outbreak in West African countries, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) has said

Even Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and social activist Mukhtaran Mai are not being honoured in Pakistan as women still remained the most backward in the country, a leading daily said Saturday

Analysis results from the TransAsia Airways flight that crashed Wednesday showed a "Mayday" call and engine failure a minute before the blackboxes stopped working, Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council (ASC) said today

China has warned that "positive trends" in its relations with the US will be reversed if President Barack Obama meets the Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama

A suspected target killer in Pakistan was shot dead today during an "escape bid", a day after he confessed before the media to killing 22 people

Beijing:At least 17 people were killed and four injured when a fire broke out in a warehouse in China’s Guandong province, the authorities said Friday. Five people were rescued from the warehouse’s building and nine people have been detained over the incident which occurred Thursday afternoon, Xinhua quoted government authorities as saying. The fire, which […]

New York:A 41-year-old Indian-born investment banking executive described as “extraordinary” by his colleagues has died in a fiery suburban train crash just outside the city. Aditya Tomar, a vice president in JP Morgan’s asset management division, was among six people killed Tuesday evening when the train hit a sports utility vehicle (SUV) stuck on the […]

An Indian-American pilot and/or his passenger in Colorado were likely taking selfies when the pilot lost control of the plane, causing it to crash, and killing them both last spring, according to federal investigators

Taipei:At least 13 people were killed after a TransAsia Airways plane clipped a bridge and crashed into a river Wednesday near the Taiwanese capital. A total of 27 passengers were rescued and taken to nearby hospitals, Xinhua reported. Flight ATR-72, which was headed for Kinmen from Taipei, had 58 people onboard including 31 passengers from […]

Amman:Jordanian government Tuesday confirmed the killing of the pilot held captive by the Islamic State(IS), Xinhua reported citing the state-run Petra new agency. Jordan Armed Forces said Tuesday it will take revenge for the killing of the pilot. The army said in a statement that it tried to secure his release but the criminal gang […]

Islamabad: Autopsy report revealed Tuesday that a one-and-half-year-old girl was raped before being strangled to death in Pakistan’s Karachi, media reported. The body was recovered in Nazimabad, however, it is not yet clear where the rape and murder took place, Dawn online reported. Additional Police Surgeon Rubina Hasan, who conducted the minor’s autopsy, said she […]

Father Davis Chiramel, chairman of the Kidney Federation of India popularly known as "Kidney Father From Kerala", has launched a voluntary charity organisation in Britain to add more organ donors from the South Asian communities, especially Indians

Boko Haram militants killed at least 12 people Sunday as government forces repelled multiple attacks by the group in Maiduguri city, capital of Nigeria's Borno state, hospital sources said

Tokyo: Japan Sunday launched a backup information gathering satellite (IGS), the country’s first launch of this year. The satellite is equipped with a radar spy instrument capable of peering through clouds, darkness and camouflage to obtain high-resolution imagery of the Earth’s surface. But the satellite’s exact capabilities were not disclosed, Xinhua reported. The Japan Aerospace […]