Tom Cruise's son Connor Cruise is furious that Caitlyn Jenner, who was known as Bruce Jenner before undergoing gender transition, is set to receive the prestigious Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards next month....
Amitav Ghosh is back with his much-awaited ‘Flood of Fire’, the last in the Ibis trilogy, where history and fiction interweave and span the years leading to the first Opium War between Britain and China....
The Pentagon has estimated that active samples of anthrax could have been sent to 51 laboratories in 17 US states and the District of Columbia, in addition to labs in three countries, Efe news agency reported. ...
The White House on Wednesday said FIFA can benefit from "new leadership", after the resignation of the world soccer organisation's president, Joseph "Sepp" Blatter, amid a massive corruption scandal....
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution on disaster reduction, endorsing the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, media reported on Thursday....
The US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) is making progress on the ground and destroying the group's military capabilities, Jordan's minister of state for media affairs has said, media reported on Thursday. ...
India and the US on Wednesday signed a new framework agreement for closer cooperation in defence as visiting US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and conveyed India was an important strategic partner....
Internet giant Google on Wednesday apologised "for any confusion or misunderstanding" caused after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's images started appearing in image search results for query on "Top 10 criminals in India"....
Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who has relocated to the US, on Wednesday said she hasn't left India permanently and would return to the country when she felt safe....
On the other side of the political spectrum, Arun Jaitley, the Finance Minister claimed that “Modi restored the dignity of the Prime Minister which had disappeared during the previous regime and he has convinced the countryman that authority of the Prime Minister is supreme in every decision-makingâ€....
