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October 3, 2016 7:38 PM
Turkish military officials say 15 Syrian opposition fighters have been killed in an ongoing battle with Islamic State militants in northern Syria. The officials also say that about 35 Syrian rebels have been wounded in the fighting, which seeks to capture seven residential districts south of the tow...
October 3, 2016 6:02 PM
At least six lakh people in North Korea have been affected by heavy flooding that damaged or destroyed thirty thousand homes. The Red Cross called for urgent humanitarian aid ahead of the winter. The disaster hit, in many ways, at probably the worst time, said Chris Staines, head of the Internationa...
October 3, 2016 6:00 PM
Britain's Treasury Chief, Philip Hammond, has warned of turbulence in the coming years as the country negotiates its exit from the European Union. Hammond told the BBC today that Britain will face a couple of years, or longer, of uncertainty as Britain goes through the process of leaving the 28...
October 3, 2016 5:52 PM
In Syria, at least two suicide bombers detonated explosive belts in Central Hama city today, leaving two people dead and 12 others wounded. <br/><br/>Citing a police source inside the city, state news agency SANA said, the attacks hit Assi Square in the city centre about 15 minutes apart...
October 3, 2016 5:17 PM
The 2016 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for discoveries about autophagy - how the body breaks down and recycles cellular components. Ohsumi's work is important because it helps explain what goes wrong in a range of diseases, from cancer to Parkinson...
October 3, 2016 12:56 PM
World Bank says, more than 700 million people around the world are still living in extreme poverty. In a report released yesterday, based on data upto 2013, it said 767 million people are living on less than a dollar and ninety cents a day. <br/><br/>The figure is 13 percent down from th...
October 3, 2016 12:47 PM
In Afghanistan, Taliban militants today launched an attack on the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. The attack began in the early hours at the southern and eastern approaches to the provincial capital. Head of the police coordination office in Kunduz said, the militants had been pushed back. <br/&g...
October 3, 2016 11:12 AM
In Thailand, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the capital Bangkok today calling on the Junta to address land rights and housing needs. Protesters marking World Habitat Day outside the regional UN headquarters in Asia at Bangkok said they would submit a petition to the United Nations and...
October 3, 2016 8:35 AM
Haiti has begun evacuating residents from high-risk areas as Hurricane Matthew threatens widespread damage with flash floods and winds of up to 240 kilometres per hour. The US National Hurricane Center said, the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic in almost a decade is expected to hit Haiti and Jama...
October 3, 2016 8:34 AM
In Japan, a very strong typhoon is heading towards southern islands. The Meteorological Agency said, Typhoon Chaba is moving at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour. It was at about 290 kilometers south of Naha, Okinawa Prefecture. It is packing winds of more than 180 kilometers per hour near its cente...
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