A manhunt is under way in the Canadian city of Moncton after a gunman shot dead three members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and left two others injured. Residents of Moncton, a city of about 69,000 people around 95 miles (150 kms) northeast of ...

DAMASCUS: On Tuesday morning, a 40-year-old woman called Ferial Mustafa whose son was tortured to death by militants in Syria cast her vote for President Bashar Al Assad at a polling booth in Gundanieh, on the outskirts of Damascus. She stood proudly ...

NEW DELHI: Union Minister and senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde asked for water and to be rushed to the hospital before he fell unconscious and passed away early on Tuesday, sources said. "Munde was going to Indira Gandhi International Airport in his ...

Brad Pitt has filed a temporary emergency restraining order against his red carpet attacker Vitalii Sediuk, during the premier of 'Maleficent', according to reports. According to E! News, the protective orders were issued by police and good for five days and the ...

LAHORE: In an apparent 'honour killing', a 25-year-old pregnant woman was brutally beaten and stoned to death on Tuesday outside the high court here by her father and brothers for marrying the man of her choice. Police said Farzana Parveen, resident of ...

MOGADISHU: Somalia's Shabaab rebels launched a major attack on the national parliament on Saturday, setting off a car bomb and penetrating the building with suicide commandos, police and witnesses said. A huge car bomb went off outside the gates of ...

Internet giant Google is celebrating one of the greatest toy inventions ever — Rubik's Cube — with a doodle. Today Google homepage showcases Rubik's Cube which is an exact replica of the invention and you can play it virtually on your computer.

AMETHI: The bad show by Aam Aadmi Party's Kumar Vishwas in Amethi is an eye-opener for him, said voters. You can't make elections a stage for poetry competition, said a local Sachin Kumar. Despite making initial strides in Amethi, Vishwas failed to ...

343 Industries has revealed that Halo 5: Guardians will launch on Xbox One in the fall of 2015. Bonnie Ross, general manager at 343, made the announcement on a blog post that detailed the future of the Halo franchise as a whole. Ross talked about Master ...

LONDON: David Moyes will receive a pay-off of "single-digit millions" following his sacking by Manchester United, executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward revealed on Thursday. Speaking during a conference call to discuss United's latest financial results, ...

LOS ANGELES: US coach Jurgen Klinsmann named his 30-man provisional squad on Monday from which he'll select his 23-player World Cup finals squad. The most notable omission is DC United forward Eddie Johnson, a regular in the United States' ...

LOS ANGELES: US coach Jurgen Klinsmann named his 30-man provisional squad on Monday from which he'll select his 23-player World Cup finals squad. The most notable omission is DC United forward Eddie Johnson, a regular in the United States' ...

NEW DELHI: India has joined the US in ringing alarm bells over China's expansionist expeditions in the South China Sea clashing with Vietnam and the Philippines early this week. Though trying to play safe, New Delhi refused to name China or Vietnam and ...

LONDON: Amnesty International on Friday alleged that Nigerian security officials failed to act on an advance warning about a militant group's raid on a boarding school that led to the abduction of more than 300 girls. The human rights organization cited ...

NEW DELHI: After the company's acquisition by Microsoft got the final seal, it looks like key Nokia employees are moving to other firms. Lumia photography lead at Nokia, Ari Partinen, who was part of the team responsible for Nokia's imaging focused ...

FRANKFURT: Germany injected a strong dose of youth into their provisional 30-man World Cup squad, calling up talented Schalke 04 teenagers Leon Goretzka and Max Meyer on Thursday. Along with 19-year-old Goretzka and 18-year-old Meyer, who had a ...

Sony has had a rough time over the past year, with both its top smartphones being outmatched by rivals' products. Xperia Z was a good smartphone that was marred by a poor display, and its successor Z1 was an improvement, but only slightly. The company ...

TRICHY: Security was beefed up on Thursday at the Trichy Junction railway station and other important places in the city after twin blasts in a train at Chennai Central railway station. All the passengers were screened and their luggage was thoroughly ...

BEIJING: A powerful bomb went off at a railway station in Urumqi, capital of China's disturbed Xinjiang area, while Chinese president Xi Jinping was visiting the region on Wednesday. State media said "the number of casualties remains unclear". State media ...

TRIPOLI: Gunmen stormed the seat of Libya's General National Congress (GNC) in Tripoli on Tuesday as it was preparing to elect a new prime minister, an MP said. "Armed men have besieged the congress, but we do not know the motive of the attack," Tahar ...