Tremors were felt in New Delhi and parts of National Capital Region (NCR) of India after a 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck on the Delhi-Haryana border on Thursday morning (November 17). The tremors, which lasted nearly a minute, shook Delhi and neighbouring Gurgaon and Ghaziabad around

DHAKA: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will run for a fourth term in elections next year.  A senior politician in her party told CNN on Tuesday (November 15). “She will run for Chancellor,” Norbert Roettgen of the Christian Democratic Union said on CNN’s program

DHAKA: The Mexican government is working on a plan to deal with possible mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump, a presidential spokesman says. In a press conference on Monday (November 14), Eduardo Sanchez, spokesman for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto told that

DHAKA: Egypt’s highest court has overturned a death sentence against ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Morsi had been condemned to death for his part in a mass prison break during the 2011 revolution. He was elected president in 2012, but removed by the military a year

DHAKA: President Barack Obama has sought to assure US allies that President-elect Donald Trump will honor the country’s international alliances when he takes office in January. Obama told reporters that Trump had “expressed a great interest” in maintaining the US commitment to

The UK government has no overall Brexit plan and a strategy may not be agreed for six months, a leaked memo prepared for the Cabinet Office suggests. The memo - obtained by The Times and seen by the BBC - warns Whitehall is working on 500 Brexit-related projects and could need 30,000

ISIL fighters in Iraq launched a series of suicide bomb attacks in the city of Fallujah and an oasis town south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens. The attacks came as Iraqi forces and their allies continue fighting ISIL in the northern city of Mosul,

US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will try to “normalize US-Russia ties”, the Kremlin has said, following a phone conversation between the two. Putin wished Trump “success in implementing the election program,” reports the BBC. Trump, who

DHAKA: Gale and heavy rain in the South Island of New Zealand are impeding the airlift of hundreds of people still stranded after Monday’s powerful earthquake. Dozens of helicopters are being drafted in to move residents and tourists from the seaside town of Kaikoura, reports the

DHAKA: According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2016 looks poised to be the warmest year on record globally. With data from just the first nine months, scientists are 90 percent certain that 2016 will pass the mark set by 2015. Temperatures from January to September

DHAKA: Skywatchers are preparing for the latest ‘supermoon’ as Earth’s satellite makes its closest approach since 1948. The UK’s best chance to see it will be on Monday evening, with the moon set to rise at 16:43 GMT in Edinburgh and at 16:44 GMT in London. To observers, it

DHAKA: Seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed by Indian shelling in disputed Kashmir. The Pakistani military said the troops died in ‘unprovoked’ firing overnight in the Bhimber sector on the Line of Control (LoC). There was no immediate response from India. It is thought to

DHAKA: The Myanmar army says it shot dead at least 25 people in Rohingya Muslim villages in restive Rakhine state on Sunday. It said the people killed had been armed with machetes and wooden clubs, reports the BBC. On Saturday, the army launched attacks with helicopter gunships on

Donald Trump on Sunday told his supporters to stop harassing minorities, in his first televised sit-down interview since becoming President-elect. “I am so saddened to hear that,” Trump told CBS’ Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes” when she said Latinos and Muslims are facing

US President-elect Donald Trump has awarded key roles in his incoming team to a top Republican party official and a conservative media chief. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), will be his chief of staff. In this role, he will set the tone for the

An earthquake measuring 6.1 in magnitude has hit New Zealand’s South Island, hours after at least two people were killed by an initial quake. The new tremor struck about 13:45 pm local time (00:45 GMT) at a depth of 10km (6 miles), northeast of Christchurch, reports the BBC. A

DHAKA: A tsunami has hit after an earthquake struck New Zealand’s South Island. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude-7.8 quake hit just after midnight (11:02 GMT on Sunday), some 95km from Christchurch. The tsunami arrived in the north-eastern coast about two hours later.

DHAKA: A powerful earthquake has struck New Zealand’s South Island. Tsunami alert has been issued following the quake. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude-7.4 quake hit just after midnight (11:02 GMT on Sunday), some 95km from Christchurch, reports the BBC. Christchurch is

DHAKA: France’s state of emergency imposed after last year’s terror attacks in Paris is likely to be extended. France Prime Minister Manuel Valls has told the BBC. He said the measures were needed to “protect our democracy”. Valls was speaking on the first anniversary of

DHAKA: The Colombian government and the Farc rebel group have announced a new peace agreement, six weeks after the original deal was rejected in a popular vote. The two sides, which have been holding talks in Cuba for four years, said the revised plan incorporated proposals from the