Rome, Oct 31 (IANS) Human remains were found by builders working in the Vatican’s Embassy in Rome, the Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday, prompting Italian authorities to launch a homicide probe related to…
Washington, Oct 31 (IANS) US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have called on all parties in the Yemen civil war to agree to a truce “in the next 30 days”…
Tehran, Oct 31 (IANS) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday said that the US officials have retreated from their earlier stance to cut down Iran’s oil exports to zero. “At the beginning, they said they…
Toronto, Oct 31 (IANS) The young population is more likely to be fatally struck by a vehicle on Halloween than on other nights of the year, according to a new research. The study found that…
Moscow, Oct 31 (IANS) A 17-year-old boy detonated a bomb at an office of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Arkhangelsk city on Wednesday, killing himself and injuring three agency officers, officials said. The…
Rome, Oct 31 (IANS/AKI) Some 180 veterinarians from 14 African countries will benefit from a training programme launched by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the US-based Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, FAO…
Rome, Oct 31 (IANS/AKI) A total of 1,987 migrants drowned while crossing the Mediterranean this year and over two-thirds died in waters between North Africa and Sicily despite a sharp fall in arrivals to Italy,…
Kabul, Oct 31 (IANS) At least seven people were killed and eight others wounded after a suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying prison employees on the outskirts of capital on Wednesday, officials said. Kabul police…
Dubai, Oct 31 (IANS) An Indian man was rescued after nearly drowning at Dubai’s popular JBR beach, the media reported on Wednesday. The incident happened on Tuesday. Paramedics rushed to the scene and revived the…
Islamabad, Oct 31 (IANS) Radical Islamist groups protested on Wednesday in a number of Pakistan cities against the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the death sentence of Christian woman Asia Bibi, who had been convicted…
San Francisco, Oct 31 (IANS) US-based chip maker AMD on Wednesday unveiled the new Radeon Vega Mobile graphics processors for next generation premium notebooks including Apple MacBook Pro. The processors include the AMD Radeon Pro…
Sydney, Oct 31 (IANS) A team of researchers have taught an Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme — that used to recognise faces on Facebook — to identify galaxies in deep space. The AI bot named “ClaRAN”…
Damascus, Oct 31 (IANS) More than 1,500 bodies have been found in a mass grave in Syria’s Raqqa province, the former de facto capital of the Islamic State (IS), the media reported on Wednesday. Citing…
London, Oct 31 (IANS) In a significant finding, an analysis spanning nearly four decades has revealed that young men living in the US are overall more likely to die in the summer months. Published in…
Dhaka, Oct 31 (IANS) The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday said that it needs more funds to continue assisting the hundreds of thousands Rohingya refugees, who have been living in Bangladesh camps after…
By Rachel V. Thomas Seoul, Oct 31 (IANS) Samsung, a global leader in display technology, is confident of coming up with an industry-leading display technology in its next flagship smartphone, a top executive said here…
Seoul, Oct 31 (IANS) South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed his thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday for sending him some “Modi jackets”, a vest-like sleeveless jacket the leader usually dons. Moon uploaded…
Kabul, Oct 31 (IANS) At least 25 people, including senior government and Army officials, were killed when a military helicopter crashed due to bad weather in the region bordering Afghanistan’s Farah and Herat provinces on…
Seoul, Oct 31 (IANS) North Korea is apparently preparing for a possible visit by international inspectors to verify the shutdown of its nuclear test site, Seoul’s spy agency said on Wednesday during a parliamentary audit….
Jakarta, Oct 31 (IANS) Indonesian search and rescue teams on Wednesday were tracking an area of the Java Sea where a Lion Air plane crashed earlier this week with 189 people on board and where…