Tokyo, Sep 7 (IANS) Japan has asked the European Union (EU) to share personal data of its air passengers in order to strengthen the country’s anti-terror security plan for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, a…
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday left the national capital for Laos to attend the 14th India-Asean Summit and the 11th East Asia Summit. Modi will be attending the annual…
Mexico City, Sep 7 (IANS) Three police officers and a helicopter pilot were killed when criminals downed an aircraft in Mexico’s Michoacan state, officials said. The helicopter was carrying out an operation in the Apatzingan…
New York, Sep 7 (IANS) Apple’s iPhone 6s was the world’s top-selling smartphone model in the second quarter of 2016, a report said on Wednesday, adding that the US giant currently accounts for two of…
Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) Three Expedition 48 astronauts safely returned to the Earth on Wednesday after completing a 172-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft carrying astronaut Jeff Williams of…
Beijing, Sep 7 (IANS) Some of China’s biggest banks have shed around 35,000 employees this year and cut average salaries as they sought to reduce costs amid stagnant revenue growth, a media report said on…
Islamabad, Sep 7 (IANS) More than 80 per cent Pakistanis consume contaminated and unsafe water, a top official said. Minister for Science and Technology Rana Tanveer told the Senate on Tuesday said the Pakistan Council…
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. (File Photo: IANS) Brasilia, Sep 7 (IANS) Brazil’s deposed president, Dilma Rousseff, left the capital city of Brasilia to return to her adopted hometown of Porto Alegre. A few dozen supporters…
Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said leaks on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other American politicians were coming “reasonably soon” and that information “teases” could drop as early as next week….
Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) Republican and Democratic Senate leaders on Tuesday have again blocked a $1.1 billion plan to fight the Zika virus for the third time blaming the each other for inaction on critical…
Beijing, Sep 7 (IANS) Chinese stocks opened mixed on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.02 per cent to open at 3,091.33 points. The smaller Shenzhen Component Index opened 0.01 per cent lower…
Brasilia, Sep 7 (IANS) Brazilian bank workers began an indefinite strike after refusing the annual raise proposal offered by the National Federation of Banks (Fenaban). According to Lourenco Prado, president of the National Confederation of…
New York, Sep 7 (IANS) US stocks extended gains on Tuesday, with the Nasdaq Composite Index closing at new record high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 46.16 points, or 0.25 per cent, to 18,538.12….
Rio de Janeiro, Sep 7 (IANS) A fifth of the 1.6 million tickets already sold for the 2016 Summer Paralympics, in which the opening ceremony will be held on Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,…
Miami, Sep 7 (IANS) US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday in Tampa that the campaign of her Republican rival, Donald Trump, is “one long insult to all those who have worn the…
Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer who spent three months in jail after being convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, registered as a sex offender in the US state…
Stockholm, Sep 7 (IANS) Two judges were on Tuesday asked to leave a panel that picks the Nobel prize for medicine in a scandal surrounding an Italian transplant surgeon. The decision to drop Harriet Wallberg…
United Nations, Sep 7 (IANS) The UN Security Council on Tuesday condemned the recent ballistic missile launches conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). On Monday, DPRK fired three ballistic missiles into eastern…
Ankara, Sep 7 (IANS) Two Turkish soldiers were killed and five others were injured on Tuesday when their tanks came under Islamic State (IS) attack in Syria, the Turkish military said. The attack occurred south…
Paris, Sep 7 (IANS) Isabelle Dinoire, the French woman who underwent the first partial face transplant in the world, died aged 49, the University Hospital of Amiens said on Tuesday. Dinoire, who had the transplant…