Islamabad, Sep 17 (IANS) Taliban group Jamaat ul Ahrar (JuA) claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in a mosque in Pakistan as the death toll touched 28. In a statement released on Friday midnight it…
Gaza, Sep 17 (IANS) Fathi Hammad, one of Hamas movement’s top leaders in the Gaza Strip, on Saturday slammed the decision of the US State Department to include him in the list of global terrorists….
New York, Sep 17 (IANS) Over two million people live streamed NFL’s Thursday Night Football on Twitter, compared to 48 million who watched it on TV. “For the Thursday Night Football game alone, Twitter reached…
New York, Sep 17 (IANS) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has joined a growing list of celebrities and other public figures rooting for a presidential pardon for whistleblower Edward Snowden. #PardonSnowden, Dorsey tweeted on Twitter. The…
London, Sep 17 (IANS) Six years after the language in Enid Blytons Famous Five books was updated in an attempt to make them appeal more to modern children, the publisher has decided to abandon the…
Washington, Sep 17 (IANS) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is facing criticism after appearing to hint at the assassination of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for a second time, media reports said. Trump on Friday…
Miami, Sep 17 (IANS) The zone of active transmission of Zika virus in Miami Beach has tripled to now encompass two-thirds of the seaside city, a media report said. Governor Rick Scott made the expansion…
Beijing, Sep 17 (IANS) China’s newest space laboratory, Tiangong II, will provide more comfort upgrades to astronauts living aboard than its predecessor, Tiangong I, the spacecraft’s designers said. Zhu Zongpeng, chief designer of Tiangong II…
Washington, Sep 17 (IANS) The US has agreed to be a partner country in the 8th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit to be held from January 10 to 13 next year in Gandhinagar. “Assistant Secretary of…
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari called on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ahead of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit being hosted by the South American nation. “Warmer ties with Venezuela. VP…
New York, Sep 17 (IANS) Medication-resistant bacteria are making it more difficult to treat a common but severe kidney infection, a study has found. Pyelonephritis — infection of the kidney usually caused by E. coli…
New York, Sep 17 (IANS) A team of researchers has discovered a new mechanism for a bacterial toxin to inhibit inflammation in a commonly inherited autoinflammatory disease. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), also known as Armenian…
By Arun Kumar Washington, Sep 17 (IANS) Hillary Clinton thought she would borrow a leaf from Donald Trump’s book. Instead, she reached for a dictionary of insults and flung “half” of her presidential rival’s supporters…
New York, Sep 17 (IANS) A computer programme developed by a team of researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist has outperformed physicians in diagnosing brain cancer. The programme was nearly twice as accurate as two…
London, Sep 17 (IANS) The memory of a heart attack gets stored in genes through epigenetic changes — chemical modifications of DNA that turns our genes on or off, a study has found. Cardiovascular diseases…
Manila, Sep 17 (IANS) Thousands of Philippine Coast Guard personnel on Saturday cleaned up the country’s littered shores as part of International Coastal Cleanup Day. Coast Guard officials said some 5,000 staff and auxiliary members…
Beijing, Sep 17 (IANS) China’s meteorological authority issued a yellow alert for typhoon Malakas on Saturday, forecasting strong winds and heavy rain. Malakas, the 16th typhoon in 2016, was observed 135 km off Taiwan’s east…
New York, Sep 17 (IANS) Using NASA’s Hubble space telescope, astronomers have captured the sharpest, most detailed observations of a comet breaking apart 108 million kilometres from Earth. In a series of images taken over…
Beijing, Sep 17 (IANS) Typhoon Meranti has left at least 14 persons dead and another 14 missing in China, authorities reported on Saturday. Meranti, the world’s strongest typhoon this year, arrived in Xiamen province early…
Washington, Sep 17 (IANS) The US Air Force said that it has grounded 10 of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, just over a month after they were declared “combat ready”. The decision affecting the most…