New York, June 14 (IANS) US-based technology giant Apple at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on Monday announced Swift Playgrounds for iPad that would allow users to play with Swift code…
Lyon (France), June 14 (IANS) Italy gave their campaign in the Euro Cup football tournament a superb start with a dominant 2-0 win over Belgium here on Monday. Emanuele Giaccherini (32nd minute) put the four-time…
Rome, June 14 (IANS/AKI) Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will undergo a four-hour operation on Tuesday to replace a defective aortic valve, Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital announced on Monday. The operation will begin at…
Rome, June 14 (IANS/AKI) The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group’s alleged leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an air raid in Syria by the US-led coalition, reports said on Monday. Baghdadi died in…
Dubai, June 14 (IANS) A Federal Supreme State Security Court in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday issued jail sentences for 19 members of the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood. The UAE…
Paris, June 14 (IANS) Sweden were held to a 1-1 draw by Republic of Ireland in a Group E encounter of the Euro football championship at the Stade de France here on Monday. Midfielder Wes…
By Francis Kokutse Accra (Ghana), June 13 (IANS) President Pranab Muhkherjee on Monday said the United Nations should be reformed to keep pace with world developments and pitched for India’s candidature for permanent seat on…
Congress leader Anand Sharma addresses. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) The Congress on Monday demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for what it said was “misleading the country” that the recent…
Washington, June 13 (IANS) US presidential candidate Donald J. Trump on Monday accused US President Barack Obama and his rival Hillary Clinton of failing to understand the nature of the terrorist threat facing the country,…
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella. (File Photo: IANS) San Francisco, June 13 (IANS) Microsoft Corp on Monday said it is acquiring professional networking website LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in an all-cash deal, billed as…
Washington, June 13 (IANS) US President Barack Obama on Monday said it appeared that the gunman in the Orlando massacre had been inspired by extremist information he found on the internet, but that there was…
(160612) — ORLANDO, June 12, 2016 (Xinhua) — Photo provided by Orlando Police Department shows Orlando Police Chief John Mina (C) answers the media’s questions about the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, the United…
WASHINGTON D.C., U.S. President Barack Obama. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu/IANS) Washington, June 13 (IANS) US President Barack Obama on Monday called the Florida shooting that claimed 50 lives, including that of the shooter, as “home-grown extremism” that…
By Mahendra Ved Accra (Ghana), June 13 ( IANS) The West African nation Ghana is looking to India for a civil nuclear route to augment and diversify its energy requirements and to the Indian railways…
New Delhi/Geneva, June 13 (IANS) Voluntary, unpaid blood donations must be increased rapidly in more than half the worlds countries in order to ensure a reliable supply of safe blood for patients whose lives depend…
Islamabad, June 13 (IANS) The transgender community in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province took to the streets on Monday to protest a murder attempt on a community member who was shot multiple times for refusing the…
Islamabad, June 13 (IANS) Pakistan on Monday summoned the Afghan envoy to lodge a protest against cross-border shelling by Afghan troops that injured at least two soldiers and nine civilians, a foreign ministry statement said….
Orlando, June 13 (IANS) Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen was not the first employee of British security giant G4S to go on a rampage. Sunday morning’s attack in Florida has raised questions over the quality…
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) India and Pakistan, the two South Asian nuclear giants, are increasing their nuclear weapon stockpiles and missile delivery capabilities even as across the world the reduction in nuclear weapons remains…
Rome, June 13 (IANS) Pope Francis on Monday criticised as a “paradox” the multiple bureaucratic, political and economic obstacles to the distribution of food aid to the hungry while weapons flow freely around the world….