--> India is among five countries where projects are underway to develop vaccines to fight the Zika virus currently circulating in 38 countries. The World Health Organization's Director-General...
In the wake of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels, Adele offered a moving tribute to the victims. During the final night of her six-show London residency, the pop star asked the...
Thirty-seven people have been arrested in eastern China over a huge vaccine scandal, state media report. It comes after police in Shandong announced last month they had arrested a mother and her...
Chinese social media users have taken to popular microblog Sina Weibo to mock media coverage of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's visit, since Facebook is blocked in China. Whilst outlets praised Mr...
Lost in Monday’s Apple Inc. announcement concerning a new iPhone and iPad was a small item introducing the world to “Liam,” the company’s new robotic system designed to disassemble iPhones and recover...
TORONTO (AP) -- Knocking over a grandmother while rushing to the defense of his brother, who was insulting spectators in the City Council chamber. Threatening "murder" in a profane, incoherent rant...
PARIS (Reuters) - French PresidentFrancois Hollande called an emergency meeting of senior government ministers on Tuesday after a series of explosions in...
Raymond Moore has resigned as BNP Paribas Open tournament director after his comments that women's tennis "rides on the coattails" of the men's game. Moore said ahead of Sunday's women's final at...
--> Papua New Guinea is the most difficult and expensive place in the world to access clean water, forcing the poor to spend more than half their income on this essential resource, a charity said on...
As this blog has noted before, Donald Trump has reveled in threatening litigation against people who write negative stuff about him. He rails against negative media coverage at every turn, and he has...
Ed Miliband is to set out his case for why the UK should stay in the EU, in his first major intervention in the referendum debate. The former Labour leader will argue that social justice and...
Analysts at Goldman Sachs say banks, builders, property firms and home improvement businesses would be the worst-hit UK companies if Britain voted to leave the European Union, The Guardian reports. In...
Britain's Prince Harry stayed at the village home of a former Nepalese Gurkha soldier who had served in the British army Monday as the prince continues his tour of the Himalayan nation, The Associated...
When Mumbai resident Omkar Divekar began his railway journey all around India, little did he know that his trip would soon be followed closely by a lot of people on Twitter, according to Mashable....
Aviation officials say extracting data from the black boxes of a FlyDubai plane that crashed in southern Russia early Saturday morning will be difficult, blaming the ferocity of the crash, the Belfast...
The USS Harftord surfaces at the Arctic circle for ICEX 2016. There is no need to highlight the strategic importance of submarines. The type of missions they can carry out is quite vast: they can...