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Polls open in United Kingdom election after campaign marred by attacks

The pound plunged at 10pm after exit polls pointed towards a hung parliament, down over 1.5 per cent to 1.27 USA dollars after it emerged that the Tories would ...

Kazakhstan is biggest supplier of Uranium to India: MEA

Modi and Xi are expected to meet at the G20 summit after Astana , which is set to be held next month in Hamburg, Germany followed by BRICS (Brazil, Russia, In...

Britons cast ballots in election marred by terror attacks

If the exit poll is correct and neither party wins an overall majority, Corbyn could attempt to form a government with smaller parties that also strongly oppose...

Arizona State's Ewen sets new college record in the hammer

Daina Harper finished sixth in the 400-meter semifinal. Two weeks prior she ran a 12.94 which would have easily qualified her on Thursday. She was 14th overall....

Australia police raid homes 4 days after deadly siege

Victoria Police and their partners within the Joint Counter Terrorism Team are conducting a police operation in the northern suburbs this morning . The men ar...

You must be joking! All Blacks coach scoffs at Super jibe

Steve Hansen named an experienced New Zealand squad for those three forthcoming Tests against the Lions earlier on Thursday, with uncapped pair Ngani Laumap...

USA holds first successful test interception of an ICBM

MDA conducted the test Tuesday in which the BMDS' ground-based midcourse defense platform helped guide a land-based interceptor with an exoatmospheric kill v...

Aid group anxious Qatar dispute may affect Gaza

Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates , Bahrain and Egypt , have cut ties with Qatar and moved to isolate the Gulf nation, accusing it of harbor...

Iran supreme leader: Attacks fuel hatred toward US, Saudis

Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday called the White House statement about the double attack on Tehran that killed 13 people " repugnant " after it linked th...

Militants overrun military base, allegedly kill 61 soldiers, take over town

Estimates from the Somali military range as low as 20 casualties , while al-Shabaab itself claims 61 kills through its media arm, the Shahada News Agency. T...

Qatar blames current crisis on fake news inserted by hackers

Trump has tweeted his support for the move to isolate Qatar underlining that the USA was in the know of the plans. "We are a platform for peace", he told report...

Uttar Pradesh may face Mandsaur-like situation, warn farmer bodies

As hundreds of policemen in riot gear patrolled the streets, the state government transferred the collector and the superintendent of police of Mandsaur on Thur...

House Democrats launch longshot bid to impeach Trump

But the efforts to impeach the president don't appear likely to be successful given the current makeup of Congress . On June 6, Green announced in a statemen...

Trump's personal lawyer to file complaint after Comey testimony , source says

During one White House dinner, Comey recalled that the president asked him for "loyalty" and to lay off his former national security adviser Michael Flyn...

So, Let's Talk About That James Comey Hearing

Now, to be clear, we know that President Trump had stewed about Comey over the weekend of the 6th and 7th and reportedly chose to fire Comey over the weekend....

China says Pakistan told it kidnapped teachers are probably dead

The jihadist group made the claim in a brief Arabic message carried by the group's Amaq news agency. So far the reports have not been confirmed by Pakistani...

Qatar hit by ratings downgrade over blockade crisis

He also rejected "a military solution as an option" to resolving the crisis, and said Qatar could survive "forever" despite the measures taken against it. Acces...

LeBron not faulting Warriors for building super team

Right now those really good things make a Cleveland victory very unlikely. Iguodala's block this time. Is there one in National Basketball Association history...

Meet Preet Gill, UK's first female Sikh MP who won from Edgbaston

Speaking to the media on his win, Dhesi said he was "humbled' and wishes to serve the town where he was born and raised". Bhai Amrik Singh, chair of the Sikh ...

Spanish man who fought off London attacker confirmed dead

She told Britain's Press Association that dental comparisons, fingerprints and DNA were part of the process along with tattoos, scars, clothing and jewellery, w...

Exit poll points to hung parliament in United Kingdom elections

Nevertheless, May's plans still rely heavily on being able to pass legislation through parliament. The U-turn over a Tory manifesto commitment to reform socia...

United Kingdom election: Theresa May could lose parliamentary majority, exit poll shows

If confirmed, the result will be humiliating for May, who called a snap election in the hope of increasing her majority and strengthening Britain's hand in exit...

Modi only interested in waiving loans of rich: Rahul

Surging crowds of Congress supporters followed him, shouting slogans like "Jai Jawaan, Jai Kisaan" and "Rahul Gandhi zindabad". The agitating farmers resorted...

Polls open in UK election after campaign marred by attacks

They rallied slightly when the first two constituencies to report results revealed vote shares that were more favourable to the Tories than the exit poll sugges...

What the Fuzz? Unpacking the folksy rhetoric of the Comey testimony

While today's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing with ex-FBI director James Comey was a blockbuster start, committee chair Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, ...

French president says 8th death confirmed after London attacks

CCTV video has emerged of police firing at the London Bridge attackers. "On Tuesday, 6 June at approximately 19:44hours the body of a man was recovered fr...

Iran minister calls Trump's condolences for attacks 'repugnant'

Reza Seifollahi, an official in the country's Supreme National Security Council, was quoted by the independent Shargh daily as saying that the perpetrators of t...

British police arrest man in London Bridge attack investigation

London Metropolitan Police have identified two of the three attackers involved in Saturday's violent rampage on and around London Bridge , releasing photo...

UAE ruling family member: Qatar now questioning its leaders

They alleged Qatar funds terror groups and has a worryingly close relationship with Iran , a nation with which it shares its vast offshore natural gas field. W...

Qatar's Al-Jazeera says battling cyber attack

Pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera was combating a large-scale cyber attack on its media platform, but all its entities remained operational, a company s...