Indian shuttlers had a disappointing outing at the Denmark Open Super Series Premier as Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth lost their respective quarter-final matches here Friday. While 2012 London Olympics bronze medallist Saina lost to World No.2 Shixian Wang of China 20-22, 15-21 in 45 minutes while two-timeRead More

Hong Kong, Riot police clashed violently with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong today as demonstrators reoccupied a camp mostly cleared the previous day, leading to multiple arrests and jeopardising talks aimed at ending a political stalemate. Police used batons and pepper spray against protesters shielding themselves with umbrellas on aRead More

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Ebola “czar” named by President Barack Obama on Friday to coordinate the U.S. response to the disease is expected to hold the position for five or six months, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. “The expectation is that this is not a permanent commitment, that weRead More

BOSTON – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed China’s top diplomat, State Councilor Yang Jiechi, to his Boston home on Friday for talks aimed at warming the often strained U.S.-China relationship ahead of a summit between their leaders next month. Kerry stood outside his imposing townhouse residence in Boston’sRead More

United Nations: Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Venezuela and Spain Thursday were elected as the new non-permanent members of the Security Council for a two years term by the UN General Assembly. These five countries replace retiring members Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, South Korea and Rwanda, xinhua reported. The newly elected membersRead More

TOKYO- Three Japanese ministers visited a controversial tokyo war shrine on Saturday, a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prompted angry responses from China and South Korea by sending a ritual offering there. They are the first Cabinet ministers to join a pilgrimage by 100 lawmakers to the spot condemnedRead More

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean man involved in planning an outdoor pop concert where 16 people were killed after falling through a ventilation grate was found dead Saturday in an apparent suicide, officials said, as doctors treated eight others facing life-threatening injuries from the disaster. The man, 37,Read More

GOMA, DR CONGO: Twenty-two people, most of them women and children, have been hacked and clubbed to death in the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, just days after a similar massacre, a government official said on Saturday. The attack on Friday evening in the town of Eringeti,Read More

JERUSALEM: Former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein had planned to kidnap the then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in retaliation to the Jewish state’s attack on Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981, a media report said. The sensational revelation has been made in a soon to be published memoir by Saddam’s attorney,Read More

Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has assured visiting External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj of a more pragmatic visa regime during a “very productive meeting” here. The senior Liberal Democrat leader indicated a review of rules around ICT (inter-company transfer) visas used largely by Indian IT professionals. “We constantly need to askRead More