Ontario: All occupants managed to escape safely after a small plane crashed and landed on its roof in a field north of Barrie Sunday afternoon. The plane landed in a field near Highway 12 and Line 13 in Oro-Medonte Township, about 10 kilometres northwest of Orillia around 4:00 p.m, OntarioRead More

ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke by telephone today and agreed that Athens would present proposals to a eurozone summit the next day, a Greek government source said. “They agreed that the prime minister will present the proposals of the Greek government at theRead More

MADRID: Spain’s Economy Minister Luis de Guindos today said the euro currency was irreversible and Greece should remain part of it even after the Greeks rejected the conditions of a new rescue package on Sunday. De Guindos also said Spain was open to negotiating a third bailout deal for GreeceRead More

VIENNA: Foreign ministers from major powers began crunch talks in Vienna today seeking to seal a historic nuclear deal to end a 13-year standoff, one day before a final deadline, officials said. The United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany want Iran to sharply curb its nuclear programme toRead More

BERLIN: Germany insisted today that the ball was in Athens’s court if it wanted to stay in the eurozone, after Greece rejected creditors’ austerity demands in a weekend referendum. “It is up to Greece to make something of this. We are waiting to see which proposals the Greek government makesRead More

SYDNEY: Australia moved closer to recognising Aboriginal people in its constitution today after talks with indigenous leaders, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said as he urged an end to the ‘echoing silence’ in the founding document. Written more than a century ago, Australia’s constitution fails to mention Aboriginal or Torres StraitRead More

BANGKOK: Fourteen Thai students who were arrested after staging anti-coup rallies must face military court and will not be released beforehand, Thailand’s army chief said today, despite growing calls for charges to be dropped. The students were arrested last month after holding peaceful demonstrations in Bangkok calling for an endRead More

CAIRO: Egypt’s military launched air strikes and ground operations that killed 63 Islamist militants in North Sinai on Sunday, security sources said, as the country grapples with an increasingly ambitious insurgency based in the region. The Sinai has recently witnessed some of the heaviest fighting between security forces and IslamistRead More

New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Sunday assured Delhi University students of that the officials will enquire with the varsity over mass failure in Sociology paper, triggering widespread resentment among the students. “Have asked officers to enquire with DU,” she tweeted in response to the request of theRead More

Bhopal/New Delhi, Jul 6 : Troubles mounted for Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today over Vyapam scam after a woman trainee sub-inspector recruited by the state board was found dead in a lake, triggering demands from Congress for his immediate sacking and an impartial probe. In a relatedRead More