North Sound: Australia cricket head coach Darren Lehmann says the selectors will wait until early next week to make up their minds about Australia’s playing 11 for the first Test against the West Indies in Dominica. The Aussies completed their only warm-up match of the tour here on Friday, aRead More

TEHRAN: Iran said today it would be “out of the question” for the UN atomic watchdog to question Iranian scientists and inspect military sites as part of a final nuclear agreement with world powers. “Interview with scientists is completely out of the question and so is inspection of military sites,”Read More

BALTIMORE: Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, a onetime Hillary Clinton loyalist, jumped into the US presidential race today, positioning himself as a more progressive alternative to the overwhelming Democratic frontrunner. Calling for a revival of the American dream, which he said was “hanging by a thread,” O’Malley declared “that IRead More

TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said today that the government aims to hold “free” parliamentary elections next year, the official IRNA news agency reported. “The success of the government is to hold free, healthy and competitive elections,” Rouhani said in a speech to governors and provincial governors. Iranians will voteRead More

BEIRUT: The Islamic State group demolished a prison in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra today, a monitor said, destroying what was for decades one of the regime’s most feared detention centres. The prison was “largely destroyed after IS planted explosives inside and around it” 10 days after the jihadistsRead More

MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA: Nigeria’s military today repelled a Boko Haram attack on the key northeastern city of Maiduguri, a day after President Muhammadu Buhari took office vowing to crush the group, witnesses and security sources said. The overnight attack on the Borno state capital saw rocket-propelled grenades fired into homes inRead More

Toronto, Environment Canada has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Toronto and much of the GTA. The agency says dangerous thunderstorms could form later today that might bring strong wind gusts, large hail and torrential rain. Potential storms could toss around objects, break windows and cause water levels to riseRead More

TORONTO — The Pan Am Games torch relay begins its 41-day journey through Ontario today, with torchbearer and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield helping to fan the flames of excitement ahead of the event. The flame will arrive on Toronto’s waterfront this afternoon, before being taken in a flotilla of canoesRead More

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government for the repromulgation of the Land Bill, adding that his party will fight for the rights of the farmers. The official twitter account of Gandhi`s office shared the Congress vice president`s thoughts on theRead More

NEW DELHI: It was expected but the re-promulgation of the land ordinance has once again come with more controversies. The Union Cabinet gave go-ahead to the land ordinance for the third time today, after it failed to get support for the Land Acquisition Bill in Parliament in the face ofRead More