World

Sydney: Severe storms and thousands of lightning strikes knocked out power to the entire state of South Australia on Wednesday, authorities said, leading to...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is betting that close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia's economic woes and regional concerns...

Bangkok: Thailand ruled out on Wednesday Zika as the cause of two cases of microcephaly but is investigating two other cases that could be the first linked...

Manila: The FBI is negotiating with a former branch manager of a Philippines bank for information relating to $81 million that she handled after it was...

Jalalabad (Afghanistan): A suspected US drone strike against IS militant group in Afghanistan killed at least 21 people on Wednesday, most of them militants...

Occupied Jerusalem: Former Israeli president and elder statesman Shimon Peres, a joint winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, died in hospital on Wednesday...

Oslo: A Norwegian appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden against the Norwegian government, upholding...

Cairo: Egyptian authorities have arrested the owner and crew members of a boat that sank last week carrying hundreds of migrants, the security chief of...

Beirut: A bakery and major hospital were hit in bombardments of rebel-held eastern Aleppo early on Wednesday, residents said, as Syrian government forces...

Mumbai: Lauding the progress achieved so far on goods and services tax (GST) implementation, the Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday exuded...