World

London: Paul Beatty was on Tuesday named as the first American to win the prestigious Man Booker fiction prize, for "The Sellout", a biting satire...

New Delhi: The implementation of 'No Detention' policy, which does not allow any student to be failed till class VIII, may now be left to the...

Berlin: German police on Tuesday stormed an accommodation facility for refugees and 12 homes around the country that were believed to house people suspected...

Cairo: Visitors to a bookshop in Cairo are being invited into a dark, soundproof room to scream at the top of their lungs in an effort to relieve their...

Mumbai: Ratan Tata on Tuesday followed up the sacking of Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry by inducting two new directors into the board of the holding...

New Delhi: Natural resources in forests should not be exploited at the cost of tribals living there, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said, favouring...

Ottawa: A Canadian nurse was charged on Tuesday with using drugs to murder eight elderly patients at two long-term care facilities, a highly unusual case in...

Srinagar: BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday created ripples as he led a five-member delegation of civil society members to meet separatist leaders Syed...

Calais (France): French workers began demolishing the "Jungle" shanty town in Calais on Tuesday, wielding sledgehammers to tear down makeshift...

East of Mosul/Baghdad: An elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its week-long advance on Mosul as it approached the city's eastern edge on Tuesday,...