World

Washington: Republican front-runner Donald Trump is facing pressure from supporters and other admirers to take a more serious approach to his US...

London: The world's first life-saving gene therapy for children, developed by Italian scientists and GlaxoSmithKline, has been recommended for approval...

Istanbul: Hundreds of people including opposition politicians protested outside the trial of two prominent Turkish journalists facing life in prison on...

London/Athens: Smugglers based in Turkey are offering to take migrants to Italy instead of Greece where they are likely to be deported under a deal between...

London: More than 640 million people globally now weigh in as obese and the world has more overweight than underweight people, according to an analysis of...

Nairobi: A new road and rail project cutting through a nature reserve on the outskirts of Nairobi threatens wildlife, livestock and people, conservationists...

Geneva: North Korea will pursue its nuclear and ballistic missile programme in defiance of the United States and its allies, a top Pyongyang envoy told...

Berlin: Germany's longest-serving foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, a one-time refugee from the Communist East who helped unite his divided...

Manila: A woman abandoned in a central Philippine church when a baby has topped an opinion poll barely two months ahead of elections to succeed President...

Naypyitaw/Yangon: Myanmar's upper house of parliament approved a bill on Friday that gives Aung San Suu Kyi a powerful government role, despite...