St Louis: US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has said the US was not at “war with Islam”. The Democratic nominee also accused her rival Donald Trump of making statements that were a “gift to the ISIS”.  In the second presidential debate, Clinton used the phrase “violent jihadist terrorists”

Hurricane Matthew: The storm was likely to remain a Category 4 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity as it approached the United States. Hurricane Matthew pelted Florida with heavy rains as the deadly storm steamed ever closer to the coast with potentially catastrophic winds

Stockholm, 4 Oct. 2016: British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for revealing the secrets of exotic matter such as superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with no loss to resistance. The Roy

Montreal ,23 September 2016(IANS ): A Muslim woman in Canada, who was denied a court appearance because of her hijab, sought legal clarification on the rights of Quebecers, who want access to justice while wearing religious attire. Rania El-Alloul's lawyer appeared in Quebec Superior Court on Thu

But he won’t reveal it as he doesn’t want the ‘enemy’ to know it; Hillary vows to attack IS from air, ground and online. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump escaped yet again without offering any details of his foreign policy and national security ideas, with his blustering, filibust

Vientiane: US President Barack Obama on Thursday called Donald Trump “wacky” and “uninformed” after the Republican candidate said Russia’s President Putin was a better leader. Speaking in Laos, according to BBC, Obama said that every time Trump spoke it became clearer that the Republican contende

Washington: Abid R. Qureshi, has been nominated today by President Obama for serving as a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Mr. Qureshi is the first American Muslim to be nominated to serve on the federal judiciary. Farhana Khera, former counsel to the U

The east coast of New Zealand was hit by a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake on Thursday, generating a small tsunami, but officials said there was no significant damage or injuries. A swarm of aftershocks, several of nearly 6.0 magnitude, rocked the region for many hours after the initial jolt as

Ramallah: Israel companies have approved plans to organise a beer festival on the grounds of the historic Islamic cemetery of Maaman Allah in occupied Jerusalem on this week. The Maaman Allah cemetery  is believed to date back to the 7th century, and it houses the remains of many important figure

ANKARA: A Kurdish militant suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a checkpoint near a police station in southeast Turkey on Friday, killing at least 11 police officers and wounding 78 other people, the prime minister said. The attack struck the checkpoint 50 meters (yards) from a ma

Minneapolis: A 21 year old father has been charged with second-degree murder after he admitted to punching his 4-month old daughter to death for making ‘baby noises.’ The accused identified as Cory Morris was arrested on Saturday evening after he called 911 and confessed to hitting baby 22 times

SYDNEY: MH370 plunged into the ocean at high speed — up to 20,000 feet a minute — reinforcing analysis that the missing Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in the current search zone, a report said on Tuesday. The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 peop

Tehran: Iran said Thursday it had hanged 20 Sunni prisoners, in one of the Islamic republic’s biggest mass executions in recent years. The men, who were hanged on Tuesday, were accused of carrying out a string of attacks against civilians and religious leaders in Iran’s western Kurdish region, st

Japan on Saturday marked the 71st anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima that led to the end of World War Two. About 50,000 people attended a ceremony at Hiroshima's Peace Park near the bomb's epicenter. Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on world leaders to visit the site, like U.S. Pre

Three men in Florida have been arrested on charges of conspiring to join the terror group Islamic State (IS). The three suspects, all residents of the Palm Beach County, were charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support and resources to IS, according to a complaint filed in

Cleveland, July 20 Thirteen months after launching an improbable bid for the White House, Donald Trump captured the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, having vanquished 16 party rivals, warred with much of its establishment and provoked controversy at every turn. His eldest chil

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said Ankara has demanded return of eight coup attempter soldiers , who landed on Alexandroupolis in Greece and that Athens accepted the former's request. "The Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias told me on the phone that they will return the eight tr

Ulaanbaatar, July 14 (ANI): Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Thursday evening reachedUlaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. He was received by Head of Presidential Admin, Mongolia at the airport. Vice-President Ansari is leading the India delegation for two-day 11th Asia Europe Meeting-