NEW DELHI: Amid global speculation on what exactly caused Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 to jump radar contact and disappear, an ugly suspicion has taken roots in China that it could be the handiwork of Uighur terrorists. If this turns out to be correct, it would be the biggest attack by Uighurs

Washington:  Astronomers have spotted the largest yellow star ever observed in our galaxy and 1,300 times larger than the sun. The yellow hypergiant star HR 5171 A is also in the top-10 of the largest stars known and about one million times brighter than the sun, Olivier Chesneau, whose team made

NEW YORK: A building in New York City's East Harlem area collapsed today following an explosion with reports of people trapped in the rubble. The building collapsed this morning and authorities said they were responding to reports of people trapped in the rubble, according to fire officials. W

Sepang, Malaysia:  The mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 deepened on Monday when a sweeping search failed to find any sign of the jetliner near its last known location, leaving experts to puzzle over how a Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard could have vanished without a trace. The search w

KUALA LUMPUR/PHU QUOC ISLAND, VIETNAM: The disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner is an "unprecedented mystery", the country's civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. Dozens of ships and

Moscow:  Leaders of both houses of Russia's parliament said on Friday they would support a vote by Crimea to break away from Ukraine and become a new region of the Russian Federation, the first public signal that the Kremlin was backing the secessionist move that Ukraine, the United States and other

Houston:  A 21-year-old Indian-origin student has mysteriously disappeared while vacationing with friends in the US state of Florida, even as the search was on for an Indian-American who went missing in New York. Reny Jose, a mechanical engineering major and a member of Martel College at Rice Uni

Washington:  An asteroid the size of a football field is about to make a close pass by Earth but is not expected to hit or cause any damage, NASA said on Wednesday. Coined 2014 DX110, the asteroid will be part of a rare class of objects that comes nearer than the moon, and will shave by at around

WASHINGTON: Representatives of US-led Nato and Russia have agreed to meet to discuss the Ukraine issue in signs that the Cold War opponents are stepping back after drawing red lines on how far the other will tolerate intrusion into a rival's sphere of influence. The Obama administration rolled ou

PEREVALNE (UKRAINE): Warning that it was "on the brink of disaster," Ukraine put its military on high alert Sunday and appealed for international help to avoid what it feared was the possibility of a wider invasion by Russia. Outrage over Russia's military moves mounted in world capitals, with US

LONDON: A man of Indian origin has been arrested by the police in UK on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offences. Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee who was born in Birmingham to a family of Indian descent is among four people who were arrested by the West Midlands police on Tuesday. Be

Israel has killed dozens of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank over the past three years showing a "callous disregard for human life," a report by Amnesty International said on Thursday. Israel responded by saying the London-based rights group did not take into account the increasing number o

Kabul:  Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has stood firm on his demand that the US and Pakistan re-start the peace process with the Taliban for a post-2014 troop deal to be signed. The President was responding to a warning from US President Barack Obama that he was planning for a possible 'Zero-Opt

Cairo:  Egypt's government has resigned, the prime minister said on Monday, paving the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his candidacy for president of a strategic U.S. ally gripped by political strife. "(The government) made every effort to get Egypt out of the nar

Muslims all over the world have opposed Denmark’s move to ban the slaughter of animals in an Islamic (halal) way and called upon their governments to stop importing Danish meat as long as the Scandinavian country refuses to respect their religious teachings. Fouad Tawfik, an Islamic scholar, said t

Asadabad: The Taliban stormed an Afghan army outpost in the eastern Kunar province bordering Pakistan early today, killing 20 soldiers and kidnapping seven, an official said. The volatile border area is dominated by Taliban who often use improvised explosive devices to target soldiers, but today's a

UNITED NATIONS: The UN security council united for the first time on a resolution on Syria's humanitarian crisis Saturday, demanding that President Bashar Assad's government and the opposition provide immediate access everywhere in the country to deliver aid to millions of people in desperate need.

WhatsApp’s 450 million worldwide users were unable to access the smartphone free-messaging service for several hours on Saturday, three days after Facebook declared it was lavishing up to $19 billion on it. “Sorry we currently experiencing server issues. We hope to be back up and recovered shortl