A blast near a chemical plant in Zhangjiakou city in China’s northern Hebei province early on Wednesday killed 22 people and injured at least 22 others, the local government said. A video of the blast scene shared by state media showed billowing black smoke and flames, while photographs showed ro

SYDNEY: Torrential rain triggered flash flooding that turned streets into rivers in Sydney, Australia's biggest city, on Wednesday, causing major disruptions to the morning commute. A spokesman for Ausgrid, the nation's biggest electricity network, said the storm had so far left 8,100 homes without

Authorities in Myanmar seized a boat carrying 93 Rohingya fleeing displacement camps in western Rakhine state in hopes to reach Malaysia, an official said on Tuesday. The vessel was the third bound for Malaysia stopped in Myanmar's waters since monsoon rains began to subside last month, bringing

US President Donald Trump has expressed strong support for India in its fight against terrorism as the country remembers the terror attacks in Mumbai 10 years ago that left over 160 dead and hundreds injured. "On the ten-year anniversary of the Mumbai terror attack, the U.S. stands with the peopl

West Palm Beach (Florida): President Donald Trump congratulated himself for falling oil prices . He chided the Federal Reserve over interest rates . He claimed Central American countries are trying to dump "certain people" into the United States. Trump's Florida holiday stay was ending Sunday wit

  New Delhi: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has proposed changes in the popular H-1B visa lottery system, through which they select 85,000 applications every year out of a larger pool of H-1B applications, the Times of India reported. From this April, which is the fil

A cargo ship carrying 14 crew members sunk in waters off Bali coast in Indonesia, rescuers said they were searching for seven crew members on Sunday. KM Multi Prima One cargo ship heading to Waingapu town of East Nusa Tenggara province capsized in Bali Gulf after leaving waters off Surabaya, head

Pressure continues to mount over allegations of corruption in the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France from both within and outside the country. According to French news portal Mediapart, a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) has approached the National Financial Prosecutor’s offi

Wellington: A destructive earthquake that struck New Zealand two years ago has left its two main islands edging towards each other, and one city sinking, according to scientists. But the margins are minimal with the gap between the North and South islands narrowing a mere 35 centimetres (13 and a

Peshawar: At least seven persons were killed in an exchange of fire between two groups of people following a dispute over a cricket match among children in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities said on Saturday. The incident happened at a police post in Abbottabad district w

PESHAWAR: At least 31 people including three Sikhs were killed and more than 40 others injured when a powerful bomb blast ripped through a busy market outside a religious seminary in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, officials said. The explosive material was planted in a

India on Friday lodged a “strong protest” with Pakistan after two officials of the Indian high commission in Islamabad were reportedly humiliated and barred from entering gurdwaras in the neighbouring country. “India lodges strong protest with Pakistan government that despite being granted prior

Melbourne: President Ram Nath Kovind, the first Indian head of state to visit Australia, held talks with Prime minister Scott Morrison to step-up bilateral strategic ties as the two countries signed five agreements Thursday to boost investments and enhance cooperation. Kovind arrived in Sydney on We

Chinese state media report 5 dead, 18 injured when car struck crowd of children outside school in northeastern city on Thursday. The driver was taken into custody after the crash around noon in the coastal city of Huludao in Liaoning province, state broadcaster CCTV said. Several children were

Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Tuesday summoned US’ top diplomat in Islamabad to protest against President Donald Trump’s allegation that the country harboured al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and was supporting Afghan Taliban insurgents despite receiving billions of dollars in American aid. “The

A man was killed on the runway at Moscow’s largest airport when he was hit by a plane that was taking off, Russian investigators said Wednesday. Russian news agencies quoted sources as saying the man was on a stopover in Moscow and had earlier picked a fight on board his flight from Spain. The

Islamabad: The International Monetary Fund has demanded Pakistan provide all details of China's financial support to the cash-strapped country to avail a bailout package from it, according to media reports. The International Monetary Fund mission is in Pakistan and holding talks with officials ov

BEIJING: China launched a new space environment research satellite and four nanosatellites on a single rocket today. The satellites were carried by the Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 7.40 am, news agency Xinhua reported. The satellites have successfully entered t