Suicide bomber kills 13 in Nigerian market: police
KANO: At least 13 people were killed Sunday and 65 others injured when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a busy mobile phone market in restive northeast Nigeria, police said. The attack in the town of Azare in Bauchi state came just as vendors were packing up for the day and is the... read more »
Nuclear deal with Iran would help Obama salvage his battered legacy
Washington: A nuclear deal with Iran would be a rare coup for a beleaguered President Barack Obama already seeking to shape his White House legacy, but analysts caution that renewing full ties will take longer. Iran and the United States have had no direct diplomatic relations since the 1979... read more »
Islamic State beheads American hostage Peter Kassig, Obama calls it pure ev...
Islamic State militants have beheaded another American hostage, Peter Kassig, issuing a video claiming the killing on Sunday and warning the United States they would kill other US citizens “on your streets.” US President Barack Obama confirmed the death of the aid worker in what he... read more »
David Cameron warns of looming global financial crisis
Prime Minister David Cameron has warned of an impending global financial crisis, saying that “red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy.” Writing in the Guardian, as he represented the UK in the G20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia, Cameron... read more »
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos meets PM Narendra Modi
Jeffrey P. Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an official statement said. Bezos, who is in India for a visit, had earlier termed India an... read more »
Who runs the militant group Islamic State?
Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group, has seized a third of Syria and large areas of Iraq and this year proclaimed a caliphate across the two countries in the heart of the Middle... read more »
British hostage Alan Henning beheaded in new ISIS video
An internet video released on Friday shows an Islamic State group fighter beheading British hostage Alan Henning, the fourth such killing carried out by the extremist group now targeted in... read more »
Modi kicks off Haryana campaign with sharp attack on Congress
Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off his campaign for the Haryana assembly elections with a blistering attack on the Bhupinder Hooda government at a rally in Karnal on Saturday. Urging... read more »
Patna stampede death toll rises to 33, most died of suffocation
Twenty one others who were injured were undergoing treatment at the Patna Medical College Hospital , and they were all out of danger, hospital superintendent Lakindra Prasad said. Prasad said the... read more »
