Gas explosions kill 24, injure 271 in Taiwan
At least 24 people were killed and 271 others injured when several underground gas explosions ripped through Taiwan’s second-largest city overnight, hurling concrete through the air and blasting long trenches in the streets, authorities said on Friday. The series of explosions about midnight on... read more »
10 killed in Bangladesh train-bus collision
At least 10 people were killed and 50 injured on Friday when a train collided with a bus at a railway crossing in Bangladesh’s Jhenaidah district. A railway official said the train smashed the crowded bus, which was carrying a groom’s family and friends back from a... read more »
Gary McKinnon is warned off seeing sick father in Scotland: Fears SNP could...
Gary McKinnon has been warned not to visit his sick father in Scotland in case the Nationalist government allows a revived American bid to extradite him. The Asperger’s sufferer was saved by a Daily Mail campaign in 2012 from previous attempts to take him to the United States for trial on hacking... read more »
Meriam Ibrahim arrives in US
A Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence arrived on Thursday in the United States, where she was welcomed first by the mayor of Philadelphia as a “world freedom fighter” and later by cheering supporters waving US flags in New Hampshire. Meriam... read more »
PM Modi likely to visit U.S. in September
The confirmation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States means two things: that Mr. Modi is keen to extend his summit-level approach to bilateral ties past the... read more »
Google Search Will Show Badaun-Type Incidents in Other Places Too: Akhilesh Yadav
New Delhi – Under intense criticism over Badaun gang-rape and murder incident, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said that a Google search would show such crimes... read more »
Sumitra Mahajan Likely To Be Next Lok Sabha Speaker, Parliament To Be Adjourned Today
New Delhi: Sumitra Mahajan, an eight-time BJP member of Parliament from Indore, is set to take over as the next Speaker of the Lok Sabha, BJP sources confirmed today. The new Speaker will... read more »
Underwater sound examined for links to missing jet
A team of Australian researchers looking into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 released data on Wednesday about an unusual underwater sound recorded around the time the... read more »
AIADMK not to join NDA
While ruling out the entry of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam into the National Democratic Alliance, party chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday kept the door open... read more »
