World

Venezuela is again becoming a pawn in the international power game with the incumbent socialist regime of President Nicolas Maduro facing a coup from his challenger, “interim president” Juan Guaido,...

London: Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, reports the BBC. Assange took refuge in the embassy seven years ago to avoid extradition to...

Ride-hailing aggregator Ola on Tuesday expanded operations to Liverpool in UK. What's interesting is that the company has introduced autorickshaws in its fleet. The 3-wheeler autorickshaws are manufactured by Bajaj...

One among the 7,000 Yazidi women, who were abducted from their villages by the Islamic State militants, Nadia Murad, the noble price prize winner for 2018, is now the face...

Stockholm: Dr James P Allison, chair of the department of immunology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and Dr Tasuku Honjo, distinguished professor at the Kyoto University Institute for...

Facebook, the world's most-popular social media platform had its worst security breach till date this month. The breach could have given hackers access to around 50 million accounts, according to the...

London: Learning difficulties such as autism can be challenging for parents as well as the child, specially in a high-pressure environment. While most schools fail to acknowledge the issue, 11-year-old...

Former secretary general of the United Nations Kofi Annan died in the early hours of Saturday in Switzerland after a short illness, according to a statement issued by his family. He was 80....