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Trump presses border wall ahead of shutdown deadline

The Trump Administration has presented its most detailed request for the president's border wall proposal - asking Congress for almost $ 18 billion for a wa...

Macron: New 'Silk Road' can not be one-way

Macron said Europe should join the new silk road initiative but added a warning. "If they are roads, they can not be one-way". For his part, Hu called fo...

Tech Companies Prep Challenge To Net Neutrality Repeal

The rules will let internet service providers block online content, or charge websites for not slowing down delivery to consumers, rolling back the protections ...

White House calling Trump's TV, tweeting breaks "Executive Time"

This Tuesday, Swan reported , Trump has his first item of the day at 11 a.m., a meeting with White House chief of staff John Kelly. But as The Washington P...

Novak Djokovic delivers update on Australian Open participation

Nadal and Wawrinka are battling to overcome knee injuries ahead of the Open starting next Monday, while Andy Murray and Kei Nishikori have already pulled out ...

What Does Mueller Want With Ivanka Trump?

Mueller". In a newly-released tell-all book by Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House , Wolff quoted former White House chief strategist ...

Sudanese students stone police on third day of bread price protests

They said police formed a cordon to force more than 300 marchers onto the campus of Khartoum University, the largest in Sudan , and continued to fire tear gas ...

Syrian forces eye rebel-held province after defeat of IS

The explosion, reported by some to have been from a auto bomb, targeted the headquarters of a minor rebel faction in Idlib, according to the UK-based Syrian Obs...

Burning Iran tanker at risk of exploding

An Iranian oil tanker collided with a bulk freighter and caught fire off China's eastern coast, leaving its entire crew of 32 missing, a lot of them Iranians,...

NY: Extreme Cold Doesn't Deter No Pants Subway Ride

The event which began in 2002 was organised by the Improv Everywhere comedy collective with seven participants. One of the commuters who took the ride in NY ...

Evacuations ordered by noon Monday due to flood threat

Mandatory evacuations have been issued for areas below Southern California wildfire burn areas, as a winter storm threatens flash floods and strong winds . Th...

Ex-Iranian president Ahmadinejad arrested for 'inciting unrest'

Ahmadinejad had also reportedly said that some of the current Iranian leaders lived "detached from the problems and concerns of the people", and did not know...

Gov. Cuomo announces plan to build new state park in BK

Elected officials in high-tax Democratic-leaning states are looking at creative ways to prevent the new tax law from raising their residents' bills. "This could...

Another US Military Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing on Okinawa

Last month, a window from a United States military helicopter fell onto a school sports ground near the Futenma marine air base in Okinawa, but no one was injur...

East River Is Freezing Over, NYC's Pedestrian Fatalities Reached an All-Time Low

That's down from 148 the year before. The decrease in pedestrian deaths helped lower the number of traffic fatalities overall by 7 percent for the same period...

Ex Finmeccanica chief Orsi cleared (2)

He was at the helm of AgustaWestland when the deal was struck and was suspected of involvement in the payment of bribes. The case against Orsi and Spagnolini ...

VP Pence Set for Middle East Tour, After Postponement Last Month

Vice President Mike Pence will be in the Middle East later this month, his office announced Monday . Initially set for late December, the trip was pushed bac...

Republicans urge investigation into Trump dossier author

Chuck Grassley , who chairs the committee, said the decision to refer the case for criminal investigation had not been taken lightly, but he felt he needed to h...

Oklahoma high school addresses social media threat that caused concern

There is no threat against Morgantown High School, local police confirmed late Sunday night. The message "spread like wildfire" through the community Sunday n...

J&K: Two militants killed in gunfight in Budgam

The identity of the slain militant is being ascertained. Another eyewitness said that the house where the militant had taken shelter was blasted to rubble by ...

Palestinian envoy to Pakistan to reinstated

The Palestinian Authority had described as "unintended mistake", but "not justified" the presence of its ambassador to Pakistan at an event also attended by M...

Solo Trailer Is Close Says Ron Howard

The marketing campaign on Solo: A Star Wars Story has always been something of an enigma for fans - since the movie comes out in five months, some anxious fan...

Charges Against Bundys in Ranch Standoff Case Are Dismissed

Rancher Cliven Bundy was released from custody Monday after a federal judge dismissed a case against him stemming from an armed standoff with federal authoritie...

Ban on mass incarceration book lifted at 2 jails

An acclaimed book about racial bias in the USA prison system has been unconstitutionally banned in a pair of New Jersey correctional facilities, the America...

Romney Treated for Prostate Cancer

Romney, 70, has been back in the headlines recently amid speculation that he may run for Senate in Utah replacing Sen. Romney spoke to President Donald Trump ...

Former housing minister named Conservative Party chairman

Speculation remained rife at Westminster that several big names were on their way out of the Cabinet, with Education Secretary Justine Greening and the Leader o...

Pompeo: North Korea's Talks With South Won't Change Nuclear Stance

US President Donald Trump holds a press conference at Camp David on January 6. The latest in a series of administration officials downplaying what South Korea...

Natural disasters caused record $306 billion in damage to United States in 2017

The previous record year for $1 billion disasters was 2005, the year of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, with an inflation-adjusted $214.8 billion cost. "While we...

CAT 2017 exam results declared

Similar to last year, 20 candidates have scored an overall 100 percentile in CAT 2017 , however, the profile of these candidates were different this year as co...

China agrees to stop road construction work, India returns seized equipment

On December 28, a joint team of the Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police had stopped them and sent them back. India and China averted a Doklam-like face-...

Former Egyptian Prime Minister Shafiq Retreats From Running in 2018 Presidential Elections

It will also accept official complaints on 7 February and rule on them on 9 February. The NEC said on Monday that a run-off is set for between April 24 to Apr...

People Raise Almost $200K To Help Roy Moore Accuser Rebuild Burned Home

Roy Moore accuser Tina Johnson's home in Gadsden, Ala., is pictured after a house fire on January 3, 2018. While firefighters rushed to the scene to try and put...

Pence to head to Middle East late next week

A statement by the State Information Service said: " Egypt's positions on global issues are not derived from alleged leaks from an anonymous source". At the t...

We are in shock, says father of AMU scholar turned militant

Earlier in the day, the Uttar Pradesh Police had conducted raids at the university in search of Wani, who went missing a few days back. Aligarh SSP Rajesh Pan...

Donald Trump 'starts his official work day at 11am', leaked schedules reveal

The president's mornings, from 8 a.m. 11 a.m., are blocked off for something called "Executive Time" in the Oval Office - which apparently consists of Trump w...