World

Rome: Denmark overtook Switzerland as the world's happiest place, according to a report on Wednesday that urged nations regardless of wealth to tackle...

London: Some 650 million people, or one in 10 of the world's population, do not have access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases...

London: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join the ranks of prominent global leaders at Madame Tussauds in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok next...

New Delhi: The bribery charges against Trinamool Congress members would be probed by the Lok Sabha's Committee on Ethics, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan...

Tokyo: Japan's ruling party urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government on Wednesday to consider seeking international arbitration over...

Yangon: Myanmar's powerful army chief congratulated incoming president Htin Kyaw and pledged cooperation on Wednesday, after the ally of Aung San Suu...

Jakarta: Indonesian security forces have killed two ethnic Uighur Chinese belonging to a militant network led by the country's most wanted man, police...

Seoul: North Korea's supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier, who was arrested while visiting the country, to 15 years of hard labour on...

New Delhi: A parliamentary panel on Tuesday termed as "too harsh" the government's proposed 85 per cent pictorial warnings on tobacco products...

Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Russia next week for what he described as possibly the best opportunity in years to end the...