London: The daughter of former British prime minister Tony Blair was held up at gunpoint in an attempted armed robbery in London but a spokesman for the family said that she escaped unhurt.
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London: Earth will remain habitable for at least another 1.75 billion years, a new study suggests.
After this point, our planet will be in the 'hot zone' of the Sun, with temperatures so high that th

Washington: This must be a dream job for couch potatoes! NASA is willing to pay you over USD 5000 a month - and all you have to do is spend 70 days in bed.
The 'Bed Rest Study' being conducted by the

Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah, infamous as the “butcher of Mirpur”, was Tuesday sentenced to death for 1971 war crimes by Bangladesh Supreme Court. The verdict comes eight months after a special tribunal awarded him life imprisonment, sparking protests by Islamists.

The foreign ministers of Russia and France on Tuesday admitted they still had differences over their approaches on how to end the Syrian conflict, despite a landmark agreement for Damascus to hand over its chemical weapons.

A car bomb exploded at the main entrance to Syria’s rebel-held Bab al-Hawa border crossing into Turkey on Tuesday, a monitoring group said.

Washington: Several people were killed and as many as 10 wounded today in a shooting at a building at the Washington Navy Yard. A defense official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of a

South Korean troops shot dead a man trying to swim across a border river into North Korea Monday after he ignored warnings, a defence ministry spokesman said.

Britain’s biggest family is just getting a little larger as it prepares to welcome their 17th baby home.

Iran’s President Hasan Rouhani says his country will accept anyone as ruler of Syria who is elected by the Syrian people the official news agency reported Monday.