Signs banning Muslims from parking causes outrage in US
Houston: Signs banning Muslims from using a shopping centre's parking lot mysteriously appeared this week in a city of the southern US state of Texas, generating massive outrage.
The posters, which r
US evacuating its citizens from Yemen amid Qaeda threat; Britain withdraws embassy staff
Washington: The US on Tuesday began evacuating its nationals from Yemen amid a worldwide alert linked to electronic intercepts from Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, ordering one of the most serious
US tops in user data requests, India among least: Twitter
New Delhi: US government, which has been in eye of a storm due to the snooping PRISM programme, had the lion's share in user data requests under it between January-June 2013, while India had less tha
Edward Snowden granted 1 year temporary asylum in Russia, leaves airport
Moscow: Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has left the Moscow airport where he has been holed up for over a month, after being granted temporary asylum for one year in Russia, his Russia
US urges Russia to hand over Snowden
Washington: The United States on Thursday repeated its demand that Russia return American intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to face justice. US Secretary of State John Kerry called his Russian oppos
Barack Obama breaks silence on Trayvon Martin; Thousands take to US streets to protest verdict
Washington: US President Barack Obama offered a very personal take on the Trayvon Martin case on Friday, saying that 35 years ago, he could have been the unarmed black teen shot dead by a neighborhoo
Obama calls for calm after Zimmerman acquittal; thousands protest across US
Sanford, Florida: U.S. President Barack Obama called for calm on Sunday after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, as thousands of civil r
Two killed as Asiana passenger jet crashes at San Francisco airport
San Francisco: An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 passenger jet crashed and burst into flames Saturday as it landed short of the runway at San Francisco International Airport, killing two people and inj
India to question U.S. over ‘serious allegations’ of embassy spying
New Delhi: India will raise with Washington what it called serious allegations that the United States 'intrusively monitored' the Indian embassy there, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
The Gua
US Supreme Court clears gay weddings
Washington: In a huge victory for gays and lesbians, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a law denying federal benefits to homosexual couples and cleared the way for same-sex marriage in