An Indian actor who was arrested this week over a tweet criticizing Hindu nationalist ideology has often made headlines for his political views.
Chetan Kumar was arrested on Tuesday over a recent tweet where he said the Hindutva ideology promoted by (...)
A winter storm that brought unprecedented snow to southern California has moved eastward, bringing with it tornadoes and powerful winds.
Residents in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Texas were asked to seek shelter as severe weather makes its way to (...)
A major winter storm battered the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest with high winds and heavy snow on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of schools to close, grounding air travel and making road travel difficult - if not impossible - in some U.S. (...)
Hollywood star Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film 'One Million Years B.C.' made her an international sex symbol throughout the 1960s and '70s, has died. She was aged 82.
Welch passed away early on (...)
The President of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), Abdulaziz Abdullah Al-Duailj, today signed a bilateral agreement of air transport services between the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the government of the Eastern (...)
Commuters in Toronto have been navigating the city's public transport system with growing unease, following a surge of violent incidents targeting both riders and operators.
As of Friday, there were seven reported incidents of violence in the last (...)
A former graduate student in Chicago was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for spying for the Chinese government by gathering information on engineers and scientists in the United States.
Ji Chaoqun, a Chinese national who came to the US (...)
Balkrishna Doshi, one of the Indian subcontinent's most celebrated architects, has died at the age of 95.
Doshi passed away on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson from the Pritzker Prize. He was India's first — and to date, only — winner of the (...)
On a day of political drama not seen in Congress for a century, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy repeatedly failed in his bid to be elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
The House adjourned without a speaker on Tuesday night — the (...)
Thousands of travellers are stranded at airports across the US as flight cancellations and delays continue to wreak havoc amid a deadly winter storm.
By mid-afternoon eastern time on Tuesday, nearly 4,900 flights had been cancelled and over 4,400 (...)
Tens of millions of Americans endured freezing temperatures, blizzard conditions, electricity outages, and canceled holiday gatherings Friday from a massive winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing nearly (...)
A powerful arctic winter storm will make its way through the US and Canada this week, bringing with it crippling snow and freezing temperatures.
The "once-in-a-generation" storm began in the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday, and has made its way east (...)
The Texas border city of El Paso is grappling with a mounting humanitarian crisis as a Trump-era policy hangs in the balance, leaving many migrants unsheltered in the cold night.
Title 42 gives the government the power to automatically expel (...)
America goes to the polls on Tuesday in midterm elections that have divided the country.
And in Europe, there are concerns that a strong showing by the right-wing Republican party —- and in particular some of the more extreme candidates endorsed by (...)
Minister of Transport and Logistics and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority of Civil Aviation, Eng. Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser, signed today an agreement in air transport services between Saudi Arabia and Bulgaria, which was (...)
The geopolitics of knowledge is shifting. The 19th annual edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, published on Oct. 12, demonstrates an accelerating trend: the US's share of the world's top 100 universities is declining, (...)
Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for their work on banks and financial crises.
The three US economists were recognized by the Royal Swedish Academy of (...)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency to address a "crisis situation" over an influx of migrants. More than 17,000 have arrived in the city from the southern border since April.
Republican states like Texas, Arizona and (...)
A jersey worn by basketball icon Michael Jordan during the opening game of the 1998 NBA Finals has been sold for a record $10.1m (£8.8m).
This is the most a piece of sporting memorabilia has fetched in history.
Auction house Sotheby's says the item (...)
Florida's governor Ron DeSantis is taking credit for sending two planes carrying about 50 migrants to the wealthy island of Martha's Vineyard.
It is part of the state's program to send migrants to "sanctuary destinations", a statement says.
This (...)
Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw died Wednesday at a Washington, DC, hospital of pneumonia unrelated to Covid-19, Shaw's family announced Thursday. Shaw was 82.
Shaw was CNN's first chief anchor and was with the network when it launched on June 1, (...)
King Abdullah Port has recently launched the "MSC Indus 2", provided by the leading global container shipping company, MSC, to help the port contribute to the development of the Kingdom's booming export market, by facilitating trade between North (...)
In 1929, a young volunteer of the Indian National Congress party had a moment of epiphany.
Nanik Motwane was watching the venerated national hero Mahatma Gandhi struggling to get himself heard at huge pro-Independence public meetings. The leader (...)
US actress Anne Heche is not expected to survive, her family has said, after a car crash earlier this week that left her vehicle engulfed in flames.
She remains in a coma and had "a severe anoxic brain injury" — when the brain is deprived of oxygen, (...)
NEW YORK — The step taken by Saudi Arabia to open its airspace for all air carriers is not a prelude toward other steps, the Charge d'Affaires at Saudi Arabia's permanent delegation to the United Nations confirmed.
Mohammed Al-Atiq made the remarks (...)
