New Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, and the son of the ex-serviceman who allegedly committed…

AFP, FLORENCE: Fifty years after the river Arno burst its banks with devastating consequences, Florence will this week remember the Angels of the Mud…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Two police officers in the US state of Iowa were shot dead in separate attacks on Wednesday, with both “ambushed” as they sat in their cars, authorities said. “It doesn’t look like there was any interaction between these officers, and whoever the coward…

AFP, SEOUL: South Korea’s embattled president Park Geun-Hye replaced her prime minister and two other top cabinet members on Wednesday, in her latest bid to contain a damaging political scandal. The move was part of a planned reshuffle of senior civil servants and ministers aimed at setting up…

Saudi Arabia has flogged a prince convicted in a criminal case, a newspaper reported yesterday, two weeks after another was executed for murder in rare punishment of the country’s royalty, reports AFP from Riyadh. The unnamed prince was lashed along with other convicts in a prison in the…

AFP, ANKARA: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of weakness as tensions rose Wednesday after Ankara deployed tanks and artillery near Iraq. Abadi had warned Ankara not to provoke a confrontation and said any invasion would see Iraq’s northern…

AFP, PESHAWAR: A Pakistani court refused bail Wednesday to an Afghan woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover after she was arrested in Pakistan and accused of being one of thousands of refugees using fake ID cards. Pakistan last week arrested Sharbat Gula, whose haunting green eyes—captured…