RAIPUR: Suspected Maoist rebels killed 11 paramilitary commandos Saturday in a remote part of central India after ambushing their convoy, police said, the latest attack in the country's simmering internal conflict, reports AFP. The troops were on their way to provide protection to workers for a…

PARIS: The subject of centuries of scrutiny and debate, Mona Lisa’s famous smile is routinely described as ambiguous. But is it really that hard…

KANDAHAR: Eight local policemen were killed by their colleagues after they were poisoned in their base in southern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, in a latest so-called "insider attack", reports AFP. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident, which happened in the Nawshar district…

Guatemala City: Families buried some of the 37 girls killed in a fire at an overcrowded government-run youth shelter as Guatemalan authorities worked Friday to determine exactly what happened, reports AP. The death toll mounted as girls succumbed to gruesome burns from Wednesday's disaster, which…

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's revamped travel ban is facing its first major legal setback, after a federal judge halted enforcement of the directive that would deny US entry to the wife and child of a Syrian refugee already granted asylum, reports AFP. In a preliminary restraining order issued…

WASHINGTON: Another major leak of top secret materials has again put America's top spies in hot water -- while delivering a coup for anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, reports AFP. The group left the Central Intelligence Agency heavily bruised with the publication Tuesday of nearly 9,000 documents it…

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia hopes to open negotiations with North Korea in the "next few days" to secure the release of its citizens trapped in Pyongyang following a row over the murder of Kim Jong-Nam, the foreign minister said Saturday, reports AFP. The killing of the half-brother of North Korea's…

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday threatened to retaliate after the Netherlands banned the foreign minister from flying in for a campaign rally, as he said The Hague's behaviour was reminiscent of Nazism, reports AFP. "They are the vestiges of the Nazis, they are…