YOKOSUKA: The United States will counter any North Korean attack with an "overwhelming and effective" response, Vice President Mike Pence vowed Wednesday, as he stood on the deck of a massive American aircraft carrier docked in Japan, reports AFP. Donald Trump's deputy is in the region…

LOS ANGELES: A 39-year-old man went on a shooting spree in the central California city of Fresno on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring another…

JAKARTA: Jakarta's Christian governor on Wednesday lost heavily to a Muslim former government minister in an election run-off, private polls indicated, after a divisive battle that has damaged Indonesia's reputation as a bastion of tolerant Islam, reports AFP. Anies Baswedan, who was accused…

NEW DELHI: A bus has swerved off a mountain road and plunged into a deep ravine in a Himalayan region of northern India, killing at least 44 people, an…

United States President Donald Trump keeps pushing "Buy American." But the startling reality is Americans are not spending much money on anything right now, regardless of where it is made. Retail sales fell in February and March from last month, reports CNN according to the Commerce Department. …

Houston: Former President George HW Bush has been hospitalised in Houston for four days with a recurrence of a case of pneumonia he had earlier in the…

NEW YORK: A US gunman accused of murdering an elderly grandfather and posting the footage on Facebook killed himself Tuesday after a brief police chase, bringing to a close a frantic nationwide manhunt, reports AFP. Steve Stephens, 37 and thought to have been mentally unstable, had been on the run since…