LONDON:  Theresa May faces her first nationwide electoral test as Britain's prime minister on Thursday, as she toughens her Brexit position just weeks before a crucial general election, reports AFP. Britain will choose thousands of new local councillors in a vote that will be closely watched…

London: Somalia's security forces have shot dead a 31-year-old government minister after mistaking him for a militant Islamist, officials have said,…

MUMBAI: An Egyptian once believed to be the 'world's heaviest woman' left an Indian hospital Thursday for the United Arab Emirates where she…

MUMBAI: An Indian court Thursday convicted five police officers and two doctors of tampering with evidence in the gang rape of a pregnant woman and the murder of her family during one of the worst incidents of religious unrest since independence, reports AFP. Bilkis Bano was gang raped and seven of…

WASHINGTON: One person and a suspected shooter were killed Wednesday at a community college campus near Dallas in an apparent murder-suicide, according to local police, reports AFP. North Lake College in Irving, Texas locked down its campus following reports of an active shooter in the area at approximately…

VATICAN CITY: The Vatican and Myanmar established full diplomatic relations on Thursday in the latest step in the former pariah Asian state's rehabilitation by the international community, reports AFP. The Vatican said it would appoint a papal nuncio to Yangon and that the country would open an…

KATHMANDU: Nepal has issued a record number of permits to climbers wanting to summit Mount Everest this spring, an official said Thursday, prompting fears of overcrowding on the world's highest peak, reports AFP. A record 373 foreign climbers have been cleared to scale Everest from the south side…