MATNOG, Philippines: Landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Kai-Tak have killed 26 people and 23 more are missing in the eastern Philippines, authorities…

Shimla: With less than a day to go before the counting of votes begins in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls, both ruling Congress and the opposition BJP are claiming victory, reports PTI. While the Congress dismissed the exit poll results, which predicted a BJP victory, the saffron party expressed…

VIENNA: Austria’s conservatives and the far-right unveiled on Saturday their programme for a coalition led by Sebastian Kurz, 31, set to be chancellor and the world’s youngest leader, reports AFP. Both Kurz’s People’s Party (OeVP) and the Freedom Party (FPOe) campaigned on promises…

MONTECITO, United States: Ash rained down Saturday on the dry hills and multi-million-dollar homes of Montecito, where firefighters chased spot blazes…

WASHINGTON: Returning fighters from the vanquished Islamic State group pose a grave danger to Europe and the United States, but the primary extremist threat comes from people living and radicalized inside their country, US terror experts say, reports AFP. Even if they have no battleground experience,…

SYDNEY: A Sydney-based “loyal agent of North Korea” has been charged with trying to sell missile parts and technology on the black market to raise money for Pyongyang in breach of international sanctions, Australian police said yesterday, reports AFP. The 59-year-old naturalised Australian…

Washington: The Pentagon has been running a secret multi-million dollar programme to investigate Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), US media report. Only a small number of officials were aware of the programme, which began in 2007 and was reportedly closed in 2012. The New York Times says documents…