NEW DELHI: India police say they have successfully extracted 106 cocaine capsules from a woman who was allegedly trying to smuggle the drugs into the country, reports BBC. The 25-year-old foreign national was arrested at the international airport in the capital Delhi on 14 May after a tip-off, police…

NEW DELHI: A deadly virus carried mainly by fruit bats has killed at least three people in southern India, sparking a statewide health alert yesterday, reports AFP. Eight other deaths in the state of Kerala are being investigated for possible links to the Nipah virus, which has a 70 percent mortality…

STOCKHOLM: A Danish minister known for her strong anti-immigration views yesterday called for Muslims to take time off work during the fasting period of Ramadan, saying the practice is “dangerous for all of us”, reports AFP. The comments from immigration and integration minister Inger Stojberg,…

MADRID: Spain’s prime minister yesterday urged Catalonia to form a “viable” government after rejecting the region’s new administration which includes jailed and exiled former ministers who backed its independence push, reports AFP. “Catalonia needs a viable government not…

BRUSSELS: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to live-stream his meeting with European Parliament members as he answers questions in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a top official said yesterday. The meeting on Tuesday with the parliament’s most senior members was initially…

CARACAS: President Nicolas Maduro was unsurprisingly declared winner of Venezuela’s election Sunday in a poll rejected as invalid by his rivals,…