Less than two weeks before his scheduled trip to Denmark, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he has postponed his visit to Copenhagen after the Danish Prime Minister disputed his interest in buying Greenland as "absurd." "Denmark is a very special country with incredible

India's second lunar module has begun orbiting the Moon, nearly a month after blasting off, officials have confirmed. The manoeuvre to put the module into the lunar orbit was completed at 09:02 local time (04:32 GMT) on Tuesday. Chandrayaan-2 was launched from the Sriharikota

The UK Foreign Office has expressed concern over reports that a Hong Kong consulate employee has been detained at the Chinese border. Media reports said Simon Cheng, who is thought to be from Hong Kong, is believed to have gone missing on 8 August. An FCO statement said it was

Boris Johnson has told the EU the backstop plan for the Irish border must be scrapped because it is "unviable" and "anti-democratic". In a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk, the PM said the backstop - which aims to avoid a hard border - risked undermining the Northern

US President Donald Trump talked to both Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday about the need to reduce tensions over Kashmir and avoid steps that might escalate the crisis. Trump also tweeted that he 'good conversations' with

Scores of people are feared dead after a fuel tanker exploded in the western Ugandan district of Rubirizi on Sunday, a police spokesperson said. Marshal Tumusiime, Great Bushenyi regional police spokesperson, told Xinhua by telephone that the explosion occurred after the petrol tanker

The bridegroom whose wedding was targeted by a suicide bomber in the Afghan capital Kabul says he has "lost hope" after the deadly attack. In a TV interview, Mirwais Elmi said his bride survived but his brother and other relatives were among the 63 people killed in Saturday's

President Trump confirmed Sunday that he has asked his administration to explore the possibility of buying Greenland, opining that “essentially, it’s a large real estate deal.” “A lot of things can be done,” Trump told reporters in Morristown, N.J., after wrapping up a 10-day

An Iranian ship held by Gibraltar since July on suspicion of transporting oil to Syria has left port. Marine tracking shows the tanker moving east into the Mediterranean and lists Kalamata in Greece as the destination. Gibraltar earlier rejected a request by the US to again seize

Eleven people, most of them Lao nationals, were killed and four others were injured in a violent collision between a passenger van and an 18-wheel lorry in Wang Sombun district of this eastern province on Sunday morning, police said. Pol Capt Suchart Kokaewthongma, an investigator from

Landline telephone services are being restored to parts of Indian-administered Kashmir, India says. Seventeen out of 100 phone exchanges in the Kashmir Valley are operational, officials say. Internet and mobile phone services remain suspended. Most of the area has been in lockdown

A waiter near Paris has been shot dead by a customer who was reportedly angry because his sandwich was not prepared quickly enough. Police say a murder investigation has been launched after the incident on Friday evening in the eastern suburb of Noisy-le-Grand. The suspect fled the

Boris Johnson will tell EU leaders there needs to be a new Brexit deal when he makes his first trip abroad as PM later this week. The UK will leave the EU on 31 October with or without a deal, he will insist. However No 10 said there will be "very little discussion" of Brexit during

Sudan's ruling military council and civilian opposition alliance have signed a landmark power-sharing deal. The agreement ushers in a new governing council, including both civilians and generals, to pave the way towards elections and civilian rule. Mohamed Hamdan "Hemeti"

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrim was killed and 22 others injured in a bus accident in Wadi al-Fara area of Saudi Arabia Friday (August 16). The accident happened around 11:15pm local time. The bus carrying 35 pilgrims to Medina had a wheel blast.  Deceased Nurul Islam, 70, was

A bomb has exploded in a wedding hall in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing 63 people and wounding more than 180. Witnesses told the BBC a suicide bomber detonated explosives during a wedding ceremony. The explosion happened at around 22:40 local time (18.10 GMT) in an area in the

A massive fire has broken out at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. The fire has reportedly broken out on the first, second, third and fourth floors of a builing in the PC block of AIIMS Delhi. Initially, the fire was limited to the first two floors. A

The US Justice Department has issued a warrant to seize a detained Iranian oil tanker, a day after a judge in Gibraltar ordered it to be released. The Grace 1 supertanker, which is carrying 2.1m barrels of oil, was detained on 4 July on suspicion of illegally transporting oil to Syria.

UN Security Council members believe India and Pakistan should refrain from taking unilateral action over the disputed region of Kashmir, China's UN envoy said on Friday after the council met on the issue for the first time in decades.  The 15-member council met behind closed doors

US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has rejected Israel's offer to allow her to make a "humanitarian" visit to her grandmother in the occupied West Bank. Ms Tlaib said that she could not comply with the "oppressive conditions" being imposed. A critic of Israeli policy towards the