At least 30 passengers were killed, leaving seven injured on Monday morning when a minibus fell into a deep gorge along Keshwan-Thakrai road in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, police officials said.  The mini bus, according to initial reports, appeared to be carrying excess

Ten people were killed on Sunday when a small, twin-engine airplane crashed into a vacant hangar during takeoff at a Dallas-area airport. No one survived the crash at the Addison Municipal Airport in Addison, about 20 miles north of Dallas, according to city spokeswoman Mary

Sudanese police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters demanding an end to military rule in the capital Khartoum, eyewitnesses say. Thousands of protesters were chanting "Civilian rule" when police dispersed crowds in several part of the city, the witnesses told AFP news agency.

US President Donald Trump has shared a symbolic handshake with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the heavily fortified zone dividing the two Koreas. Mr Trump became the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea after meeting Mr Kim at the demilitarised zone (DMZ).

Italy's far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has accused the captain of a ship carrying rescued migrants of trying to sink a police boat. Carola Rackete was arrested at the Italian port of Lampedusa after a two-week stand-off with police at sea. Her vessel, Sea-Watch 3,

Forces allied to Libya’s internationally recognised government based in Tripoli captured sophisticated US and Chinese rockets as well as drones when they seized a town from eastern forces last week, officials said on Saturday. On Wednesday, Tripoli’s forces took Gharyan, south of

A fresh round of talks between the U.S. and the Taliban is to begin in Qatar Saturday, just days after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington is hoping for an Afghan peace agreement before September 1. Suhail Shaheen, spokesman for the Taliban’s political office in Doha,

The United States and China have agreed to resume trade negotiations, easing a protracted row that has fuelled a global economic slowdown. US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping reached the agreement on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan. Mr Trump said the

President Trump has invited North Korea leader Kim Jong-un - on Twitter - to meet him at the fortified frontier that divides North and South Korea. The US leader is due to visit South Korea after the G20 summit in Japan. He arrives in Seoul on Saturday for a two-day trip aimed at

Fifteen people have died in Pune after a portion of the wall of a residential building collapsed early this morning after heavy rain. Among the dead four children and a woman. Dramatic visuals showed several cars stuck in debris in Pune's Kondhwa area. The wall crashed down into

US President Donald Trump has appeared to make light of Russian election interference during a meeting with the country's leader, Vladimir Putin. A smirking Mr Trump wagged his finger at the Russian president and said: "Don't meddle in the election, please." The pair were

Four million people have been effectively stripped of their Indian citizenship in Assam as part of a drive to rid the state of "illegal migrants". Some facing possible deportation have taken their own lives, relatives and activists say. One day in May, 88-year-old Ashraf Ali told his

France may hit its highest-ever recorded temperature on Friday in a heatwave that has swept across Europe this week. The current record is 44.1C (111.4F) - measured during a heatwave in 2003 which killed thousands of people. In response, France's national weather service has

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a "productive" trilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and extensively discussed issues of the Indo-Pacific region, connectivity, and infrastructure development ahead of the formal opening of the

An Air India passenger plane has made a "precautionary landing" at London's Stansted Airport after the airline initially reported a bomb threat. Flight AI191 was flying from the Indian city of Mumbai to Newark in the US. The Ministry of Defence said RAF Typhoon fighter jets

A heatwave affecting much of Europe is expected to intensify further, with countries including France and Spain expecting temperatures above 40C (104F) later on Thursday. On Wednesday Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic recorded their highest-ever temperatures for June.

At least 16 people were crushed to death and dozens injured in Madagascar on Wednesday at a stadium hosting national independence day celebrations in the capital Antananarivo. The bodies of sixteen victims, including three children, were stored at the mortuary of HJRA hospital in the

Democrats in the US House of Representatives have approved $4.5bn (£3.5bn) in humanitarian aid for the southern border. Several migrant deaths, coupled with reports of "severely neglected" children at a Texan border patrol station, have helped shape the debate. But the bill faces a

China has suspended some pork imports from Canada, adding to tensions between the two countries. The move comes after Chinese authorities found a banned feed additive in a batch of pork products exported from Canada to China. An investigation found that up to 188 health certificates

More than 100 migrant children have been returned to a Texas border station just a day after being transferred, US border officials say. About 250 migrant children were moved from the overcrowded centre after lawyers granted access by a judge said the children were "severely