As many as 12 people have died and more than 50 others were hospitalized on Friday (Dec 14) after consuming 'prasad' (holy offering) at a temple in Chamarajanagar of Indian state of Karnataka.  Chamarajanagar superintendent of police, Dharmendra Kumar Meena said. The food

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will resign on Saturday, news agency AFP quoted his son Namal Rajapaksa as saying on Friday. Namal said he will quit “to ensure stability of the nation”, after the Supreme Court ordered that he should not exercise the powers of the

A crash involving a high-speed train at a station in the Turkish capital Ankara has killed at least four people and injured more than 40, local media say. Images from the scene showed emergency services working to rescue people from badly damaged carriages on Thursday morning. Some

Prime Minister Theresa May has won a vote of confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party by 200 to 117. After securing 63% of the total vote, she is now immune from a leadership challenge for a year. Speaking in Downing Street, she vowed to deliver the Brexit "people

The chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei has been released on bail in Canada, setting her up for a lengthy legal fight over extradition to the United States. But the case of Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested in Vancouver earlier this month, took on a new dimension after US

Two French police union officials say four people have died after a gunman started shooting near Strasbourg's Christmas market and the suspect was wounded, but is still at large. One of the officials, Stephane Morisse from the FGP Police union, told AP authorities went to the

Time magazine has collectively named Jamal Khashoggi and other killed and imprisoned journalists as its “person of the year” for 2018. The accolade – given to ‘The Guardians and the War on Truth’ – also honours the journalists killed in the mass shooting at the Capital

Nearly a week after two US Marine Corps aircraft collided in mid-air off the Japanese coast and crashed in the Pacific Ocean, the search for five missing crew members have been called off. All five Marines have been declared dead. The tragedy occurred last Thursday as an F/A-18

US Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Nikki Haley, on Monday, said that Pakistan should not be given 'even a dollar' as it continues to harbour terrorists, who 'turn around and kill American soldiers'. Talking to a US magazine-The Atlantic, Haley said that funds

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has been arrested by graft investigators over the “tampering” of the 1MDB final audit report. The former prime minister was arrested around 11am at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission headquarters here, minutes after he arrived for a fresh round of

Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won a convincing victory in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, consolidating his authority. His bloc won more than 70% of the vote, according to near-complete results. A journalist turned politician, Mr Pashinyan

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has rejected demands to extradite suspects connected to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as sought by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “We do not extradite our citizens,” Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference in Riyadh at the

Twitter's chief executive has been criticised for promoting Myanmar as a tourist destination despite widespread allegations of human rights abuses in the country. In a series of tweets, Jack Dorsey said he had travelled to northern Myanmar last month for a meditation retreat.

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari has denied claims that he had died and was replaced by a Sudanese impostor, breaking his silence on a rumor that has circulated on social media for months. Mr Buhari, who is running for re-election in February, spent five months in Britain last

Six people have been killed and dozens have been injured, 12 of them seriously, in a stampede at a nightclub in Italy, officials say. The incident took place near the eastern coastal city of Ancona. Some reports say there was panic after pepper spray was fired inside the club in the

A shootout between police and bank robbers attempting to blow up ATMs has killed 14 people, including six hostages. Most of the deaths occurred when police opened fire on the robbers at the two bank branches on the main street in Milagres, a small town in north-eastern Brazil, a

China launched a groundbreaking mission Saturday to land a spacecraft on the largely unexplored far side of the moon, demonstrating its growing ambitions as a space power to rival Russia, the European Union and the US.  A Long March 3B rocket carrying a lunar probe blasted off at 2:23

Police and CNN have issued an all-clear message after the network's New York offices and studios were evacuated Thursday night because of a phoned-in bomb threat. "The NYPD has now given us the all clear, and employees have been permitted to return to the building," CNN Worldwide

The Eiffel Tower in Paris is to close on Saturday amid fears of further street violence from "yellow vest" anti-government protests. Across France, 89,000 police officers will be on duty and armoured vehicles will be deployed in the capital, France Prime Minister Edouard Philippe

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake has struck off the east coast of New Caledonia in the South Pacific, according to seismologists. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) warned of possible hazardous tsunamis in the region following the shallow and powerful tremor on Wednesday. The