At least 35 people were feared to have died when a large section of a motorway bridge collapsed in the northern Italian city of Genoa. The emergency services said at least 13 others were injured, including five in critical condition, as rescue workers battled to find people trapped

DHAKA: Urging Myanmar to take back the Rohingyas who fled into Bangladesh under persecution, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the country must recognize the Rohingya people as its citizen because they had been living there for generations. Mahathir, at 93 the world’s

A motorway bridge has collapsed in the northwest Italian city of Genoa, sending vehicles plummeting up to 90m (295ft) to the ground and killing at least 22 people, officials say. Video footage appears to show one of the towers holding up the suspension bridge collapsing in stormy

Two Pakistani soldiers were killed by the Indian Army in response to ceasefire violations along the Line of Control in Tangdhar sector of Jammu & Kashmir, a defence spokesman told Indian media Tuesday (August 14).  Indian troops carried out operations on Monday night after the

DHAKA: Bangladesh capital city Dhaka is the second least liveable city of the world, as per an annual global survey conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Dhaka is followed by Lagos of Nigeria. Syria’s war-torn city of Damascus topped the list of the least livable cities.

Heavy rains in India’s Himachal Pradesh claimed 16 lives, including four of a family, while hundreds of people were stranded across the state after incessant rains triggered landslides, snapping road links, officials said on Monday (August 13). A government advisory urged people to

A four-day assault by the Taliban on a key provincial capital has killed about 100 Afghan security forces, the country’s defense minister, Tariq Shah Bahrami, said Monday. Twenty to 30 civilians have been killed in the fighting, he said. It is a major show of force by the Taliban as

DHAKA: At least nine people have been killed in a fire at a hospital in Taiwan, state media has reported. The fire broke out on in a ward on the seventh floor of the hospital in New Taipei City early on Monday. About 16 other people, including patients and staff, remain in a

VS Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose celebrated writing and brittle, provocative personality drew admiration and revulsion in equal measures, died Saturday at his London home, his family said. He was 85. His wife, Nadira Naipaul, said he was “a giant in all that he

Days of incessant rain have led to raging floods across Kerala. Buildings and infrastructure have collapsed, leaving over 54,000 people homeless.  At least 29 people have died in rain, flood, and landslide-related incidents, while tens-of-thousands have been evacuated from affected

San Francisco jurors just ruled that that Roundup, the most popular weedkiller in the world, gave a former school groundskeeper terminal cancer. So they awarded him $289 million in damages -- mostly to punish the agricultural company Monsanto. Dewayne Johnson's victory Friday

An empty Horizon Airlines plane has crashed after it was stolen by a ground employee from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Friday night, according to a senior federal aviation source. North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled fighter jets to accompany the plane, which

Taliban fighters have attacked Ghazni, Afghanistan's eastern provincial capital, leaving dead and wounded before Afghan forces pushed them out of the city, officials said. The attack on Ghazni city began overnight on Friday. Within hours, the Taliban claimed to have much of the

North Korea has lashed out again at the US for not lifting sanctions against the country. The foreign ministry said it had made various goodwill gestures, and yet the US was still following an "outdated acting script" and jeopardising any moves towards denuclearisation. North Korea

Sixty nine tourists, including 20 foreigners, were stranded at a private resort in the popular tea county of Munnar in Kerala's Idukki district of India.  The roads leading to the resort are blocked due to landslides as rain continued to pound most parts of state. The army has

An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen on Thursday morning killed at least 50 people including dozens of children traveling on a bus in the country’s Saada Province, local health officials said. The International Committee of the Red Cross said its medical teams received

Dozens of children, most believed to be under the age of 10, have been killed after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a school bus in northern Yemen Thursday. The bus was hit as it was driving through a market in the rebel-held province of Saada, according to the Houthi-run

The death toll from Sunday's devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok has risen to 347, according to the state-run Antara news agency. The majority of people died in Kayangan, on the north side of the island, Antara reported. Another 1,447 people were injured and

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to three charges of money laundering on Wednesday (Aug 8). He was charged with receiving a total of RM42 million (S$14.1 million) as proceeds of illegal activities between December 2014 and February 2015, reports the

China claims to have successfully tested a new hypersonic aircraft that could eventually be used to carry warheads at six times the speed of sound, the latest technological advance by the country’s fast-growing military sector. The aircraft, known as Xingkong-2 or Starry Sky-2, uses