U.S. President Donald Trump's in-laws are now officially citizens of the United States. Viktor and Amalija Knavs, Melania Trump's Slovenian-born parents, took the oath of citizenship in New York on Thursday in a private ceremony.
A Russia TV report has revealed that an India-born UN official Ravi Karkara is at the center of a 14-month-long investigation into sexual abuse charges at the gender equality organisation.
The release this week of the design for China’s new zodiac stamps – for the Year of Pig in 2019 – has led to speculation that the government might soon relax its family planning policies that mandates just one child per family.
Asma Al-Assad, wife of Bashar al-Assad, has been diagnosed with breast cancer, the Syrian president’s office has announced via its social media accounts.
The Oscar Academy’s board of governors approved a new award category on Tuesday – outstanding achievement in popular film. The introduction of a new category was among three changes which were approved.
Police in Indonesia have freed a 28-year-old woman who was held captive in a cave for 15 years by a village witchdoctor. The perpetrator is alleged to have kidnapped the woman when she was just 13 years old, and brainwashed her into believing he was possessed by a spirit or "jin".
Elon Musk stunned investors on Tuesday with a tweet saying he wants to turn Tesla into a private company. The outspoken entrepreneur took to Twitter to deliver the news. "Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured," Musk tweeted in early afternoon trade.
Indian ride-hailing startup Ola has announced that it plans to start its taxi hailing services in the U.K. This marks Ola’s second foray into an overseas market where it is directly pitted against Uber.
Catastrophic wildfires are burning across U.S.’s western state of California. Despite a massive effort to contain them, one blaze has nearly doubled in size over the last three days, making it the largest in the state's history.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has said that he cannot enter talks with the "untrustworthy" administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. This statement came 24 hours before Washington is set to impose unilateral economic sanctions on Iran after it pulled out from the multilateral 2015 nuclear deal.
Apple and Facebook have deleted content belonging to U.S. far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from their platforms, alleging hate speech, glorified violence and other policy violations.
Planetary scientists in a new report have concluded that we could soon cross a threshold in Earth’s temperatures leading to boiling hot temperatures and towering seas in the decades and centuries to come.
Thousands of students are protesting across Bangladesh. The capital city of Dhaka has seen students come onto the streets leading to police firing tear gas shells and the government shutting down internet services.
The mother of slain Al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, has broken her silence to speak about her son whose actions have changed the course of countries in the Middle East.
Asad Umar, the incoming finance minister of Pakistan’s newly-elected government has said that his country would need $12 billion in loans - at the very least - just to keep itself afloat.
Iran has started carrying out naval exercises in the Persian Gulf, amid heightened tensions with the Trump Administration, U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday.
The U.S. has been unable to persuade China to cut Iranian oil imports, according to two officials familiar with the negotiations, reports Bloomberg. Beijing has, however, agreed not to ramp up purchases of Iranian crude, according to the officials.
Drones armed with explosives detonated near Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as he gave a speech to soldiers in the capital city Caracas on Saturday but the socialist leader was unharmed, according to the Venezuelan government.
U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter just before midnight on Friday night to question the intelligence of CNN Presenter Don Lemon and guest LeBron James. The duo were on CNN to discuss James’ new school model for at-risk youth in the U.S.
North Korea's foreign minister has called U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s words "alarming" as tensions over the North's nuclear programme have picked up again.
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