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Portland stabbing survivor: Intervening was 'the right thing to do'

Micah Fletcher is one of three men stabbed on the OR commuter train by a man who vented a racist tirade at two girls, one of whom is Muslim and was wearing a h...

Veterans commemorate 73rd anniversary of D-Day at National World War II Memorial

A ceremony was held at the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C.to commemorate the fateful day when 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, Fr...

UN rights chief decries Palestinian, Israeli suffering

The Arab response to the 1967 defeat was to prepare for the next war which came in October 1973 when Egypt and Syria launched simultaneous surprise attacks on...

China upset at Mattis' "irresponsible remarks" on South China Sea

Hua said China "respects and safeguards all countries' freedom of navigation and overflight" in the area "but definitely opposes certain country's show of for...

Trump Has Reportedly 'Grown Sour' on Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Sessions' decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in last year's election, according to people close to Mr. Trump who insisted o...

Top Justice official enlisted in Trump probe

One day after Flynn's resignation in February, the president dismissed other senior national security officials attending a meeting in the Oval Office to speak ...

Tories and Labour neck and neck

At that stage, according to Financial Times research, it was 43% Tory to 25% Labour , a 18-point lead; now that lead has narrowed to just seven points, wit...

Putin denies knowledge of Jared Kushner's back channel proposal

Flynn, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was paid $45,000 to speak at the event. Putin repeated...

Trump will not block former FBI Director from testimony

Originally accused of felony espionage, Drake pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of exceeding authorized use of a computer. At roughly the same time, the Justic...

Bombing in western Afghanistan kills 7

The death toll in the May 31 bomb attack in the Afghan capital has risen to 150, President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday at the start of an worldwide security ...

Trump denounces 'horrific' London terror attack, vows that 'this bloodshed must end'

Khan spoke those words in a television interview Sunday in the context of reassuring Londoners about an increased police presence they might see. Trump tweete...

Manila casino attack not terrorism

Police confirmed there were reports of gunfire at Resorts World, which is across a road from one of the main terminals of the Philippines' worldwide airport...

Sen. Burr: Don't Foresee a Deal on Healthcare This Year

Theresa Treece is among those anxious that she'd have to shell out more for health care under the GOP bill. The survey also finds that almost half of Amer...

India to launch heaviest 3136 kg communication satellite GSAT-19 shortly

Former Isro chairperson K Radhakrishnan said the successful launch would open up the global market for Isro and that foreign satellites can also be launched f...

Maharashtra SSC Result 2017 is expected by 9 June

Although no official announcement has been made for the dates of SSC result by the Maharashtra Board. After the declaration of results, candidates can check the...

Curfew in part of Mandsaur as farmers' stir turns violent

Several others with injured. According to eyewitnesses, protesting farmers torched vehicles and indulged in stone pelting in Parshvanath area under Pipaliya Ma...

Trump will not block ex-FBI director's testimony

Trump had been considering whether to invoke executive privilege on his White House conversations with Comey and keep him from testifying Thursday before the ...

Special PIA flights for Qatar to bring back stranded Pakistani pilgrims

The decision plunged Qatar into chaos and ignited the biggest diplomatic crisis in the Gulf since the 1991 war against Iraq. "He received a call from the emir...

Vegas Man Climbs El Capitan Without Ropes Or Safety Harnesses

El Capitan in Yosemite National Park , California. But every time he looked up the massive granite wall, he found it too daunting . Seriously, think about ...

Shocked visitors see live donkey fed to tigers at Chinese zoo

The video , which soon went viral on Chinsese social media, shows a donkey being unloaded in the tigers' enclosure, where tigers quickly set upon by it. to tig...

Sturgeon: "Election is important for the Borders, and Scotland as a whole"

In an interview on ITV's Tonight programme she said she had not changed her timetable for a second Scottish independence referendum , and that Scotland shoul...

London terrorist appeared in TV doco Jihadis Next Door

Australian media reported that Boden was 28 and from Loxton in southern Australia. Another Australian woman, Sara Zelenak, has been reported missing since th...

North Korea rejects new sanctions, to continue weapons programme -KCNA

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who spoke at the opening of the forum on Friday evening, said there was concern in the region that the USA withdrawa...

Zakir Musa Calls Indian Muslims 'Most Shameless' For Not Joining Jihad

In the clip, he asserts the war of Kashmir being not just limited to Kashmir and has called it "a war between Islam and the infidel". A radical militant leade...

London mayor calls to cancel Trump's planned United Kingdom visit

London police on Monday identified the alleged attackers as Khuram Shazad Butt, 27 , a British citizen born in Pakistan, and Rachid Redouane , who claimed ...

Defense chief: North Korea a 'clear and present danger'

The defense chiefs from Japan and France on Saturday welcomed USA leadership in the Asia-Pacific to manage the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and to maintai...

South Korea fires 90 warning shots after object flies across border

South Korean officials reported that on Sunday, North Korea fired a missile, just a week after testing its new intermediate-range ballistic missile . Sunda...

London mayor tells AP he doesn't care about Trump tweets

Khan says that London residents should expect to see an intensified police presence in the wake of the attacks. The pair have clashed over the response to...

Syrian Observatory: US-backed force attacks eastern edge of Raqqa

Islamic State declared a caliphate straddling parts of Syria and Iraq after capturing Mosul in June 2014. SDF is an alliance of Kurdish and Arab mili...

Indian naval ship leaves for Lanka

The government has set up 104 temporary shelters in public buildings to accommodate those driven out of their homes by flooding and landslides, he added. Indi...

Almost 6 in 10 oppose Trump scrapping Paris agreement

Since Trump's announcement on Thursday, at least 211 mayors adopted the Paris goals for their own cities, and at least 17 governors have released individual st...

Kellyanne Conway's husband is now criticizing President Trump on Twitter

A well-connected conservative lawyer raised eyebrows in Washington Monday morning, as George Conway III - husband of top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway,...

Sturgeon urges voters to help keep Tories in check

Willie Rennie says the Nicola Sturgeon's call for a fresh referendum on the issue before the United Kingdom withdraws from the European Union has made people ...

Malaysia Airlines flight turns back after bomb threat

Malaysian Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi had on late Wednesday night told The Star newspaper that the disruptive passenger was drunk. A man is...

At least 6 dead after series of explosions rock funeral in Kabul

Salim was the son of Alam Ezadyar, the deputy speaker of the upper house of Afghanistan's Parliament. They had been protesting against Wednesday's massive t...