A woman was hanged from a tree in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday and another was allegedly raped in a police station, police said, the latest incidents in a wave of crimes against women reported in the country’s most populous region over the past two weeks. Police suspect the hanged woman was Continue Reading
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Brazil exploded with street parties as its soccer team won the World Cup’s opening game on Thursday but scattered violent protests were a reminder that many locals remain angry over the billions spent to host the tournament. Millions of fans dressed in Brazil’s canary yellow, green and blue home colors, cheered throughout Brazil’s victory over Croatia in Continue Reading
Residents in Delhi should brace for more power cuts amid scorching summer heat, the power minister said on Tuesday, warning that dilapidated power grids could not cope with the extra electricity needed to meet demand. North India has endured a heatwave in the last week, with temperatures in some parts of Delhi reaching a 62-year high. […]Continue Reading
An indigenous man in Bolivia whose reported age would have made him the oldest person ever known, died on Monday night in his village near Lake Titicaca, his only living son said. Carmelo Flores, an Aymara Indian, claimed to be 123 years old. Flores carried national identity documents based on a baptism certificate showing his birthday as […]Continue Reading
A Wal-Mart truck driver charged in the fatal New Jersey traffic accident that left comedian Tracy Morgan critically injured had not slept in more than 24 hours, according to a criminal complaint filed on Monday. Kevin Roper, a Wal-Mart employee who was driving a company tractor trailer at the time of the crash, has been […]Continue Reading
Rik Mayall, the comic actor who pioneered a new wave of British television comedy in the 1980s, died on Monday, aged 56, his management company said. Famed for his anarchic comic style, Mayall co-wrote and starred in the BBC sit-com “The Young Ones”, played the corrupt but suave politician Alan B’Stard in “The New Statesman” […]Continue Reading
China on Monday confirmed that it will participate for the first time in a major U.S.-hosted naval drill this month, sending four ships including a destroyer and frigate, even as deep military distrust persists between the two countries. Beijing’s agreement to join the drills comes at a moment of heightened tension in the disputed East […]Continue Reading
World leaders and veterans paid tribute on the 70th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings to soldiers who fell in the liberation of Europe from Nazi German rule, as host France sought to use the event to achieve a thaw in the Ukraine crisis.Wreaths, parades and parachute-drops honored history’s largest amphibious assault on […]Continue Reading
A man armed with a shotgun opened fire on Thursday at a small Christian college in Seattle, killing one person and wounding three others before he was subdued by a group of students and arrested, Seattle police and hospital officials said.The 26-year-old lone suspect, who was not a student, entered an academic building of Seattle […]Continue Reading
Pharrell Williams pauses, takes a breath and considers how the past year has unfolded for the R&B producer and singer: four Grammy Awards and three mega hit singles including a song that has galvanized countless fans to express how they’re “happy.”And the key, says the 41-year-old known simply as Pharrell, in the midst of […]Continue Reading



















