Published On: July 5, 2017 08:57 AM NPT By: Associated Press
HANOI, July 5: Vietnam's capital will ban motorbikes in metropolitan districts by 2030 to ease traffic congestion and pollution, according to a resolution passed Tuesday.
Published On: July 5, 2017 08:47 AM NPT By: Associated Press
SEOUL, July 5: Grinning broadly, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delighted in the global furor created by his nation's first launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, vowing Wednesday to never abandon nuclear weapons and to keep sending Washington more "gift packages" of missile and atomic tests.
Published On: July 5, 2017 08:35 AM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, July 5: Novak Djokovic's first-round match at Wimbledon lasted all of 40 minutes Tuesday. Roger Federer's, which was next in the All England Club's main stadium, went 43.
Published On: July 4, 2017 05:54 PM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July 4: President Donald Trump criticized North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after that country's latest missile launch, asking, "Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?"
Published On: July 4, 2017 03:56 PM NPT By: Associated Press
A scientific paper published Monday found that women who produce higher-than-normal amounts of testosterone have up to a 4.5 percent advantage over their competition on the track, evidence the sport's governing body will use to potentially sideline Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya and others with so-called intersex conditions.
Published On: July 4, 2017 03:14 PM NPT By: Associated Press
DHAKA, July 4: A boiler explosion at a garment factory in Bangladesh owned by export-oriented Multifabs Ltd. has killed 10 people and injured 50, officials said Tuesday.
Published On: July 4, 2017 02:04 PM NPT By: Associated Press
COLOMBO, July 4: Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 225 people and infecting more than 76,000 this year.
Published On: July 4, 2017 02:01 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, July 4: When Victoria Azarenka got going, she got going good. The two-time Australian Open champion was playing for only the third time since giving birth in December, and despite a slow beginning, she managed to beat CiCi Bellis 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 Monday in the first round at Wimbledon.
Published On: July 4, 2017 01:56 PM NPT By: Associated Press
SEOUL, July 4: North Korea claimed to have tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile in a launch Tuesday, a potential game-changing development in its push to militarily challenge Washington — but a declaration that conflicts with earlier South Korean and U.S. assessments that it had an intermediate range.
Published On: July 4, 2017 07:00 AM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July 4: Whether by whim or design, President Donald Trump keeps adding fuel to his incendiary Twitter battle against the media. The press is an easy target for the Republican president, and one his supporters love to hate.
Published On: July 3, 2017 05:49 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BERLIN, July 3: Eighteen people are feared dead after a bus carrying a group of German senior citizens crashed into a truck on a highway in Bavaria early Monday and burst into flames, police said.
Published On: July 3, 2017 04:45 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, July 3: Chinese President Xi Jinping warned President Donald Trump on Monday that "some negative factors" are hurting U.S.-China relations, as tensions flare anew over a slew of long-standing sore points.
Published On: July 3, 2017 09:03 AM NPT By: Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, July 3: Germany’s experimental young side overcame street-wise Chile to win a bruising Confederations Cup final 1-0 on Sunday, vindicating Joachim Loew’s decision to leave most of his world champions at home.
Published On: July 2, 2017 05:57 PM NPT By: Associated Press
MOSCOW, July 2: Russian officials say at least 14 people have been killed after a bus caught fire following a nighttime collision with a truck that was being towed and six other people have been killed in separate road accidents.
Published On: July 2, 2017 05:52 PM NPT By: Associated Press
GALLE, Sri Lanka, July 2: Spinner Lakshan Sandakan took four wickets and his partner Hasaranga de Silva took a hat-trick on debut as Sri Lanka thrashed Zimbabwe by seven wickets in the second one-day international to level the five-match series 1-1 on Sunday.
Published On: July 2, 2017 05:46 PM NPT By: Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea, July 2: Samsung Electronics said Sunday its recalled Galaxy Note 7 phones will be recycled and sold starting this week in South Korea.
Published On: July 2, 2017 03:33 PM NPT By: Associated Press
DAMASCUS, July 2: A series of car bomb explosions rocked Syria’s capital Sunday, killing at least eight people and wounding 12, as officials claimed to have foiled a plot to target crowded areas during the first morning commute after a Muslim holiday.
Published On: July 2, 2017 01:05 PM NPT By: Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 2: The 28-year-old Illinois man charged with kidnapping a Chinese scholar now believed to be dead was among a select few admitted to the University of Illinois’ highly competitive physics graduate program in 2013.
Published On: July 2, 2017 12:52 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BRIDGEWATER, July 2: President Donald Trump escalated an intensely personal feud with two high-profile talk show hosts Saturday, suggesting without evidence that their network is biased against him.
Published On: July 1, 2017 08:10 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, July 1: Police said 17 people were hurt in a shooting early Saturday after a dispute at a downtown Little Rock nightclub. The city’s police chief said officers suspect multiple people fired weapons but that the incident was not terror-related.