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Vietnam minibus crash kills groom and 12 wedding guests
Published On: July 30, 2018 09:57 AM NPT By: Reuters
HANOI, July 30: Thirteen people were killed and four injured when a minibus carrying guests on the way to a wedding in central Vietnam collided head-on with a large container truck on Monday, the government said in a statement.
UPDATE: Woman, her two great-grandchildren found dead in California fire
Published On: July 29, 2018 11:31 AM NPT By: Reuters
REDDING, July 29: Human remains believed to be that of a missing elderly woman and her two great-grandchildren were found at a home destroyed by a monster wildfire raging in Northern California, officials said on Saturday, raising the death toll from the blaze to five.
Cristiano Ronaldo fined 3.2 million euro in tax evasion case
Published On: July 28, 2018 07:01 PM NPT By: Reuters
MADRID, July 28: Cristiano Ronaldo will be fined 3.2 million euros (2.82 million pounds)and sentenced to 24 months in prison, a sentence he is unlikely to serve, after settling a tax evasion case with Spanish tax authorities, the prosecutor said on Friday.
Kristen Stewart to star in new, female-directed 'Charlie's Angels'
Published On: July 28, 2018 06:51 PM NPT By: Reuters
LOS ANGELES, July 28: “Charlie’s Angels” are returning to the big screen next year for a third outing, this time with a female director and a multi-racial trio of women led by Kristen Stewart.
Facebook suspends U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
Published On: July 28, 2018 02:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from Facebook for bullying and hate speech and is close to having pages tied to him and his Infowars website removed from the platform, the social media network said on Friday.
Most children, parents separated at U.S.-Mexican border reunited: court filing
Published On: July 27, 2018 12:00 PM NPT By: Reuters
UNITED STATES, July 27: About 1,400 children of some 2,500 separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexican border have been reunited with their families, the U.S. government said in a court filing on Thursday.
Best of Tour de France (Photo Feature)
Published On: July 27, 2018 10:56 AM NPT By: Reuters
Best of Tour de France, 2018.
Ronaldo, Messi and Mbappe on FIFA player of the year shortlist
Published On: July 25, 2018 12:29 PM NPT By: Reuters
July 25: France’s World Cup star Kylian Mbappe joined regulars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on the shortlist for The Best FIFA Men’s player award, world soccer’s governing body announced on Tuesday.
With titles, a million slum dwellers in India's Odisha become home owners
Published On: July 24, 2018 12:00 PM NPT By: Reuters
INDIA, July 24: Every year, Neelabeni and her family await the monsoon with trepidation in their mud-and-brick home in an informal settlement near the coast in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.
Pakistan's Imran Khan seeks election win over jailed ex-PM's party
Published On: July 24, 2018 10:00 AM NPT By: Reuters
ISLAMABAD, July 24: Cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan is hoping to become Pakistan’s prime minister after 20 years of being dismissed at the polls, as the country prepares to vote in a tense election pitting him against the party of jailed ex-premier Nawaz Sharif.
Israel's LGBT community protests for fathers' surrogacy rights
Published On: July 22, 2018 04:05 PM NPT By: Reuters
JERUSALEM, July 22: Israel’s LGBT community launched a one-day strike on Sunday, blocking a main thoroughfare in Tel Aviv, in protest over the exclusion of gay men from surrogacy legislation passed last week.
Iran's Rouhani warns Trump 'war with Iran mother of all wars'
Published On: July 22, 2018 02:20 PM NPT By: Reuters
DUBAI, July 25: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday cautioned U.S. President Donald Trump about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, saying “America should know ... war with Iran is the mother of all wars,” the state new agency IRNA reported.
Africa looks for answers after disastrous World Cup
Published On: July 21, 2018 04:39 PM NPT By: Reuters
RABAT. July 21: African football will conduct a soul-searching session at a two-day symposium in Morocco after all five of the continent’s sides failed to get over the first hurdle at the World Cup.
Israel, Hamas agree to restore calm in Gaza: Hamas
Published On: July 21, 2018 03:06 PM NPT By: Reuters
GAZA , July 21: Hamas said on Saturday it had agreed a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, a day after clashes killed an Israeli soldier and four Palestinians along the volatile border.
U.N. calls for safe passage for 140,000 trapped in southwest Syria
Published On: July 20, 2018 03:55 PM NPT By: Reuters
GENEVA, July 20: The United Nations refugee agency appealed to all sides in Syria on Friday to provide safe passage for 140,000 civilians displaced by fighting in the southwest so that they can receive aid and shelter.
Fabregas begs Hazard to stay at Chelsea
Published On: July 20, 2018 03:45 PM NPT By: Reuters
MELBOURNE, July 20: Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas has urged team mate Eden Hazard not to leave the Premier League club amid reports that the Belgium forward is bound for Real Madrid.
Trump invites Putin to Washington despite U.S. uproar over Helsinki summit
Published On: July 20, 2018 10:28 AM NPT By: Reuters
WASHINGTON, July 20: President Donald Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington this autumn, the White House said on Thursday, a daring rebuttal to the torrent of criticism in the United States over Trump’s failure to publicly confront Putin at their first summit for Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 election.
Kurt Cobain's daughter says time for U.S. to get over mental health taboo
Published On: July 18, 2018 11:48 AM NPT By: Reuters
DUBLIN, July 18: Kurt Cobain’s daughter said on Tuesday the United States should overcome its taboo about mental health and addiction almost a quarter of century after her rock star father took his own life.
Trump sits down with Putin after denouncing past U.S. policy on Russia
Published On: July 16, 2018 05:15 PM NPT By: Reuters
HELSINKI, July 16: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin arrived at the presidential palace in Finland for a long-awaited summit on Monday after Trump blamed Washington’s own past “foolishness and stupidity” for bad relations.
Over a billion people struggle to stay cool as Earth warms
Published On: July 16, 2018 01:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
Heat stress linked to climate change likely to cause 38,000 extra deaths a year
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