Flight MH370 mystery: Still no answers
KUALA LUMPUR (TIP): Six months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people on board disappeared in the Indian Ocean,…
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(Update 12 minutes ago)Afghanistan gang-rape case: Death sentence for 7
KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan handed the death penalty to seven men on October 12 for raping and robbing a group of…
Read MoreMyanmar cancels planned parliamentary byelection
YANGON (TIP): Myanmar's Union Election Commission, on October 13, said that it is cancelling byelections that were scheduled for later…
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Slave girl kept in cellar
awarded $160,000 in UK court LONDON (TIP): A deaf and mute girl smuggled to Britain and kept as a slave…
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China blocks BBC website as Hong Kong tensions rise
SHANGHAI (TIP): Chinese Communist Party censors have blocked the website of Britain's national broadcaster, the BBC said in a statement,…
Read MoreJohn Grisham sorry for child porn remarks
LONDON (TIP): Novelist John Grisham apologized on October 16 for saying in an interview that many men imprisoned for child…
Read MoreTwo conscripts killed in an explosion in North Sinai
CAIRO (TIP): At least two policemen were killed and 8 others injured in an explosion in Egypt's restive Sinai peninsula,…
Read MoreNew Zealand official’s ‘Indian radio’ remark stirs race row
MELBOURNE (TIP): A New Zealand immigration official sparked a race row after rejecting a woman's visa application for a job,…
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Venezuela, New Zealand win UN security council seats but Turkey rebuffed
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela won coveted seats at the UN security council on October…
Read MoreHong Kong police move in to clear protest zone
HONG KONG (TIP): Riot police moved in on a Hong Kong pro-democracy protest zone in a dawn raid on October…
Read MoreNORTH KOREA’S KIM JONG-UN MAKES SECOND WALKING STICK-AIDED APPEARANCE
SEOUL: North Korea's state media on Friday reported another public appearance by leader Kim Jong-Un, his second in four days…
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PAK ENVOY ABDUL BASIT FAILS TO MEASURE UP TO MODI GOVT
NEW DELHI: At a time when Indo-Pak tensions are running high, Pakistan's man in Delhi, Abdul Basit, is not a…
Read MoreSri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa appoints Tamil leader as deputy minister
COLOMBO(TIP): Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today on October 10 appointed senior Tamil parliamentarian V S Radhakrishnan as a Deputy…
Read More5 AFGHAN MEN HANGED FOR GANG RAPE
KABUL (TIP): Five Afghan men were hanged on Wednesday for the gang rape of four women despite the United Nations…
Read MoreBangladesh appoints Syed Muazzem Ali as new envoy to India
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh on October 7 appointed veteran diplomat and former foreign secretary Syed Muazzem Ali as its new high…
Read MoreAnti-EU UKIP party wins first elected seat in British parliament
CLACTON-ON-SEA, ENGLAND (TIP): Britain's anti-EU UK Independence Party won its first elected seat in parliament on October 9 by a…
Read MoreSuicide car bomb kills 10 in Iraq’s Baquba
BAQUBA: A suicide car bomb blast at a police checkpoint in the Iraqi city of Baquba Thursday killed at least…
Read MoreClashes break out in Central African Republic capital
BANGUI, Central African Republic: Clashes in Central African Republic's capital have resulted in ''many casualties,'' the International Committee for the…
Read More‘Nuclear Pakistan capable of fitting reply to India’
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Nuclear Pakistan was fully capable of responding "befittingly" to Indian aggression on the LoC and the international border,…
Read MoreNepal PM Koirala free of cancer after treatment
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, who was diagnosed with first stage lung cancer and underwent radiotherapy sessions in…
Read MoreBangladesh appoints Syed Muazzem Ali as new envoy to India
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh on Monday appointed veteran diplomat and former foreign secretary Syed Muazzem Ali as its new high commissioner…
Read MorePak air strikes kill 15 militants
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 15 militants were killed on October 3 in air strikes by Pakistani military in the restive…
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TOXIC LIQUOR KILLS 17 IN PAKISTAN
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 17 people have died in the last four days after consuming toxic liquor in Pakistan's Sindh…
Read MoreHong Kong protesters call off talks with govt
BEIJING (TIP): Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters cancelled planned talks with the government on electoral reforms on October 3 after violent…
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Sweden to become first major European country to recognize state of Palestine
STOCKHOLM (TIP): Sweden's new centre-left government will recognize the state of Palestine in a move that will make it the…
Read MoreBATTLE RAGES FOR UKRAINE’S MAIN EASTERN AIRPORT
DONETSK, UKRAINE (TIP): Ukrainian forces clashed with pro-Russian insurgents for control of a strategic airport in the restive east on…
Read MoreHong Kong police arrest ‘triads’ over protest clashes
HONG KONG (TIP): Hong Kong police have arrested eight suspected members of triad criminal gangs over clashes at ongoing pro-democracy…
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Islamic State backs up force in Syria with threats, taunting calls
YUMURTALIK, TURKEY (TIP): Khaled Baki phones the number of a fellow Kurdish fighter and gets through to the Islamic State…
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SCOTLAND REFERENDUM: In a Close Vote Scotland Rejects Independence from Britain
EDINBURGH (TIP): Voters in Scotland rejected independence from Britain in a referendum that had threatened to break up a 307-year…
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ISLAMIC STATE PLOT IN AUSTRALIA RAISES QUESTIONS
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (TIP): The Islamic State plot to carry out random beheadings in Sydney alleged by police is a simple…
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