12-year-old Indian-origin boy wins National Geographic Bee contest
WASHINGTON Sathwik Karnik, a 12-year-old son of Indian immigrants, cruised to victory Wednesday in the 2013 National Geographic Bee, nailing ...
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Switching from scandals, Obama speech to focus on drones and Guantanamo
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will seek to draw attention away from a series of domestic scandals with a speech on ...
Willing to take China’s advice to start talks, North Korea says
BEIJING North Korea is willing to take China‘s advice and enter into talks, Chinese state television cited an envoy of ...
80-year-old Japanese octogenarian Yuichiro Miura becomes oldest persons to scale Mount Everest
KATHMANDU An 80-year-old Japanese national today set a new world record by becoming the oldest climber to reach the summit ...
Police say one of the London attackers is British-born of Nigerian descent
LONDON One of the attackers, who hacked a soldier to death in London, was British-born and of Nigerian descent, a ...
UK emergency committee meets after London attack; we will never buckle, says Cameron
LONDON The British government’s emergency committee is set to meet on Thursday after two attackers butchered a man in a ...
FBI says man shot dead while being questioned about Boston bombings
FLORIDA An FBI agent shot and killed a man of Chechen origin who turned violent while being questioned on Wednesday ...
Brutal attack on British ‘soldier’ raises terrorism fears in London
LONDON Two men with butcher knives hacked a man to death on Wednesday near a London military barrack and one of ...
Mahatma Gandhi’s personal effects, documents fetch over 300,000 pounds
LONDON Mahatma Gandhi‘s personal effects and documents, including his prayer beads, blood sample, leather chappals and the iconic leader‘s last ...
Oklahoma tornado damage could top $2 billion
MOORE (OKLAHOMA) The cost of a massive tornado that battered an Oklahoma City suburb could be more than $2 billion, ...
Pope Francis urges China’s Catholics to stay loyal to Rome
ROME Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Catholics in China to remain loyal to the Vatican, whose authority is challenged by ...
US senators agree to expansion of high-tech visas
WASHINGTON Leading senators working to resolve a key issue on U.S. immigration legislation have agreed to a compromise covering expansion ...
Barack Obama pledges all necessary help for storm-hit Oklahoma
WASHINGTON US President Barack Obama on Tuesday offered condolences for the victims of a deadly tornado in Oklahoma and pledged ...
Power of Oklahoma tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb
WASHINGTON Everything had to come together just perfectly to create the killer tornado in Moore, Okla.: wind speed, moisture in ...
We were in a relationship: Phaneesh Murthy
BANGALORE A day after being sacked from his position as iGate CEO, Phaneesh Murthy claimed on Tuesday that he was ...
Mahatma Gandhi blood sample up for auction in London
LONDON Two microscope slides bearing the blood of former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi are to go on sale in London ...
Barack Obama to take first major Africa trip in late June
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will leave on a first African tour next month, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but ...
Series of attacks kill at least 95 in Iraq
BAGHDAD A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials ...
Monster tornado rips apart Oklahoma; at least 91 dead
MOORE, OKLAHOMA The death toll from a massive tornado that swept through a US suburb of Oklahoma City has risen ...
Opportunity breaks NASA’s 40-year roving record
WASHINGTON NASA‘s legendary Opportunity rover has broken a 40-year-old extraterrestrial distance record after nine years of hard Mars exploration. The ...
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