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  Thousands demands early summoning of Sri Lankan parliament

  October 30, 2018 17:30 IST

  Thousands of Sri Lankans have marched in the capital to demand the president immediately convene Parliament to resolve a deepening political crisis following his sacking of the prime minister

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  Israel holds municipal vote, Jerusalem chooses new mayor

  October 30, 2018 17:15 IST

  Israelis are voting in for municipal elections across the country, Jerusalem choosing new mayor

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  Maldives court suspends jail term for ex-President Nasheed

  October 30, 2018 17:15 IST

  The Maldives Supreme Court has suspended a 13-year jail sentence given to the country's exiled former president until it reviews his conviction as requested by the prosecutor general

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  UK's May denies good-news budget signals an early election

  October 30, 2018 17:15 IST

  British Prime Minister Theresa May says this week's austerity-easing budget does not signal an impending election

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  US group denounces Yemeni rebels' prosecution of Baha'is

  October 30, 2018 16:45 IST

  US commission denounces Yemen's Shiite rebels for charging 24 Baha'is, including women and a teenager, with espionage

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  War crimes court's prosecutor on his first visit to Kosovo

  October 30, 2018 16:45 IST

  U.S. prosecutor Jack Smith, who heads the special prosecutor's office of a court established to prosecute crimes committed during and immediately after Kosovo's 1998-1999 war for independence, is on his first visit to Kosovo

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  The Dead Sea Scrolls are a priceless link to the Bible's past

  October 30, 2018 16:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniel Falk, Pennsylvania State University(THE CONVERSATION) The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has removed five Dead Sea Scrolls from exhibits after tests confirmed these fragments were not from ancient biblical scrolls but forgeries.Over the last decade, the Green family, owners of the craft-supply chain Hobby Lobby, has paid millions of dollars for fragments of the Dead

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  Bombs are part of American political history

  October 30, 2018 16:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Keith Brown, Arizona State University(THE CONVERSATION) The bombs allegedly sent by a passionate Trump supporter to prominent liberals last week are a reminder that American history is littered with violence, with both the left and right pursuing political ends with explosives.I’m a scholar who has researched conflict and its aftermath. From labor and anarchist unrest in the late

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  Will it be a blue wave -- or a whimper? Here's what the evidence says for the 2018 House midterm elections

  October 30, 2018 16:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniel Palazzolo, University of Richmond(THE CONVERSATION) “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary,” wrote James Madison in the Federalist Paper #51. Lacking angels, Madison asserted that elections were one of the U.S. Constitution’s checks on political power. “A

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  Pittsburgh's lesson: Hatred does not emerge in a vacuum

  October 30, 2018 16:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Leonard Saxe, Brandeis University(THE CONVERSATION) Fueled by virulent anti-Semitism, the Sabbath peace was shattered this past weekend when 11 members of the Pittsburgh Jewish community were murdered in a synagogue where they had gathered to celebrate a birth, to pray and to study.As a scholar who studies the Jewish community and has close ties to Pittsburgh, the tragedy feels very

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  Where sexes come by the thousands

  October 30, 2018 16:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University(THE CONVERSATION) By the end of every spring semester, students in my introductory biology course at Vanderbilt University have become quite familiar with natural variation in human sex chromosomes. They know, for example, that most females have two X chromosomes and most males have one X and one Y chromosome. But in every thousand humans, there

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  Illuminating the 'dark web'

  October 30, 2018 16:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert Gehl, University of Utah(THE CONVERSATION) In the wake of recent violent events in the U.S., many people are expressing concern about the tone and content of online communications, including talk of the “dark web.” Despite the sinister-sounding phrase, there is not just one “dark web.” The term is actually fairly technical in origin, and is often used to describe some of the

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  7 ways to teach civil discourse to students

  October 30, 2018 16:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, West Virginia University(THE CONVERSATION) If young people are to engage in democracy and society, young people need to learn how to respectfully disagree. Yet, educators often find it challenging to lead discussions on contentious issues.Based on my experience as a middle school social studies educator, I’ve discovered that there are ways teachers and

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  The soundtrack of the Sixties demanded respect, justice and equality

  October 30, 2018 16:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michael V. Drake, The Ohio State University(THE CONVERSATION) When Sly and the Family Stone released “Everyday People” at the end of 1968, it was a rallying cry after a tumultuous year of assassinations, civil unrest and a seemingly interminable war.“We got to live together,” he sang, “I am no better and neither are you.”Throughout history, artists and songwriters have expressed a

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  How Mister Rogers’ message of love might help us now

  October 30, 2018 16:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Richard Gunderman, Indiana University(THE CONVERSATION) The Pittsburgh neighborhood in which the recent horrific mass shooting took place isn’t only the home of the Tree of Life synagogue. Squirrel Hill was also Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood, the place where he lived and ultimately chose to die in his own home. The irony is bitter indeed, because Fred McFeely Rogers, the beloved

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  10 Things to Know for Today

  October 30, 2018 16:30 IST

  Among 10 Things to Know: Trump to visit Pittsburgh after synagogue massacre; Previous flight of doomed Indonesia jetliner terrified passengers; Official to AP: Pipe-bomb suspect had hit list of targets

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  Eurozone growth slows to its lowest level in 4 years

  October 30, 2018 16:15 IST

  Official figures show that economic growth across the 19-country eurozone slowed in the third quarter of the year to its slowest level for over four years

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  NATO chief: Both sides expected to behave despite drills

  October 30, 2018 16:15 IST

  NATO's secretary-general says he is "confident" that both the Western military alliance and Russia "will act in a respectable way" as the two sides hold drills in the same area in waters off Norway's coast

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  Turkey's Erdogan threatens new push against Syrian Kurds

  October 30, 2018 16:15 IST

  Turkey's emboldened Erdogan threatens new push against Syrian Kurds east of the Euphrates

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  Former Audi CEO to be released, over 4 months after arrest

  October 30, 2018 16:15 IST

  A German court has ordered the release of former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler, more than four months after he was arrested in an investigation into the manipulation of diesel emissions controls

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  Nintendo quarterly profit up on Switch console, game sales

  October 30, 2018 16:15 IST

  Nintendo Co sees 12 percent gain in net profit on healthy Switch console sales

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  Saudi ties to US colleges come under mounting scrutiny

  October 30, 2018 16:00 IST

  While some U.S. colleges rethink their ties to Saudi Arabia, many more have shown no signs of backing away

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  Jewish refugee agency in spotlight after synagogue shooting

  October 30, 2018 16:00 IST

  A Jewish resettlement agency the suspected synagogue shooter apparently ranted about before the mass killing is far from household name, but it has been on the radar of right-wing extremists

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  Actress accuses Geoffrey Rush of touching her breast

  October 30, 2018 15:45 IST

  The actress at the center of Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush's defamation trial has told a Sydney court that he deliberately touched the side of her breast in a Shakespearean stage scene in which her character lay dead on the ground

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  Russia's aircraft carrier is damaged in upgrade accident

  October 30, 2018 15:30 IST

  A Russian official says one person is missing and four have been injured in an accident that damaged Russia's only aircraft carrier

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  Tokyo Olympic minister promises transparency on spending

  October 30, 2018 15:30 IST

  The minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympics says national government spending on the event is billions less than a recent national government audit showed

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  World shares mixed on worries over more US tariffs

  October 30, 2018 15:30 IST

  World markets mixed on worries over prospect of more US tariffs

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  China warns citizens against using marijuana in Canada

  October 30, 2018 15:15 IST

  China has become the latest Asian country to warn its citizens in Canada about marijuana after its sale was legalized for recreational use