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  Al-Shabab's former No. 2 leader runs for office in Somalia

  October 30, 2018 14:45 IST

  Al-Shabab's former No. 2 leader runs for office in Somalia; defector has government in knots

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  Cypriot police rescue 17 Syrian migrants aboard boat

  October 30, 2018 14:15 IST

  Cypriot police say 17 Syrian migrants who set sail from Lebanon aboard a small craft have declared that they intend to apply for asylum on the east Mediterranean island nation

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  Rebels kill TV cameraman, 2 policemen in central India

  October 30, 2018 14:15 IST

  Indian police say Maoist rebels have killed a cameraman working for a state-run television channel and two policemen in an attack in an insurgency-hit state in central India

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  Khashoggi's fiancee calls on Trump to prevent 'cover-up'

  October 30, 2018 14:15 IST

  The fiancee of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi has called on U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders to ensure that his killing at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul is not covered up

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  Energy giant BP says 3Q earnings more than double

  October 30, 2018 13:45 IST

  Energy giant BP says third-quarter earnings more than doubled as it reaped the benefits of higher oil prices and streamlined operations

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  Honda reports rise in profit on cost cuts, healthy sales

  October 30, 2018 13:45 IST

  Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. is reporting a 21 percent jump in fiscal second quarter profit on cost cuts and healthy motorcycle sales

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  Nurse going on trial in Germany over 100 patient deaths

  October 30, 2018 13:30 IST

  A nurse serving a life sentence for two murders is going on trial on charges that he killed a further 100 patients at two hospitals in Germany

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  Actor John Jarratt appears in Sydney court on rape charge

  October 30, 2018 13:30 IST

  Australian actor John Jarratt has appeared in a Sydney court charged with raping a woman in 1976

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  Taliban: 5 freed from US military prison now in Qatar office

  October 30, 2018 13:00 IST

  Taliban says five members of Afghan Taliban who were freed from the U.S. military prison on Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured American army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl join political office in Qatar

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  Russia releases Pakistani pop singer flying around the world

  October 30, 2018 13:00 IST

  Pakistan's Foreign Ministry says pop singer Fakhre Alam, who is attempting to fly around the world in 28 days, has been released by officials in Russia after briefly detaining him upon his arrival in the country with an expired visa

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  Volkswagen keeps sales target despite certification trouble

  October 30, 2018 13:00 IST

  Volkswagen says it is sticking with its sales and profit targets for the year despite the difficulties getting new vehicles through emissions tests that made sales slump in September

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  Sony quarterly profit rises on games, financial services

  October 30, 2018 13:00 IST

  Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony Corp. has recorded a 32 percent rise in fiscal second quarter profit on its healthy video game and financial services businesses

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  Chiefs owner Hunt surprised by quick success of Mahomes

  October 30, 2018 12:30 IST

  Chiefs owner Clark Hunt says he could not have imagined the quick success of Patrick Mahomes at quarterback

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  South Sudan rebel leader Machar to return on Wednesday

  October 30, 2018 12:30 IST

  South Sudan rebel leader Machar to return on Wednesday under latest fragile peace deal

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  Colts continue to take advantage of tight end mismatches

  October 30, 2018 12:30 IST

  Frank Reich thought he could exploit the Indianapolis Colts' tight end advantage

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  South Sudan rebel leader Machar to return home on Wednesday under latest peace deal, spokesman says

  October 30, 2018 12:30 IST

  South Sudan rebel leader Machar to return home on Wednesday under latest peace deal, spokesman says

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  British woman charged with murder of her husband in Malaysia

  October 30, 2018 12:15 IST

  A British woman has been charged with murdering her husband, who was found stabbed to death at their home in Malaysia

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  Indian couple who studied engineering died in Yosemite fall

  October 30, 2018 12:00 IST

  Two people who fell to their deaths from a popular overlook at Yosemite National Park were an Indian couple who studied engineering together at college in southern India

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  Thousands of Syrians stuck in the desert risk starvation

  October 30, 2018 12:00 IST

  Tens of thousands of Syrians stranded in a desert camp near the Jordanian border are at risk of malnutrition amid dwindling humanitarian supplies

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  US West's abandoned mines hold danger and, for some, thrills

  October 30, 2018 12:00 IST

  Underneath the landscape of the U.S. West lie hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines, an underground world that can hold serious danger and unexpected wonder

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  Court orders Japan company to pay 4 Koreans for forced labor

  October 30, 2018 11:45 IST

  South Korea's Supreme Court has ruled that a Japanese steelmaker should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula

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  Previous flight of crashed Lion Air jet scared passengers

  October 30, 2018 11:45 IST

  Divers are searching for victims of the Lion Air plane crash in Indonesia and high-tech equipment was deployed to find its flight recorders as passengers on earlier flights described terrifying problems

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  Spy chief wanted ban on China telecoms from Australian 5G

  October 30, 2018 11:15 IST

  A spy chief says Australia's critical infrastructure including electricity grids and water supplies could not have been adequately safeguarded if Chinese-owned telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE Corp. had become involved in the nation's 5G network.

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  Palestinians revive calls to end security ties with Israel

  October 30, 2018 11:15 IST

  The Palestine Liberation Organization's mini-parliament has called for ending security coordination with Israeli forces in the West Bank, but says implementation is up to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

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  Tourists flee typhoon-ravaged Northern Marianas

  October 30, 2018 11:15 IST

  A super typhoon that ravaged a Pacific U.S. territory sent tourists fleeing and postponed elections as residents struggled with a power outage, destroyed homes and long lines for gasoline

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  If it's October, it must be Australia for Savannah McCaskill

  October 30, 2018 11:00 IST

  Savannah McCaskill couldn't have known her first year as a professional soccer player would take her so far afield from her college days at the University of South Carolina

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  Typhoon lashes northern Philippines as thousands evacuated

  October 30, 2018 11:00 IST

  A strong typhoon is battering the northern Philippines, where thousands of people were evacuated to avoid a repeat of the death and destruction wrought by a powerful storm last month

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  Trump visits amid divide: 'It's sacred what happened here'

  October 30, 2018 11:00 IST

  Trump is being called once again to step into the all-too-frequent role of national consoler in the wake of the worst instance of anti-Semitic violence in American history