Mattis' comments came days after Mike Pence announced ambitious plans to create a sixth, separate US military warfighting service by 2020.
15 Aug 2018 12:38 PM
Caucher Birkar, a Kurdish refugee teaching at Cambridge University, won the Fields Medal, often called the ‘Nobel Prize of mathematics'.
02 Aug 2018 3:52 PM
Abortion is illegal in Brazil, home to the world's largest Catholic community, except when pregnancy is due to rape.
22 Nov 2017 5:10 PM
The video was filmed by artist’s friend Ronildo Moreira de Araujo while Wesley was seen scribing teens forehead.
12 Jun 2017 9:25 PM
They demanded an early vote, if Temer resigns or is forced out, rather than letting Congress choose his replacement.
29 May 2017 1:08 PM
The Supreme Federal Tribunal opened an investigation into the accusations and lifted the seal on the recording.
19 May 2017 12:06 PM
Police believed De Souza had planned her abduction and murder along with eight others.
26 Apr 2017 8:18 PM
Amiridis’s charred body was found Thursday in Rio in his burned-out rental car.
01 Jan 2017 6:50 AM
Amiridis's charred body was found Thursday in Rio in his burned-out rental car, a day after his wife declared him missing.
31 Dec 2016 9:10 AM
People pay their last respects to Brazil’s 1970 World Cup winning football team skipper, Carlos Alberto Torres, at the Irajá cemetery in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. Alberto died on Tuesday aged 72. (Photo: AFP )
28 Oct 2016 1:35 AM
Eight inmates were killed and burned on Monday in a fresh prison riot in Brazil, police said, a day after clashes between rival factions in another jail left 25 detainees dead.
18 Oct 2016 7:00 AM
USA’s Regas Woods competes in the men’s long jump T42 final at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)
19 Sep 2016 12:14 AM
Oscar Pistorius is gone and so far there’s been no replacement for the first athlete to compete in both the Paralympics and Olympics. But it’s probably only a matter of time.
17 Sep 2016 2:18 AM
Dwarfs at the Rio Paralympics are getting the big stage they say they deserve.
15 Sep 2016 11:21 PM
Javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia scripted history by becoming the first Indian to clinch two gold medals at the Paralympic Games, after he broke his own world record to clinch top honours here.
15 Sep 2016 1:11 AM
The first Indian woman to clinch a Paralympic medal, Deepa Malik says her F-53 shot put silver is a result of being daring enough to dream.
14 Sep 2016 7:13 AM
India’s Deepa Malik on Monday created history by becoming the country’s first-ever woman athlete to win a medal at the Paralympic Games when she bagged a silver in the shotput F-53 event here.
13 Sep 2016 5:41 AM
Brazilian Paralympic swimmer Clodoaldo Silva lights the cauldron during the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games. (Photo: AFP)
09 Sep 2016 2:27 AM
Brazilian police charged American swimmer Ryan Lochte with filing a false robbery report over an incident during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
27 Aug 2016 2:13 AM
Just two weeks ago Neymar’s commitment to the Olympic team was questioned by Brazil’s fans.
27 Aug 2016 1:36 AM