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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the Francis Crick Institute in London, Monday, July 11, 2022. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP)

Boris Johnson eyes comeback bid as UK Tories pick new leader

Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt are among the bookmakers' favourites along...

21 Oct 2022 2:55 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Liz Truss addresses the media in Downing Street in London, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. Truss says she resigns as leader of UK Conservative Party. (Photo: AP)

Liz Truss resigns as British Prime Minister

She has been in office for just 45 days - the shortest tenure of any British prime minister

20 Oct 2022 7:26 PM IST

Police block the perimeter at the scene of Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, after some explosions rocked Kyiv in the early morning. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russian 'kamikaze drones' strike Kyiv: Ukraine

The attacks come exactly a week after Russia unleashed a massive wave of missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital and...

17 Oct 2022 12:36 PM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks to the media after the Summit of leaders from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in Astana, Kazakhstan. (AP)

If NATO clashes with Russian army, it will lead to global catastrophe:...

Earlier, Putin had warned that he would use nuclear weapons to defend Russian territory after annexing four regions of...

15 Oct 2022 10:20 AM IST

Rishi Sunak & Liz Truss

Rebels plot to replace Liz Truss with Rishi Sunak amid UK crisis

It comes as a YouGov poll for the The Times found that almost half of Tory party supporters believe the party chose the...

14 Oct 2022 5:01 PM IST

Unlike the other prizes, the economics award wasnt established in Alfred Nobels will of 1895 but by the Swedish central bank in his memory. (Photo: Nobel Prize)

3 US-based economists given Nobel Prize for work on banks

The committee said their work had shown in their research why avoiding bank collapses is vital

10 Oct 2022 8:23 PM IST

A national library employee shows a gold Nobel Prize medal in Bogota, Colombia. The Nobels, with new winners announced starting Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, often concentrate on unheralded, methodical, basic science. (AP File)

Human rights champions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine win Nobel Peace...

The award will be presented at a formal ceremony in Oslo on Dec 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of the prizes'...

7 Oct 2022 3:47 PM IST

From winners who are famous to those who have been forgotten and western domination in Nobel, a list of the must knows of the Nobel prize (Representational Image)

French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature

Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announced the winner Thursday in Stockholm, Sweden

6 Oct 2022 5:25 PM IST

Indias permanent representative to UN Ruchira Kamboj (ANI)

India abstains from UN vote that condemns Russia's annexation of...

The UN security council voted on the resolutions condemning referendums in Ukraine at UNSC on Friday which were tabled...

1 Oct 2022 10:39 AM IST

The Moscow-appointed heads of Kherson region Vladimir Saldo and Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin and Lugansk separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik react after signing treaties formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy, at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 30, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

Putin signs treaties annexing Ukrainian regions

The ceremony came 3 days after completion of Kremlin-orchestrated referendums on joining Russia that were dismissed by...

30 Sept 2022 7:14 PM IST

Russia prepares to annex occupied Ukraine despite outcry

Pro-Moscow administrations of four occupied regions of southern and eastern Ukraine said that their residents voted to...

28 Sept 2022 3:39 PM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the situation in the oil and gas sector via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 14, 2022. (Photo: AP)

Military and diplomatic pressures mount on Russian President Putin

Putin vowed to press attack on Ukraine despite the military setbacks but also faced concerns by India and China over the...

18 Sept 2022 11:40 AM IST