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NCAA Tournament 2018, Arizona State vs Syracuse

The victor will play Xavier, the top-seeded team in the West Regional, on Friday in Nashville, Tenn. The experience Shannon Evans and his Arizona State te...

BJP moves EC against Congress' Rajya Sabha nominee in Gujarat

Returning officer for the election said, "All the nominations will be scrutinised and cleared by Tuesday afternoon". "We have informed the Election Commission...

Turkish private jet crashes in Iran; all 11 aboard killed

Eight passengers and three crew members died in the crash. The Instagram star Mina Basaran was one of 11 people killed in a private-jet crash in Iran on Sun...

Facebook bans Britain First as free speech row erupts on Twitter

Just over a year ago, after a story from Buzzfeed News challenged the company for taking money from Britain First to promote anti-Muslim content, Facebook sa...

Time to turn Brexit speeches into treaties, EU's Juncker says

For us, this is not an Irish issue. Any less comprehensive free-trade agreement in lieu of customs union membership would carry the risk of logistical bottlen...

Russian exile Glushkov in mystery death in London

Nikolai Glushkov's death comes amid heightened concern following a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in England and as the government said it would inv...

Afghan forces battle Taliban fighters in Farah province

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani two weeks ago extended a new peace offer to the militant group. "The [Taliban] fighters attacked the district offices early in...

Palestinian PM Hamdallah survives Gaza bomb attack

Hamdallah immediately returned to the West Bank after delivering the speech. While Hamas did hand over control of Gaza's borders to the PA, it maintains f...

NC man arrested in connection 32-year-old cold case murder

Tracy refused and started walking. The investigation revealed that when Tracy left the party, instead of going home she walked to the Cumberland Farms. "Techn...

India Grounds Airbus Planes With Troubled Pratt & Whitney Engines

To be sure, only a handful of A-320 Neos in IndiGo and GoAir fleets have this specific series of PW engine. The Airbus A320 Neo plane had 186 passengers on bo...

Harvick gets third straight Cup win

Tony Stewart says that Stewart-Haas Racing will not appeal the penalty to Kevin Harvick's team from last weekend's Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. "It's ...

Republicans end House committee's Russian Federation probe, claiming 'no evidence of collusion'

Mr Conaway, the Texas Republican who has led the yearlong probe, announced on Monday that the House committee had finished interviewing witnesses and planned to...

Binghamton University student from Westbury killed

Kevin Paredes/Photo Editor Police sit outside 23 Oak St.in the City of Binghamton's West Side on Friday evening. Binghamton Police Detectives are continuing t...

French President Macron takes dig at Trump for leaving Paris accord

These nations will also facilitate joint "research and development" efforts among member states and other stakeholders to develop appropriate business models, c...

Northeast preps for 3rd winter storm in the past 10 days

A winter storm watch is in effect for most of New England, parts of NY and Virginia. Another snowfall is set to hit the county Monday afternoon but forecaster...

Palestinian shot dead by Israeli army in West Bank clash

A young Palestinian was shot in the chest and later died after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. As soldiers arrived, "a riot w...

John Cena in action, HUGE WrestleMania matches to be decided

This is a match many fans have wanted to see in WWE following on from their incredible match in NJPW when they faced off at Wrestle Kingdom. For those who c...

Florida nightclub under investigation after woman rode white horse into crowd

Mayor Dan Gelber praised the revocation of the club's business license, saying, "Animal cruelty is an abhorrent and vile act". Colleen O'Brien, Vice Preside...

Trump rolling out big trade tariffs, sparing Canada, Mexico

Trump signed a 25 percent import tariff on steel and a 10 percent one on aluminum on Thursday, saying it was for both economic and national security. The Repub...

EU's Malmstrom says tariffs not way to solve overcapacity in steel sector

It intends to hit a range of United States goods with punitive tariffs in retaliation should the bloc face the United States import taxes. Japan, he said, wou...

Centre Assures Full Support To New BJP Government In Tripura: PM Modi

They have anubhav, we have umang and utsah. Shah also said development would be ushered in northeast at a very fast pace after the Modi government assumed offic...

North Must Start Disarming Before Trump Will Meet Kim: White House

During the briefing, Sanders repeatedly asserted that North Korea had "promised" to denuclearize and said the meeting would not take place until that proc...

Officer Wounded In Shooting In Pomona, Suspect At Large

The shooter, who has not been identified, remains barricaded inside the apartment and the scene is active, the captain said. He added the second officer wound...

Student arrested following threat at Wellington High School

It was not identified if the boy, who was heard talking about guns in another conversation, made a joke or an intentional threat. "The matter is being handled...

Putin heaps praise on Trump, pans United States politics

Four American senators submitted a letter addressed to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday, urging him to hold talks with Russian Federation on stra...

Medical Group Says More Than 1000 Dead In Eastern Ghouta

Alloush's group is the largest in eastern Ghouta and controls Douma. The horrendous Syrian civil war has caused over 400,000 deaths in seven years, according ...

Hostage situation, shots fired at California veterans home

Napa County Sheriff John Robertson said the gunman is holding two or three people hostage. Sources tell KTVU one of the remaining hostages is the executive d...

Second Earthquake Kills at Least 18 in Papua New Guinea

A Church Partnership Program has brought together members of the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea , the Baptist Union of Papua New Guinea , the Catholic Ch...

Countdown Begins for Chinese Space Station to Plummet to Earth

The European Space Agency says the module will descend between the 24th of March and 19th of April. "It's been monitored by amateur satellite trackers, this c...

Budget deal reached, session extension looms

Republicans are split on whether to expand Medicaid in Virginia, one of 18 states that have rejected expanding the health care program for the poor under for...

Global oil supply 'will match demand until 2020'

The IEA forecast firmly puts U.S. in the driver's seat in driving global oil production . U.S. supplies will dominate oil markets for years to come, satisfy...

Syama Prasad Statue vandalism: Clash erupts between BJP, Trinamool Congress

The protestors condemned the defacing of the statue and demanded stern action against the guilty. The Prime Minister spoke to the Home Minister in this regard...

Bomb planted on London tube created to cause 'carnage'

It was delivered to him on August 30, and the following day Hassan collected the substance from the Thornton Heath address. The attack was one in a series of ...

After Lenin's in Tripura, Periyar's statue vandalised in Tamil Nadu

On Wednesday, Modi "strongly condemned" the vandalism of statues in many states triggered by razing of Communist hero Lenin's statue in Tripura on Monda...

Runoff for county judge coming May 22

In fact, despite longstanding expectations of Texas becoming a so-called purple state, Democrats have not won a statewide office there since 1994. Here is a...