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Clocks go back tonight

It means that time is one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Despite being practiced by many, lawmakers in several states are increasingly trying to avo...

Angela Merkel says she will step down as German Chancellor in 2021

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced she will give up leadership of her center-right Christian Democrat Union (CDU) party after 18 years in the post, ...

Messages Of Solidarity From Prominent Jews Following Pittsburgh Shooting

He said political antisemitism has risen under the guise of being anti-Israel, the removal of established taboos in civil establishment, the undermining of th...

Saudi prosecutor in Istanbul for Khashoggi investigation

Top Saudi and Turkish prosecutors on Monday discussed the investigation into the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, a show of co-operation amid Turkish ...

Suspect In Custody After Multiple Casualties In Shooting At Pittsburgh Synagogue

The tree-lined residential neighbourhood of Squirrel Hill, about 10 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh , has a heavily Jewish population. Unlike many other news ...

Suspicious Package Bound For CNN Intercepted In Atlanta, CNN Reports

The Atlanta Police Department said Monday morning that they responded to a call at 9:38 AM about a suspicious package at a post office near the CNN Center. Au...

Student Dies After Being Shot By Another At School In North Carolina

Wilcox said the school system was reviewing its security procedures to determine how the student got a gun into the school. Police confirm one person was take...

Angela Merkel Will Reportedly Quit Party Leadership After Disappointing State Elections

Possible contenders include Health Minister Jens Spahn, who has publicly criticized her open-doors refugee policy and is championed by the CDU's social conserva...

Fil-Am suspect rapped for 13 bombs in mail

On September 20, in response to a Trump tweet, Sayoc posted a self-shot video of himself at what appears to be a Trump rally . Sayoc's estranged family plead...

Chicago vigil over Pittsburgh synagogue shooting decries ‘darkness and hate’

Suspect Robert Bowers faces 29 criminal counts in the attack, including 11 counts of obstruction of exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, 11 count...

At Least One Policeman Killed In Explosion Outside IEC Offices

Hajji Hamdullah Gulalai, head of one of the largest tribes in south Kandahar, complained bitterly about the chaos at polling stations, where workers were late a...

Merkel party suffers heavy losses in key regional election

The base of Germany's second major political party and the CDU's federal coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), has also shrunk by almost 11 percent s...

Khashoggi killers to be prosecuted in Saudi Arabia: Jubeir

However he later conceded that the crown prince bore ultimate responsibility for the operation against Khashoggi, saying: 'Well, the prince is running things ov...

PM Narendra Modi in Japan: key points

At 6:00 PM, the Prime Minister is scheduled to arrive at the office of his Japanese counterpart and hold delegation level talks. The two leaders discussed regio...

Pittsburgh shooting victims identified

The synagogue is located about 10 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh in a neighbourhood that is the hub of Pittsburgh's Jewish community. Fienberg was among t...

Facebook Removes Fake Accounts, Pages Linked To Iran

In terms of the reach of the posts, "about 1.02 million accounts followed at least one of these Pages, about 25,000 accounts joined at least one of these groups...

Bound Bodies Found Floating In Hudson River Identified As Missing Virginia Sisters

NY police said Rotana Farea, 22, and her 16-year-old sister Tala Farea, both of Fairfax County, Virginia, were discovered on Wednesday afternoon (Thursday NZT) ...

Rival presidential candidates vote in Brazil

Perhaps the biggest similarity and likely the one that initially gave rise to the comparisons between Bolsonaro and Trump is that neither man appears to measu...

Air quality severe in most of Delhi, Faridabad 25 times polluted

The government's Central Pollution Control Board on Friday said New Delhi's air quality had plummeted to the worst possible category. Stubble-burning is d...

Trump may revive Cold War, but China could change dynamics

Washington has cited Russia's alleged violation of the treaty as its reason for leaving it, a charge Moscow denies. "In the case of China, somewhere between o...

NYC Weather: Expect a nor’easter this weekend

Because the air will be relatively warm - weekend highs in the Northeast will be in the 40s and 50s - this nor'easter will be more about wind and rain than sn...

Koreas talk about implementing recent military agreement

The text highlighted in another section the approval of a document called the Military Domain Agreement for the Declaration Execution, dated April 27, signe...

Militia offers to help stop caravan raise concern at border

Border watch groups and militias have been patrolling the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) southern boundary off and on for more than a decade. At the same time, ...

Donald Trump invites Vladimir Putin to Washington

The U.S. president was widely criticized for appearing deferential to Putin in the Finnish capital and suggesting that he trusted the Russian leader's denials a...

Robert De Niro speaks out after bomb scare: 'People must vote!'

The devices are thought to have been fashioned from crude, bomb-making designs widely available on the Internet. The count jumped again on Friday, with suspi...

Knife-wielding woman attacks kindergarten students in China

Nearby residents said the kindergarten doesn't have any outdoor space for the children, and they have to use a local public park for their morning exercises. Ch...

FBI arrests man suspected in spree of parcel bombs

A package addressed to former Central Intelligence Agency head John Brennan and an explosive device that was sent to CNN's NY office on October 24, 2018. He...

Media Reaction to Khashoggi Assassination is 'Hysteria' - Saudi Foreign Minister

Riyadh denies the ruling royal family was involved and blames "rogue agents". Last week, the kingdom acknowledged that the killing was "premeditated". Saudi A...

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation starts largest drills since cold war, right on Russia’s doorstep

It will one of the largest military exercise held by the alliance after the Cold War as Deutsche Welle reported . Some 50,000 soldiers, 10,000 vehicles, and ...

Duchess Down Under: Meghan in Oscar de la Renta for Sydney Return

The pregnant Duchess is now on a Royal Tour alongside her husband Prince Harry on the other side of the world. Her hair was pulled back in a half-up, half-d...

Northern Marianas brace for slow recovery after typhoon

Saipan and Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands, a United States commonwealth in the western Pacific Ocean, were left shattered by Super Typhoon Yutu on Wedne...

Russia claims US led drones toward Russian base in Syria

Poseidon-8 military aircraft was loitering offshore near Syria, Fomin said, speaking at the plenary session of the Xiangshan security forum in Beijing. He added...

At least four dead, 12 shot in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

He also said such shooters should receive the death penalty and "suffer the ultimate price". Bari Weiss, a member of The New York Times editorial board, sa...

Gillum and DeSantis trade increasingly personal blows during second Florida gubernatorial debate

But, they repeatedly returned to personal attacks in the process, suggesting the race has turned into an all-out verbal brawl as the candidates enter the home...

‘Suspicious packages’ sent to former US VP Joe Biden

Local media report that the package was addressed to De Niro. Just two days earlier, CNN's offices in NY were evacuated when the package for Brennan, addres...