Man ties the knot with smartphone in Las Vegas

Published On: June 30, 2016 05:06 PM NPT By: PTI

LOS ANGELES, June 30: A man in the US has taken his love for smartphones to a whole new level - by marrying it in a Las Vegas ceremony, media reports said.

UN says Iraqi children 'relentlessly targeted' in war

Published On: June 30, 2016 03:26 PM NPT By: Associated Press

BAGHDAD, June 30: The U.N. children's fund warned on Thursday that 3.6 million Iraqi children are at "serious risk" of death, injury, sexual violence, abduction and recruitment into armed groups, and has called on warring parties in Iraq to protect their rights.

Suicide bomb attack kills 30 Afghan trainee police

Published On: June 30, 2016 02:56 PM NPT By: Associated Press

KABUL, (Afghanistan), June 30: An Afghan official says that a suicide bomber has attacked bus carrying trainee policemen, killing 30.

Fire in residential building kills 8 in India

Published On: June 30, 2016 10:42 AM NPT By: Associated Press

NEW DELHI, June 30: Police say a fire in a pharmacy engulfed residential quarters of a Mumbai suburban building, killing eight people.

ISTANBUL, June 29: Suicide attackers armed with guns and bombs killed 41 people and wounded scores of others at Istanbul's busy Ataturk Airport in an attack the government blamed on Islamic State extremists.

Istanbul Explosion : 36 dead, 147 injured

Published On: June 29, 2016 07:45 AM NPT By: Associated Press

ISTANBUL, June 29: Three suspected Islamic State group suicide bombers targeted the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk Airport Tuesday, killing at least 36 people and wounding many others, Turkish officials said.

India police arrest woman topper for cheating in exams

Published On: June 28, 2016 06:40 PM NPT By: AFP/RSS

NEW DELHI, June 28: Police have arrested a schoolgirl in northeast India for allegedly cheating during pressure-packed exams that saw her come top in the state in a growing scandal, a senior officer said Sunday.

JERUSALEM, June 28: Israeli police on Tuesday banned non-Muslims from a contentious Jerusalem holy site until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan following repeated clashes with Palestinians rioters.

Merkel pledges big effort to hold EU together

Published On: June 28, 2016 03:08 PM NPT By: Associated Press

BRUSSELS, June 28: Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, June 28: Police in Bahrain say they have made a series of arrests over people "misusing social media" amid an intensifying crackdown on dissent in the tiny island kingdom.