Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has announced her resignation from the cabinet. Her move came as new Prime Minister Scott Morrison prepares to announce his new cabinet after winning a bruising leadership contest on Friday.   Ms Bishop said she had not yet decided whether to stand at the next general election, due in 2019.   She had sought the ...

At least 15 people were killed and 27 others were injured in a bus accident on Saturday in Bulgaria, the country’s Minister of Health Kiril Ananiev told reporters. According to the Interior Ministry, the accident took place around 5:10 p.m. (1510 GMT) local time in the Iskar Gorge near the town of Svoge, some 40 km north of Sofia, when ...

Flash floods have killed at least 11 people in the remote eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday. Deputy governor Gul Mohammad told Anadolu Agency over phone that the floods caused by torrential rains have caused damage in the Ghazi Abad district of the province. He confirmed 11 people, including eight members of a single family, were killed ...

Senator John McCain, the Vietnam war hero turned senator and presidential candidate, has died aged 81. Mr McCain died on Saturday surrounded by his family, according to a short statement released by his office.   He was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour in July 2017 and had been undergoing medical treatment.   His family announced Mr McCain, who left ...

By Taslim Ahammad: Managing manpower includes the unique understanding of different work and communication styles, as well as different personality types. Manpower Planning which is also called as Human Resource Planning consists of putting right number of people, right kind of people at the right place, right time, doing the right things for which they are suited for the achievement ...

Ramallah, Aug 25 : Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ spokesman says the U.S. decision to cut more than $200 million in aid is meant to force the Palestinians to abandon their claim to Jerusalem. Nabil Abu Rdeneh tells The Associated Press on Saturday the move is part of continuing political and financial pressure on the Palestinian leadership. He says the Americans ...

Sanaa, Aug 25 : A senior al-Qaida leader was killed in Yemen’s central province of Marib while fighting alongside the government forces battling Shiite rebels, officials and tribal leaders said Saturday. Ghalib al-Zaidi’s death came a week ago in an exchange of fire during clashes with the rebels, known as Houthis, in the Sirwah district of Marib, they told The ...

Disruption and cancellations across north of England as two-thirds of services cut People heading to Manchester Pride, Creamfields in Warrington and Leeds festival face disrupted weekend rail services across the north-west. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union at Northern rail are walking out for 24 hours on Saturday, and the company said it would operate fewer than a ...

Rome, Aug 25 : The United Nations’ refugee agency is imploring European Union countries to take responsibility for 150 migrants stranded aboard an Italian coast guard ship and urging Italy to let the migrants off the ship immediately. The Diciotti rescued the migrants from a trafficker’s boat on Aug. 16. The ship has been docked in Sicily for days, and ...

Kabul, Aug 25 : At least two people were killed and four others wounded Saturday when a suicide bomber detonated his vest full of explosives near the office of the Election Commission in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the wounded were brought to the regional hospital in the capital city Jalalabad with ...