At least eight militants were killed after the fighting aircraft targeted Taliban hideouts in Khalazai area of Baghlan-e-Markazi district in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province on Wednesday, army spokesman in the northern region Ghulam Hazrat Karimi said. Six more militants sustained injuries in the sorties, the official said.   Taliban militants who have inflicted casualties on security forces in Baghlan-e-Markazi district ...

London, Sep 12 : Leading Brexit-supporting lawmakers insisted Wednesday that they aren’t about to topple Prime Minister Theresa May, despite strong opposition to her plan for taking Britain out of the European Union. A faction of May’s Conservative Party opposes her proposal to keep the U.K. aligned to EU rules after Brexit in return for free trade in goods. They ...

By Fatema Miah: Back to Climate science. The Climate Change has been an alarming issue for last decade. Where the past century of neglegency where accumulation of carbon emission and other neglected landfill gases has been bought to addressing. Climate is biological and geological science that  also has connection to Natural Physics and Chemistry. The Climate Science is deeply interlinked ...

Labour leader wins parliamentary set-piece comfortably with peroration that was perhaps one of his best Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn start PMQs by congratulating cricketer Alastair Cook on his long career. Corbyn asks May what the National Farmers’ Union, the Federation of Small Businesses, the National Audit Office, the charity Gingerbread and the Royal Society of Arts have in common? ...

The two suspects in the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are civilians, not criminals, Russian President Vladimir Putin says. The UK government named them as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, and said they were from Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU.   Mr Putin said his government had found the pair and he hoped they would ...

Apple has given the Oval Office a run for its money in the past few weeks – we’ve had an unprecedented number of leaks ahead of the firm’s annual product launch. So, barring any surprises – a Steve Jobs-esque “one more thing” – we have a pretty good idea of what to expect when Tim Cook heads out on stage ...

Kulsoom Nawaz, the wife of former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, died of cancer in London on Tuesday as her husband remains locked up in jail in his home country following his fall from power.   Nawaz, 68, who was first lady of Pakistan three times, was diagnosed with lymphoma in August last year and had been receiving treatment at ...

Labour calls government plans to reduce size of Commons undemocratic The government has laid out its final plans for redrawing House of Commonsconstituency boundaries under a new system that probably would have turned the hung parliament of the 2017 election into a safe Conservative majority, prompting claims from Labour of an “undemocratic power grab”. The plans from the separate boundary ...

Governments are failing to tackle the crisis that causes 1,000 early deaths a day, says damning EU report Air pollution is now “the biggest environmental risk” to public health in Europe but governments are failing to adequately deal with the crisis, the EU Court of Auditors has found. Europe’s air pollution limits are “much weaker” than WHO guidelines – and ...

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has written to US President Donald Trump asking for a follow-up to their historic summit, the White House says. The US says it is already looking at scheduling a new meeting.   White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the “very warm” letter showed Pyongyang’s “continued commitment to focus on denuclearisation”.   Negotiations on the topic appeared ...