Miami, Aug 17 : An Alaska man faces a life prison sentence in the January 2017 Florida airport shooting that left five people dead and six wounded. Sentencing is set Friday for 28-year-old Esteban Santiago, who pleaded guilty in May to 11 charges in a plea deal in which prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty. Santiago, of Anchorage, ...

        Pope Francis is on the side of victims of more than 300 “predator” priests in the United States who are accused of abusing over 1,000 children across seven decades, the Vatican said Thursday. “Victims should know that the pope is on their side,” the Vatican said in a statement after a devastating US grand jury report ...

In January 2014 Bangladesh was the first country in South Asia to introduce any genetically modified (GM) food crop in the region. In little over four years’ time nearly a fifth of Bangladeshi brinjal farmers are now cultivating – Bt brinjal – a GM eggplant, making it one of the fastest adopted biotech crops ever, reports UNB.   After October, ...

The plane sits on the grassy portion of the runway of Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Photo, collected) A XiamenAir plane had a rough landing Thursday at Manila International Airport when it skidded off the runway. AirLive shared photos on social media of the Boeing 737’s “crash landing,” claiming the engine detached from the left wing. The plane can be ...

Rescue workers use helicopters and boats to evacuate hundreds of people stranded on their home rooftops following unprecedented flooding in the southern Indian state of Kerala where more than 160 people have died. With torrential rains stopping on Friday, thousands of rescuers worked quickly to shift the marooned people to 1,200 state-run camps where more than 150,000 people already have ...

Schools and offices in Delhi, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Bihar will be closed as a Former prime minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee. File photo New Delhi, Aug 17 : A seven-day state mourning has been announced by the central government as a mark of respect to former prime minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee who died after prolonged illness at AIIMS in ...

Bogota, Aug 17 : U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says the Taliban’s deadly assault on the Afghan city of Ghazni is the kind of violence the insurgents are likely to repeat in the run up to parliamentary elections scheduled for October. In his most detailed comments on Ghazni since the assault was launched Aug. 10, Mattis said the Taliban had ...

Las Vegas, Aug 17 : Attorneys for a group of victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting harshly criticized MGM Resorts International this week over its legal maneuver seeking to consolidate multiple lawsuits stemming from the massacre. The victims’ attorneys in court documents filed Tuesday say the casino operator is acting with improper motives in seeking to have the cases ...

Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Photo: Collected New Delhi, Aug 16 : Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has died after a prolonged illness. He was 93. Vajpayee was a Hindu nationalist who in 1998 ordered nuclear weapons tests that stoked fears of atomic war with rival Pakistan. But he later launched a groundbreaking peace process with ...

London, Aug 16 : British police have been given more time to question the suspect in a car crash outside Parliament that injured three people. Salih Khater, a British citizen originally from Sudan, was arrested Tuesday after striking cyclists, then plowing his car into a security barrier. He is being held on suspicion of terrorism and attempted murder, but has ...