Photo: Residents carry a body bag containing the body of a tsunami victim in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018. Palu, Sept 29 : Indonesian television and other media, citing disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, says the death toll from the Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami has jumped to 384. The figure is from the hard-hit city of ...

  Boris Johnson has repeatedly refused to rule out challenging Theresa May for the Tory leadership as he warned of “political and economic disaster” if she stuck by her Brexit strategy. Asked four times by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg to rule out a challenge, the ex-foreign secretary said: “My job is to speak up for what I believe in.”  Mrs ...

President Donald Trump has ordered an FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against his nominee for the US Supreme Court. A Senate committee earlier voted to approve Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the top US court.   But a Republican member only backed the move on the understanding that such an inquiry would occur.   As a result, a full Senate ...

Syria’s official news agency says the Nasseeb border crossing on the Syrian-Jordanian border has opened and the movement of trucks and transit across the border has begun. SANA, quoting the Syrian Transport Ministry, says the crossing was reopened Saturday.   Syrian troops captured the crossing in July after rebels reached an agreement with Russian mediators to end the violence in ...

Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians, two of them children, and wounded dozens more, Palestinian health officials said, in the deadliest day in recent weeks as Gaza’s Hamas rulers stepped up protests along the border fence. Thousands of Palestinians gathered Friday at five locations along Gaza Strip’s frontier with Israel in response to calls by Hamas, the militant group that has ...

Almost 50 people have been confirmed dead after a strong tsunami triggered by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit a coastal Indonesian city on Friday. Waves of up to 2m (6.6ft) high swept through Palu on Sulawesi island.   Video on social media shows people screaming and fleeing in panic and a mosque amongst the buildings damaged.   Last month, a ...

The US military has suffered the first crash in its hugely expensive F-35 fighter jet programme. A F-35B jet came down in South Carolina, the Marine Corps said. The pilot managed to safely eject and there were no injuries.   The Marines said in a statement that an investigation into the cause of the crash is underway.   The F-35 ...

Space station astronauts have received a special delivery from a Japanese capsule named White Stork.   The cargo ship known as Kounotori in Japanese arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, five days after liftoff. It’s the seventh Japanese shipment and the first in two years.  Commander Andrew Feustel (FOY-stull) used a robot arm to capture the White Stork. ...

In an instructional television program about table tennis on the state-run sports channel, every ball, paddle and shirt bear the logo of “Naegohyang,” one of North Korea’s most recognizable brands. A documentary about the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital ends with new mothers being handed smartly packaged disposable diapers — with the local brand featured prominently. Has North Korea discovered the art ...

New York, Sept 28 : Facebook on Friday said it recently discovered a security breach affecting nearly 50 million user accounts. The hack is the latest setback for Facebook during a year of tumult for the global social media service. In a blog post , the company says hackers exploited its “View As” feature, which lets people see what their ...