Washington: A former Indian-American aide to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is being probed for allegedly accepting over payments from the State Department while working for the then US secretary of state, media reported on Tuesday.Huma Abedin worked as a full time staffer for…

The Middle East is trapped under a brutal “heat dome” that has brought apocalyptic weather and a heat index that makes it feel like 164 degrees in one Iranian city.For more than a week, Iran and Iraq have endured scorching temperatures, prompting Baghdad to…

Malaysian officials said Sunday that they would seek help from territories near the island where a suspected piece of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was discovered to try to find more plane debris.A new piece of debris, meanwhile, found on Sunday on the French…

A firefighter battling one of several wildfires across California has died, the U.S. Forest Service announced on Friday.David Ruhl, of Rapid City, South Dakota, lost his life while responding to the Frog Fire in Modoc National Forest in Alturas, California, according to the statement.…

JERUSALEM – Revelers dancing and singing through the streets of Jerusalem during the holy city's annual gay pride parade were left shrieking in pain and panic Thursday night, as an anti-gay extremist lunged into a group leading the march and stabbed six people, Israeli police…

JOHANNESBURG – It is, for some well-heeled foreign visitors, the ultimate African experience: the thrill of hunting a lion, one of the so-called "Big Five" animals whose habitats are under increasing pressure from human encroachment. Now an American dentist's killing of a celebrity lion in…

Australian officials investigating the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said Thursday that the discovery of debris on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion was "a major lead", but warned it was "too early" to say whether it belonged to the missing Boeing 777."It's…

Telugu film superstar Mahesh Babu feels it’s safer for stars like him to do commercial films as lot of lives depend on big-budgets projects such as his.Mahesh has had his share of flops in his career. But he treats success and failure on par.…

Offbeat, dark and independent cinema has evolved and is gradually getting acceptance in the Hindi film industry, but for actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar, cinema is not "light or dark", but is predominantly about a good story, fresh characters and new cultures."I don't think of cinema…

MADRID – A wildfire is continuing to blacken forests in northeastern Spain but authorities say that weaker winds and rising humidity are helping slow its advance.The blaze near Barcelona, which officials say is the Catalonia region's biggest forest fire this year, had charred some…