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Bangkok (AP) The authorities in Bangkok shut down mass transit systems and set up roadblocks Saturday as Thailand's capital braced for a fourth straight day of determined anti-government protests. The protesters have been doing their best to elude the...

The plan, which is still in the draft stage, aims to cover 23% of the population in the first phase. The final plan is likely to be ready by end October-November.

NASA is committed to send the next astronauts on the Moon by 2024.

Political analysts have argued that the reason behind a male-dominated system reserving seats for women is primarily 'votes'. For example, in the last three assembly polls in Punjab, the gender difference in the voter-turnout has changed dramatically in t...

Longhaul, lowcost carrier AirAsia X Bhd has run out of money and needs to raise up to 500 million ringgit ($120.60 million) to restart the airline, deputy chairman Lim Kian Onn said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday.

These are the top stories we are covering this afternoon: French teacher beheaded for showing Prophet Mohammed cartoon in class; 12-year-old boy and elderly woman killed in fire at residential building in Kolkata; rapid antigen tests in place as Sabarimal...

V K Jayarajan Potti was on Saturday appointed 'Melsanthi'(Chief Priest) of the Lord Ayyappa temple here for one year from November 16, when the Mandala Puja season commences. Raji Kumar M N Namboothiri was selected as Chief Priest of the adjoining Mal...

Actor Kate Hudson has boarded the cast of Apple's "Truth Be Told" for its upcoming season two. According to Variety, Hudson will have a series lead role opposite Oscar winner Octavia Spencer.

More than half the polling stations initially planned in conflicttorn Rakhine for Myanmar's Nov. 8 election will no longer operate, as parts of the state are too unstable for voting, the country's election committee said.

The new Toyota Mirai Popemobile will not sport a bulletproof glass casing, given Pope Francis’ choice to ride in an open-air vehicle.

To hold Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 safely, the Election Commission has reportedly arranged more than seven lakh hand sanitiser units, about 46 lakh masks, 6 lakh PPE kits, 6.7 lakh units of faces-shields, 23 lakh pairs of hand gloves.

Berlin (AP) Germany coach Joachim Lw has paid tribute to Jonas Hector after the Cologne left back's retirement from the national team for personal reasons. The 30-year-old Hector informed Lw and his club in September of his decision to quit internationa...

Paris (AP) Star striker Kylian Mbappe scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain won at 10-man Nimes 4-0 to move to the top of the French league for the first time this season. Mbappe netted late to give France a 2-1 win at Croatia two days ago in the Nations...

Gold fell and was on the way to its first weekly decline in three weeks on Friday, as fading chances of a U.S. stimulus agreement before the Nov. 3 presidential election dented the metal's appeal as an inflation hedge.

All Belgian bars and restaurants will be forced to close for four weeks, the federal government said on Friday, in order to tackle a surging second wave of the coronavirus, with hospitals close to running out of beds.

The trouble started after TMC leader Sheikh Shahabuddin, his wife Mansura Bibi, who's a gram panchayat pradhan, and two other powerful leaders were officially suspended for their alleged role in malpractices while distributing Cyclone Amphan relief materi...