Boko Haram gunmen killed seven people in a raid on a town in northeast Nigerian Borno state near the border with Cameroon on Sunday, residents told AFP. Gunmen on motorcycles stormed the town of Rann in Kalabalge district overnight yesterday to today and opened fire on homes, fleeing residents said. “They opened fire on homes as we slept and killed Read More

India and South Africa will sign a MoU on grassroot innovation in selected areas, including agricultural technology and indigenous knowledge systems, on the sidelines of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s maiden visit to the country. The 20th anniversary of the bilateral cooperation in science and technology between South Africa and India will be celebrated by the signing of the memorandum of Read More

US President Barack Obama said on Saturday he expected Britain to go through with leaving the European Union after last month’s referendum and was concerned to limit the damage to the British, European and global economies from the move. As a friend, ally and trading partner of Britain and of the EU, he said Washington wanted to see an orderly negotiating Read More

Iraqi government forces on Saturday recaptured an air base in northern Iraq from the Islamic State group, a victory hailed by the prime minister as a key step ahead of the long-awaited operation to push the militants from the northern city of Mosul. In a statement issued on his web site, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi described the air base in the town of Qayara as an Read More

Roger Federer insists he will be back at Wimbledon in 2017, when he will be pushing 36, despite his heartbreaking loss to Milos Raonic in the semi-finals. The seven-time champion suffered a shock 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 defeat in a match where he crucially failed to convert break points in the fifth and ninth games of the fourth Read More

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari will arrive on Sunday on a week- long official visit aimed at attracting billions of dollars in Foreign Direct Investment in the crucial infrastructure sector in India and accelerating bilateral cooperation with the US. On his maiden visit to the US in his capacity as Union Minister, Gadkari is scheduled to crisscross Read More

The Dallas police early Thursday night released a picture of an unidentified man as one of the ‘suspects’ behind the attack that killed five transit officers and and two civilians in the city. They posted a tweet asking help from people in identifying the ‘suspect’. They later added in a tweet that the ‘person of interest’ has ‘turned himself in.’ Within minutes, Read More

Reigning Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt, who suffered a torn hamstring at the Jamaican Olympic trials, will be named to Jamaica’s team for the Rio Olympics on Monday, the Gleaner newspaper reported. Citing unnamed sources, the Kingston newspaper reported the Jamaica Olympic Association will list Bolt after the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) entered him among four runners Read More

Iran will press on with its missile programme “with full force” based on national security needs, a foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying on Saturday, adding that critical comments by Germany’s leader were unhelpful. Chancellor Angela Merkel told the parliament in Berlin on Thursday that missile launches by Iran earlier this year were inconsistent with a UN resolution urging Read More

Three members of a gang, including two ex-Home Guards, have been arrested for honey-trapping a private airlines pilot and extorting Rs 9.7 lakh from him, police said on Friday. The gang, which includes female members, had trapped the pilot through a popular online dating site. The arrested persons, posing as Crime Branch cops, had extorted Rs 9.7 lakh from him in Read More