International

New York: Eileen Laubacher, a former US Navy rear admiral who served as a defence attaché at the embassy in New Delhi, has defeated a fiery Republican hardliner in the midterm elections to Congress that have turned into a Democratic tsunami. Democrat Laubacher was declared...

Hong Kong: Well before reports emerged that former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, the advanced chips made by his company were at the centre of the race between the US and China to dominate artificial intelligence. The...

Quetta: Security posts of the Pakistani forces in Balochistan's Nushki were reportedly targeted with rockets and gunfire, a day after a suicide bombing and armed assault on a military camp in Mastung, local media reported. Reports indicate that military posts near the football stadium and...

New Delhi: All Microsoft products became operational Saturday, the company's service health page showed, after a massive global outage that disrupted Outlook email and other workplace services, with the firm saying it was deeply sorry and blamed the incident on a network capacity upgrade issue....

New Delhi: Air India Saturday advised passengers to check the latest status of their flights and plan their journey to the airport accordingly, amid massive disruption at US airports. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lifted a nationwide ground stop that had halted departures at US...

Sanaa: Yemen's Houthi group said it had launched fresh drone attacks against a major airport and oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, alongside a series of strikes on Saudi-linked military positions in Yemen and southern Saudi Arabia, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya...

United Nations: India has voted in favour of a UN General Assembly draft resolution that reaffirms the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and the population of the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources and demands that Israel cease the exploitation and damage of...

Washington: The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights nationwide Friday afternoon for just the second time since the September 11 attacks, with officials citing "extraordinary circumstances" caused by communications problems at regional air traffic control centres. The nation's top homeland security official attributed the problem...

Dubai: An official of the Indian Consulate in Dubai has met family members of Indian victims of a road accident in Fujairah that killed at least 14 people and assured them of all possible assistance. At least 14 people, including Indians, were killed and 30...

Brisbane: A fossil hippo tooth is an unlikely find in the middle of a desert. The vast sandy expanse of Arabia’s Empty Quarter or Rub’al Khali stretches across the southern part of the peninsula, covering parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen and the United Arab...