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After months of wrangling, UK Parliament has passed a contentious new snooping law that gives authorities — from police and spies to food regulators, fire officials and tax inspectors — powers to look at the internet browsing records of everyone in the co...

Wisconsin, one of three battleground US states won by President-elect Donald Trump will undergo votes recounting after it received two petitions in this regard from a third-party candidate who alleged that Russian hackers may have infiltrated voting syste...

A Toronto television journalist is believed to be Canada's first anchor to don a Muslim head scarf at one of the city's major news broadcasters.

The UN Security Council's five veto powers are close to approving new sanctions on North Korea to cut the isolated state's earnings from exports by more than a quarter, principally by targeting its coal exports to China, diplomats said on Friday.

Former British prime minister John Major believes there is a "credible case" for a second referendum on Brexit, a newspaper reported on Friday, after his successor Tony Blair suggested the process could be stopped.

President-elect Donald Trump changed his tune on several topics — among them climate change and prosecuting Hillary Clinton — in statements on Tuesday to The New York Times and on Twitter. What he's said in the past and what he's saying now:

Pakistan Army Chief General Raheel Sharif will rertire on November 29, 2016.

US President-elect Donald Trump has lashed out at top electronic media executives and journalists, terming them “dishonest” and “deceitful liars” after he invited them for a private meeting of minds.

A bus carrying elementary students home from school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, crashed on Monday afternoon, killing at least six children and sending nearly two dozen to a hospital with injuries, authorities said.

James Mattis, a retired 4-star Marine Corps general who has long voiced concerns about the threat posed by Iran, is being considered to become Secretary of Defence, US president-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday.

The Saudi-led coalition announced on Saturday a 48-hour ceasefire in Yemen, starting at noon local time, the media reported.

Pakistan government has banned two more militant outfits for their involvement in terrorist activities across the country, an official said.

President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet began taking shape, with three conservative stalwarts named to fill key national security and judicial posts -- nominations predictably hailed on the right and condemned by Democrats.

Flood relief was also flowing into the evacuation centres, Sutopo added.

A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court on Monday seeking a directive for the government to extend the tenure of army chief General Raheel Sharif, who is set to retire this month.

In a bid to promote languages other than English,Australia today announced national rollout of an online programme for pre-schoolers to learn foreign languages, including Hindi, from next year onwards.