Smoke billowing near the site of the attack near Kokrajhar in Inida's Assam. Unidentified armed men have killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens more in a busy market area in a town in India's northeastern Assam state, police officials say. The attackers opened fire on Friday at the crowded market in Kokrajhar, a town about 220km west of the state's commercial capital Guwahati, Sreejith…

North Korea has test-fired another ballistic missile into the sea, South Korea's defence military said.  The missile was launched off the North's east coast, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Pyongyang has vowed to take a "physical response" to the US and Seoul's plan to deploy an advanced missile defence system in South Korea. North Korea is prohibited from…

President Barack Obama has said Republican nominee Donald Trump is unfit to be president, and questioned why his party still supports the New York billionaire's candidacy.  "There has to come a point at which you say: 'Enough'," Mr Obama said. Mr Trump is under fire for attacking the parents of a dead US Muslim soldier after they criticised him.  On Tuesday, he turned…

A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 people today in what President Francois Hollande called a “terrorist” attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. The driver was shot dead after barrelling the truck two kilometres through the festive crowd on the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais, sending hundreds fleeing in terror and leaving…

Hyderabad: Terming IS as a tool in the hands of anti-Islam forces, Muslim organisations representing all schools of Islamic thought on Friday condemned the terror attack in holy city of Madinah, terming it as an attack on Islam and all Muslims of the world. Addressing a massive public meeting organized by Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), leaders and religious scholars said the attack by so-called…

In Bangladesh the government of Sheikh Hasina Wajed is under growing pressure to end an apparent culture of impunity after a series of brutal murders of secular writers, bloggers and liberal intellectuals by radical Islamists. A torrent of protest followed the latest killings of Xulhaz Mannan, editor of an LGBT magazine, and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, an actor and fellow gay rights activist. Critics accused…

Washington, D.C. : US President Barack Obama will join Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail for the first time next week, days before Vice President Joe Biden also stumps with her, Clinton aides announced Thursday. Obama is set to join Clinton in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday for his debut appearance on the 2016 campaign trail, the Clinton campaign said in a…

Washington: The Islamic State terror group may carry out a terror attack similar to the one at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, CIA Director John Brennan has said. The despicable attack at Istanbul’s international airport that killed dozens and injured several certainly bears the “hallmarks” of the Islamic State’s depravity, Brennan said here yesterday. “We’ve…

A triple suicide bombing and gun attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport has killed at least 36 people, including foreigners, with Turkey’s prime minister saying early signs pointed to an assault by the Islamic State group.

Israeli authorities announced Tuesday they were closing Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound to non-Muslim visitors after a series of clashes between worshippers and police. The decision will apply until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan next week, a police spokeswoman told AFP. Clashes between Muslims and Israeli police have been taking place every morning since Sunday over…

A Singapore Airlines plane caught fire Monday while making an emergency landing at Changi Airport after turning back from a flight to Milan following an engine oil warning message, the carrier said. No one was injured aboard the Boeing 777-300ER, but one passenger described those moments as a "so-close to death" experience. SIA said in a statement Flight SQ368 was en route from Singapore…

Israel and Turkey were expected to work towards finalising a deal on Sunday aimed at ending years of acrimony and restoring normalised ties that soured after a deadly 2010 raid on an aid flotilla. Negotiators were said to be meeting in Rome, where Israeli Prime Minister Benja­min Netanyahu also landed on Sunday for talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry. There were multiple reports in Israeli…

David Cameron said he would resign as prime minister by October, after Britons ignored his plea to stay in the European Union and voted in a referendum to leave. Cameron addressed the world's media outside his Downing Street offices on Friday morning as financial markets pummelled sterling and investors sold off British shares after the 52-to-48-percent victory for the "Leave" campaign…