A total of 272 whales were spotted in the waters off New York city last year, an "extraordinary leap" from 2011, when just five of the huge cetaceans were witnessed frolicking near the most populated urban area in the US, according to a science group. ...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has delivered a sobering assessment of the prospects of President Donald Trump's long-awaited Middle East peace plan in a closed-door meeting with Jewish leaders, saying "one might argue" that the plan is "unexecutable" and it might not "gain traction". ...
About a 100 people stripped naked in front of Facebook's New York headquarters as part of a protest against what they view as censorship regarding Facebook and Instagram's policies around artistic nudity....
US President Donald Trump on Sunday denied that he called Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, "nasty" and blamed the news media for making up the whole episode...
Approximately 10 minutes into her speech at MoveOn's Big Ideas Forum on Saturday, Harris was asked about her proposal to address the gender pay gap by the event's moderatorwhen she was approached by a tall man dressed in black and wearing a press badge who jumped on the stage, reports CNN....
US President Donald Trump announced that he will formally launch his re-election campaign for the 2020 election at a rally in Orlando, Florida, on June 18....
A disgruntled employee went on a shooting rampage in a municipal centre building in the US state of Virginia, killing 12 people and injuring several others before dying in a gunbattle with the police....
Seven Indian-origin kids, along with an American, have been declared co-champions of the US National Spelling Bee after the tie among the eight couldn't be broken even after 20 rounds of the finals. The unprecedented decision to declare eight co-champions was taken Thursday ...
In an on-going US crackdown on Indian call-centre fraud extorting Americans, an American federal judge has sentenced a participant in the scam to seven and a half years in prison....
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Anita Bhatia of India as an Assistant Secretary-General, according to his Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq....
