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“ Drones, helicopter gunships and commando units have been despatched to the scene”, it said, adding that one “terrorist” had been killed in the clashes.

“Had it done so, its flip-flop on terrorism would not have been there”, Prasad said, citing use of terms “saffron terror” and “Hindu terrorism” by former home minister, besides Gandhi’s reported assertions.

The CBC is reporting that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will call upon Governor General David Johnston to dissolve parliament either on Sunday or Monday to schedule an election for October 19.

The brother of slain Cecil the lion, named Jericho, was killed Saturday in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, a senior park official told CNN.

The scandal has none of the lordly sleaze of cocaine, prostitutes and orange bras, but Bronwyn Bishop’s extravagant misuse of travel expenses should be politically fatal nonetheless.

“The illegal killing was deliberate”, Ms. Muchinguri, a senior member of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party, told a news conference, adding that Mr. Palmer’s use of a bow and arrow to kill the lion – which is said to have been lured out...

A Zimbabwean conservation nonprofit says that Jericho, brother of the slain lion Cecil, has also been killed in Hwange National Park.

The wing fragment found on the island of Reunion is wrapped and ready to be loaded on a cargo flight for France, where experts are hoping to learn whether it comes from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Johnny Rodrigues, Chairman for Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said in a statement: ‘It is with great sadness and regret that we report that Jericho was shot dead at 4pm this afternoon.

The analysis is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, 5 August.

In the strongest action ever taken in the United States to combat climate change, President Barack Obama will unveil on Monday a set of environmental regulations devised to sharply cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s power plants and ultimately...

“For me, I don’t think that the stuff that they’re doing to Adam Goodes is racist”, he told Triple M radio station.

The analysis will begin on Wednesday.

Mr Greste and colleagues Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy were jailed last year for spreading false news and supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood during their coverage of the turmoil following the ousting of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. A Cairo court session which had been...

A new government report says health care spending is speeding up again. “Thanks to Medicare, all Americans age 65 and older are guaranteed access to health coverage – they can’t be denied because of their age or health condition”, said AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins.