LONDON (TIP): A British IS member living in Syria has complained about the “bad manners” of Arab fellow militants he says steal his shoes, eat like children and don’t queue. In an online blog Omar Hussain, […]
SANTIAGO, CHILE (TIP): A strong 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Chile’s coast on Wednesday, shaking buildings in cities around the country and forcing the authorities to evacuate residents along the 2,690-mile coast after tsunami warnings were […]
MECCA (TIP): About 1,000 Asian pilgrims were evacuated early on Sep 17 from their hotel in the Saudi city of Mecca, hit by a fire that injured two people, the civil defence agency said. Firefighters […]
BANGKOK (TIP): The good news for the Chinese visitor to Bangkok was that a doctor had successfully removed a foreign object from her large intestine that could have damaged her digestive system. The bad news […]
JUBA (TIP): At least 85 people were killed in South Sudan when a crowd tried to gather fuel from an oil tanker that had veered off the road on its way to a region west […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): One of the two Indians, who were abducted in Sirte in war-torn Libya, has managed to flee from captivity. Sources said Pravash Ranjan Samal, hailing from Odisha, escaped from the captors and […]
NANGCHEN (TIP): A 2000-year-old lost stupa, one of the 19 built with Lord Buddha’s relics sent by Emperor Ashoka to China, has been renovated and restored with religious rites by an Indian monk in this […]
ROME (TIP): An Italian woman who discovered her husband was cheating bit off his mistress’s finger in a street brawl which the Naples police described as fairly routine, albeit unusually violent. The revenge attack came […]
MELILLA (SPAIN) (TIP): In September 2005, hundreds of African migrants stormed the barbed wire fences in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco, seeking to make their way into Europe. Five died and […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): China appears to be carrying out preparatory work for a third airstrip in contested territory in the South China Sea, a US expert said on September 12, citing satellite photographs taken last week. […]
LONDON (TIP): In a moving gesture of solidarity, over 700 Scottish families have officially registered with the government pledging to open their homes for refugees fleeing persecution and conflict. Scotland’s Europe minister Humza Yousaf said […]
LONDON (TIP): The future of the Catholic-Protestant power-sharing government in Northern Ireland is hanging by a slender thread with first minister Peter Robinson’s decision on Thursday to step down, along with all but one of […]
BEIJING (TIP): In a gruesome incident in China, an estranged husband reportedly bit off his wife’s nose and ate it after she did not pick up his calls.The pair, from the city of Dezhou in […]
BEIRUT (TIP): Jihadists advanced on a regime airbase in eastern Syria on Sept 10 after the fall of one in the north, as staunch ally Russia defended its military aid to embattled President Bashar al-Assad. […]
LONDON (TIP): Britain’s National Health Service has made a desperate bid to keep Indian nurses from leaving UK, due to stringent new immigration rules. The chief of 10 leading NHS trusts have sent an emergency […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese premier Li Keqiang has assured global business leaders that his government was determined to prevent a hard landing of the country’s economy. He also said China would do nothing to trigger a […]
SAUDI ARABIA (TIP): Saudi Arabia has reportedly responded to the growing number of people fleeing the Middle East for western Europe – by offering to build 200 mosques in Germany. Syria’s richer Gulf neighbours have […]
DUBAI (TIP): The Islamic State group is extending its reach in Saudi Arabia, expanding the scope of its attacks and drawing in new recruits with its radical ideology. Its determination to bring down the US-allied […]
Five Indo-Canadian high school students have received this year’s prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarships. Nimra Dar, Manpreet Deol, Aditya Mohan, Aishwarya Roshan and Simranjeet Singh were among 50 high school graduates who were awarded the scholarship […]
LONDON: Two minor Sikh girls in the UK were ordered to remove their turbans by teachers who mistook the traditional religious headdress as ‘fashion’ items, prompting their families to protest. Simranjot Kaur, 13, and 11-year-old […]
ANKARA(TURKEY) (TIP): Aylan Kurdi, whose 3-year-old body was captured face-down in the surf in images that have horrified the world, set out for Europe only after Canada rejected his family’s refugee application, a Canadian lawmaker […]
ANKARA (TIP): Iran’s supreme leader said on September 3 he favoured a parliamentary vote on its nuclear deal reached with world powers and called for sanctions against Tehran to be lifted completely rather than suspended, […]
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (TIP): A failure to handle the migrant crisis effectively could adversely affect the “idea of Europe”, Germany’s labour minister said on Thursday, calling for a fairer distribution of refugees within the European Union. Speaking […]
GENEVA (TIP): The UN High Commissioner for Refugees called Friday on the European Union to admit up to 200,000 refugees as part of a “mass relocation programme” that would be binding on EU states. “People […]
LONDON (TIP): Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012 had plans to escape his asylum with the help of a fancy dress, it has been revealed. Leaked documents have […]
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