More than 30 people were killed on Tuesday when a vast span of the Morandi bridge collapsed during a heavy rainstorm, sending about 35 cars and several trucks plunging 45-metres (150 feet) onto railway tracks below.
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Seoul: Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at an early date,” the North’s state media reported today.
Priests have had to adapt and start accepting donations by card payments rather than the traditional passing around of a wicker basket for churchgoers to drop in some coins, or even notes.
New Zealand Cricket appointed former Test batsman Gary Stead as the new Black Caps coach today, with pundits describing him as a steady pair of hands to replace predecessor Mike Hesson.
The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration will provide five free plants to farmers today as part of the Uttar Pradesh government’s green initiative for the Independence Day, officials said.
The US hopes to further strengthen ties with Pakistan in the years ahead and work with its people and government to advance shared goals of security, stability and prosperity in South Asia, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said.
The friendly tone of a 29-year-old airport worker who stole a commercial plane Friday night, performing acrobatic stunts before the fatal plunge into a thick island forest, belied his desperate actions.
Nine people were killed and 15 injured in a blaze that broke out today at a hospice for the terminally ill near Taiwan’s capital Taipei, fire officials said.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister said today he will seek to cancel multibillion-dollar Chinese-backed infrastructure projects that were signed by his predecessor as his government works to dig itself out of debt.