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A Bangladeshi Imam and his assistant were shot dead on Saturday while walking together following afternoon prayers at a mosque in Queens, a borough of New York City. The two men, who were dressed in Islamic attire,...

Dubbed as “the battle for Aleppo,” the latest chapter of massacres in the Syrian conflict continues, with reports of more civilian deaths in air strikes Friday. More than five years of bloodletting has killed close to...

With astonishing speed, Ethiopian runner Almaz Ayana set a new world record in the 10,000 m women’ s competition on Friday in Rio Olympics. Her Ethiopian compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba grabbed bronze by timing 29:42.56. Kenyan Vivian...

Seeking to inject a raft of pressing scientific, climate, health and technological challenges into the 2016 election debate, a coalition of more than 50 nonpartisan science and technology organizations has posed 20 high-stakes questions, asking candidates...

Pakistan cricket’s all-time great Hanif Mohammad – who played some glorious innings to help the country emerge as a formidable cricket playing nation in the first two decades after independence, passed away Thursday after protracted illness....

For 12 years, the family kept the grief of son’s loss private. But one day, Khizr Khan decided to make a public statement in the middle of an unusually heated election year. Since that July 28...

The story of Yusra Mardini is extraordinary in many ways: the 18-year-old Syrian is a member of the Olympic Refugee team; she swam for life  and saved fellow refugees when their rickety boat faced rough Mediterranean...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based independent watchdog body, joined other Press organizations in condemning Monday’s terrorist attack at the civil hospital in Quetta that killed at least 70 people, including two journalists...

Issuing a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump’s positions on a range of national security and foreign policy matters, a group of former Republican officials have signed a letter, declaring the GOP candidate as unfit for the...

Shedding some light on correlation between political leanings and close friendships in a political season, a new poll has found that few supporters of both Democratic and Republican candidates have close friends in the other camp....