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Nearly 3.2 billion people are now online, which comes to about 43.4 per cent of the world population, but the number still falls significantly short of reaching the anticipated goal of 60 per cent by 2020. The ramifications...

First-time Senator Ted Cruz defied polls to trounce Donald Trump in the Republican Iowa Caucus in the animated race for the White House, while self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders surged on the back of young voters to...

Hillary Clinton braces for a new wave of criticism ahead of crucial voting in Iowa on Monday after revelation that emails she received or exchanged on her private email account as secretary of state contain “top...

Tunisia, the birthplace of Arab Spring revolutions, is in once again in the grip of demonstrations, which are testing the nascent democracy sternly. Five years after the Tunisian youth ousted a dictatorial regime and earned unprecedented...

South Asian agrarian economies have been growing at a rapid pace in the recent years. Their share in the world cereal harvests is also enviable- 60 percent of total rice and 50 percent of wheat. Fruit...

General Raheel Sharif  – who is credited with prosecuting Pakistan’s most effective fight yet against terror  – in North Waziristan and elsewhere along the Afghan border -– has announced that he would retire from the powerful army...

Life is gradually returning to normal in cities and states along the U.S. East Coast after a mammoth blizzard Jonas dumped more than two feet of snow, claimed around 30 lives and shuttered down businesses, schools...

Five yeas ago Egyptians launched the Arab Spring uprising on January 25, when, inspired by the Tunisian demonstrations, men and women from almost all segments of the society raised their full throttle but mostly peaceful demand...

The “epic” snowstorm enveloping much of the eastern U.S. follows the hottest year on record, and comes at the start of a year that could be even warmer. Washington D.C. is among the areas to take...

A massive snow blizzard continued to hit Washington metro area on the second day on Saturday, with normal life coming to a halt in the nation’s capital amidst more than a foot thick snow blanketing  a...