Tensions between the United States and Iran ratcheted up Wednesday as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decried the weekend attacks on the Saudi oil industry as an “act of war” and President Trump ordered a substantial increase in sanctions against the government in Tehran. With the Trump administration linking the sanctions step to the airstrikes, […]

A Taliban truck bomb killed at least 20 people and wounded 95 others when it exploded near a hospital in southern Afghanistan, an official said. The Taliban, who have been carrying out nearly daily attacks since peace talks with the United States collapsed earlier this month, said the target was a nearby government intelligence department […]

A court in south India has sent a couple to jail after finding the husband-wife duo guilty of spending four million Indian Rupees (about 57,150 dollars) wrongly credited to their bank account in 2012. English daily The Times of India reported on Wednesday that seeing it as a “windfall,” the couple withdrew the money within […]

A pregnant mother was jailed for eight months after lying about the father of her baby on the birth certificate to spite her ex-boyfriend. Louise Boyce, 30, pretended her new boyfriend Nathan Leggatt was the baby’s father instead of her former lover Ashley Sayce – and took him to register the birth, DailyMail reported. When […]

China’s space industry is still in its early stages compared to the United States’, but the US Department of Homeland Security suspects that China is trying to get ahead by stealing military space technology. Pengyi Li, a Chinese national, attempted to smuggle sensitive spacecraft and missile components out of the U.S. according to documents obtained […]