Lightning killed at least eight persons, including four women, in Birbhum district on Tuesday evening. Police sources said three persons each were killed in the Bolpur and Suri subdivisions of the di...

The carcass of a giant whale, with fins the size of an adult human being, was washed ashore at the Mandarmani beach on Monday morning. The body was over 40ft-long and weighed around 50,000kg, accordi...

A youth and a minor girl were found hanging from the branch of a tree at Samtanagar under Mango police station area on Tuesday morning, sparking sensation in the area.The deceased were identified as s...

Over 10,000 confirmed coronavirus cases were reported in a single day in the US, raising the number of COVID-19 patients to 43,734, as President Donald Trump signed an executive order to prevent hoard...

Forty people, including nine soldiers, have been killed in a spate of attacks in central Mali, authorities said Friday, with most of the deaths caused by inter-ethnic violence in the deeply troubled r...

A soldier with a grudge gunned down 26 people and wounded 57 in Thailand's worst shooting spree before he was fatally shot inside a mall in the country's northeast on Sunday, officials said.Officials ...

The death toll in China's coronavirus outbreak rose to 811 on Sunday, surpassing the number of fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, while over 37,000 people have been confirmed as being infected w...

Countries began evacuating their citizens on Wednesday from the Chinese city hardest-hit by an outbreak of a new virus that has killed 132 people and infected more than 6,000 on the mainland and abroa...

When the feeding grounds of blue whales overlap with busy shipping lanes, it is often bad news for endangered marine mammals.In Sri Lanka, however, an unusual alliance has been forged: conservationist...

More than 100 cows have been reported to have died in villages in Muzaffarnagar district over two days following which an inquiry has been ordered, officials said.The cows died in pastures and were su...