The US would come to Taiwan’s defence and has a commitment to defend the island China claims as its own, US President Joe Biden said on Thursday, though the White House said later there was no c...

Surgeons in New York have successfully attached a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human patient and found that the organ worked normally, a scientific breakthrough that one day may yiel...

Amidst an all-out confrontation between the United States of America and China, Taiwan is fast emerging as a critical fault-line. The delicate balancing act that the US had long maintained on the issu...

Before the advent of Facebook, the world knew that unhindered human free speech could be deeply problematic when amplified: it did not know that it could be hugely lucrative. The latter finding is wha...

Four people were wounded in a shooting near a high school football game in Alabama, police said. The shooting took place on  Friday night near the exit ramp at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, po...

Russia said one of its military vessels chased away a US naval destroyer that attempted to violate Russian territorial waters during Russian-Chinese naval drills in the Sea of Japan on Friday, the Int...

We have entered the era of big data. This era, which is just beginning, will have a greater impact on our lives than the advent of the computer did. Giant technology firms have access to a vast amount...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has embarked on a week-long US trip to attend the annual meet of the World Bank and IMF as well as meetings of G20 finance ministers and a meeting of central bank g...

From Washington to Canberra, much of the northern hemisphere has its eyes focused on the region termed the ‘Indo-Pacific’. In London, a new presence is central to the Boris Johnson governm...

An 18-year-old opened fire inside a Dallas-area high school, leaving four people injured before fleeing, authorities said on Wednesday.   The shooting took place at the Timberview High Scho...