The former U.S. Army major convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 will be executed by firing squad, marking the first such execution in the United States since World ...

Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his “decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-e ...

The FBI has arrested a 34-year-old California woman after charging her with acting as an unregistered agent of China and surveilling the son of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te and his fa ...

Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has raided two alleged illegal call centres in Lahore, detaining more than three dozen people, media reports said on Monda ...

Scientists Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel  have clinched the Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics — a method that makes it possible to show how nerve cells ...

Omani pilot Hamam al-Hammami, who is under arrest and being interrogated in the United Arab Emirates, has reportedly told investigators that he planned to crash Flydubai Flight FZ1073 int ...

A British-Indian businessman and his former wife are facing extradition to the United States over allegations that they defrauded healthcare programmes of millions of dollars by supplying ...

The revelation that Omani co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami had reportedly been removed from flight training in Oman over concerns about his alleged radical views has added a new and troubling di ...

Residents of Bhag city in Pakistan observed a shutdown strike recently following a call by the All Parties Action Committee to protest the deteriorating law and order situation, marked by ...