The blaze, which has scorched about 54,000 acres (21,853 hectares) east of Lower Lake, a town about 110 miles (180 km) north of San Francisco, was the fiercest of 20 large fires being battled by 9,000 fire-fighters across the state, officials said. A separate blaze t ....

Madison County Sheriff Randy Tucker and Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest said they don’t know why the suspect would have shot 37-year-old Kendrick Armond Brown. Brown was facing charges of selling cocaine and had been sentenced to prison time on p ....

The report by Airwars, a project aimed at tracking the international airstrikes targeting the extremists, said it believed 57 specific strikes killed civilians and caused 48 suspected “friendly fire” deaths. It said the strikes have killed more than 15,000 I ....

 Major political parties in Sri Lanka have flatly rejected the Tamil National Alliance (TNA)’s demand for federalism. The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)-led United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA); United National Party (UNP)-led United National Front fo ....

Touting the plan at a White House event on Monday, Mr. Obama said the unprecedented carbon dioxide limits are “the single most important step” America has ever taken to fight climate change. He warned that because the problem is so large, if the world doesn& ....

He has done it again. That S.S. Rajamouli has smashed several records with his ‘Baahubali’, since it hit thousands of screens on July 10 in three languages - Telugu, Tamil and Hindi is actually old news. On Monday, the news broke that it had raced past the Rs ....

 Battle lines remained drawn in Parliament on Monday, as the all-party meeting called by the government to break the fortnight-long deadlock failed to bring any consensus. While Question Hour ran its full course in the Lok Sabha amid protests, Rajya Sabha was adjour ....

As Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad described the episode as proof of an “undeclared Emergency” in the country, an enraged Congress announced that all its members would boycott the Lok Sabha for the next five days. A decision on t ....

What is even more surprising is that it happened on the watch of the mild-mannered Ms. Mahajan, so identified with the image of an indulgent but proper elder sister, or Tai, that she has officially adopted it on her official resume. Ms. Mahajan, 71, the woman with th ....

There was no loss of life or injury to anyone on the BSF side, he added. According to reports, mortar shells also landed in civilian areas triggering panic in Kanachak and Pargwal forward areas. On August 2 and 3, Pakistani troops had violated the ceasefire four t ....