BOSTON: Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked on Friday to delay his trial until at least September 2015.

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama conceded on Thursday that his administration did not have a strategy yet to combat the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) even as reports surfaced that ISIS men

PARIS: A 14-year-old French girl has been placed under investigation for allegedly planning to carry out jihad, the third in a group of teenage girls caught before they left home.

NEW YORK: When Roger Federer smacked a backhand return winner off his opponent's 142 mph (229 kph) serve Friday night, he glanced at the speed readout, just to find out exactly how difficult what he'd done had been.

NEW YORK: World number two Simona Halep and two-time champion Venus Williams tumbled out of the US Open on Friday, but Maria Sharapova bucked the upset trend that rocked the women's draw.

SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir legislative council on Thursday passed a unanimous resolution asking the state government to "urge the Centre to resume" India-Pakistan dialogue.

NEW DELHI: In an indication of how tenuous the India-Pakistan border situation is, Pakistan violated the ceasefire again on Wednesday night in Akhnoor (Jammu),

HYDERABAD: The phenomenal response to Hyderabad woman Manju Latha Kalanidhi's Rice Bucket Challenge has inspired her to want to keep the campaign running.

HYDERABAD: As the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge touched Indian homes, engaged Bollywoodians, CEOs and students, it got a very Indian twist in one Hyderabad home.

 CHANDIGARH: Farmers in rain-deficient Punjab and Haryana have been forced to pay through their nose to protect their standing paddy crop from damage. Many who couldn't afford the steep input costs have replaced their wilting crop with those that would need much less water to cultivate.