The United Nations Security Council is considering a draft resolution that would insist any decisions on the status of Jerusalem have no legal effect and must be rescinded after US President Donald Trump recognized the city as Israel's capital.

Canadian police say they have been investigating the mysterious deaths of Barry Sherman, founder of Canadian pharmaceutical firm Apotex Inc, and his wife.

The crude pipe bomb that exploded beneath the streets of New York serves as a chilling reminder of the vulnerability of the city’s subway system, a 24-hour-a-day operation with 472 stations and more than 5 million daily riders.

Zulifikar Haider hopes his daughter would live the American dream when she married a fellow Bangladeshi living in the United States, but that dream turns into a nightmare when the family see pictures of her husband wounded after allegedly trying to set off a bomb in a crowded New York commuter hub.

Akayed Ullah, accused of setting off a bomb in a crowded New York subway passage on Monday, was apparently influenced by sermons and write-ups of radical Muslim preacher Mufti Jasim Uddin Rahmani, police said.

The United States is seeking a $250 million cut to the core budget of the United Nations for 2018-2019, on top of

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered to begin direct talks with North Korea without pre-conditions, backing

Akayed Ullah, the Bangladeshi suspect in Monday's pipe bomb explosion beneath New York's Times Square, gave a leaflet of militant leader Jasim Uddin to his wife and asked her to read it in September last indicating that he was self-radicalized, says a top police official.

The suspect in Monday's New York subway blast looked at Islamic State propaganda online but is not known to have any direct contact with the militants and probably acted alone, law enforcers in the US found.

A would-be suicide bomber's rush-hour blast in the heart of the New York City subway system failed to cause the bloodshed he intended, authorities said, but it gave new fuel to President Donald Trump's push to limit immigration.

Firefighters, taking advantage of a lull in the winds, on Monday held in check a massive California wildfire that has torched hundreds of

Transgender recruits will be able to join the US military as of Jan 1 after a federal judge on Monday denied a request by

The United Nations yesterday warned that more than 400,000 children in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are

US President Donald Trump directed Nasa on Monday to send Americans to the moon for the first time since 1972, in order to prepare for future trips to Mars.

After weeks of scandal and Republican Party hand-wringing, Alabama voters went to the polls yesterday in a Senate

More than 50 female Democratic lawmakers in the US House of Representatives called on Monday for a

French President Emmanuel Macron issued a stark warning on climate change at a summit in Paris yesterday, telling

Law enforcers quiz the wife of New York subway blast suspect Akayed Ullah and his three relatives to know more information about the suspect.

The family of the man accused of setting off a pipe bomb in a crowded New York City subway corridor says it’s heartbroken and deeply saddened by the suffering the attack has caused.

Akayed Ullah told investigators that he set off his bomb in retaliation for United States airstrike on Islamic State targets including in Syria, The New York Times reports quoting law enforcers.