A heavily pregnant Labour MP was allegedly accused of “bringing down the whole of womankind” and “playing the pregnancy card” after she broke the rules of the Commons by leaving a debate to eat. According to the Evening Standard Tulip Siddiq was allegedly told by Eleanor Laing, the Deputy Speaker of the Commons, that she had “made women look bad” ...

The meeting comes after Barack Obama’s call in his address on December 6 for government and technology community to work together to combat terrorism and counter violent extremism online. (AFP Photo) Washington:  Top officials of the Obama administration have met leading Internet companies in Silicon Valley in an effort to build cooperation with them in combating online radicalisation and recruitment ...

The front-runners for the 2016 US presidential elections from the Democratic and Republican parties, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, would be neck-to-neck if it came to a hypothetical battle for the White House between the two, a new survey says. Friday’s survey conducted by Reuters and Ipsos, looked at a hypothetical situation where these two candidates lock horns in the ...

The Israeli military says two Palestinians were shot dead after trying to stab soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint. Saturday’s incident is the latest in more than three months of near-daily Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers that have killed 21 people, mostly in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming assaults. At least 137 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire. ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Pathankot on Saturday morning to take stock of the situation in the aftermath of the terror attack at the air base last Saturday. He is likely to conduct an aerial survey of Punjab’s border areas and address the soldiers at the air force base. Security had been tightened ahead of the PM’s visit in ...