Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent a congratulatory message to Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin. ....

President Vladimir Putin was leading in the Russian presidential election with 76.65 per cent of the votes after 99 per cent of the ballots were counted, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said on Monday. ....

Russians residing in the country's easternmost regions of Kamchatka and Chukotka began casting votes on Sunday to elect the next Russian president. ....

China's legislative body, the National People's Congress (NPC), on Saturday unanimously approved extending Xi Jinping's term to a second mandate after a plenary session vote at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. ....

Vanessa Trump, the wife of President Donald Trump's older son (Donald Trump Jr) has filed for divorce in a New York court after 12 years of marriage. ....

At least six persons have been killed after a footbridge collapsed near Florida International University in Miami, crushing eight vehicles and leaving rescue workers racing to free victims from chunks of concrete and snapped metal. ....

Pakistan has called back its High Commissioner in New Delhi, Sohail Mahmood, for consultation to Islamabad over incidents of "harassing" of its Embassy's staff in the Indian capital, the Foreign Office stated on Thursday. ....

Using a two-pronged tactic in the Human Rights Council, Pakistan has raised the Kashmir issue while speaking on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and then for itself. ....

The death toll in a suicide blast that hit a police check post in the Pakistan city here late last night has risen to nine, a police officer said. ....

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking died early on Wednesday, his family said. He was 76. ....