India and the US agreed to maintain the pace and momentum of their partnership, particularly their defence ties, after Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis spoke on the phone with his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar, a Pentagon spokesman said. ....

A Pentagon spokesman on Wednesday said that it was interested in leasing a "limited" amount of space at the Trump Tower in Manhattan to the Department of Defence. ....

Around 15,000 people in the Philippines took to the streets in a slum here on Wednesday after a fire, lasting for more than six hours, razed entire rows of houses, a media report said. ....

An earthquake measuring 6.4 magnitude at the Richter scale jolted the southwest region of Pakistan early on Wednesday morning, Pakistan's National Seismic Monitoring Centre said. ....

At least 20 people were killed on Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the parking lot of Afghanistan's Supreme Court building here, officials said. ....

US President Trump has said that the news media was playing down the terrorist threat posed by the Islamic State (IS) and journalists were reluctant to report on the militant groups attacks in Europe and "have their reasons" for failing to cover them, the media reported. ....

Iran´s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday he was grateful to US President Donald Trump for revealing "the real face of America". ....

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has scheduled a hearing on whether to restore President Donald Trump's the media reported. ....

US President Donald Trump on Monday expressed gratitude to the military members "for the sacrifices they made in order to serve the country" during an address at the US Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida. ....

More than 10,000 Saudi women have received mobile phone repairing training to improve the employment chances of females, the media reported on Monday. ....