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Here's why you should put your phone on airplane mode when flying
The reason is actually a really simple one
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Facebook's Zuckerberg holds meeting on bias claim
Facebook has denied the allegations, reportedly made by a former employee
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Nokia says will re-enter mobile, tablet markets
HMD Global and FIH Mobile will take over Microsoft's feature phone business for $350 millio
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Muslim woman counters Islamophobia with peace signs and selfies
The anti-Islam protesters held signs that said things like "No headscarves," "No mosques," and "Stop Islam"
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Brexit threatens £1 billion in research funding: study
Competitive research funding from the EU and European Research Council to Britain amounted to £967 million in 2015
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Is Google planning to take on Uber?
Google to launch its own ridesharing service
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Poland, Hungary fume over Bill Clinton 'dictatorship' remark
'They want Putin-like leadership; just give me an authoritarian dictatorship and keep the foreigners out' Clinton said
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Netanyahu close to agreeing Israel unity government: reports
Head of the rightwing Likud has reportedly been engaged in intense negotiations with Labour Party chief Isaac Herzog
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Rescuers find 17 bodies after Sri Lanka landslides
Sri Lanka's government has deployed troops to evacuate people living on slopes or in flood-hit areas
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Walk toward Calcutta from East Pakistan
JI leader Motiur Rahman was recently executed for crimes against humanity. Here is a poem Bal found to remember him
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15 pictures that will make you want to travel on the world's largest cruise ship
The Royal Caribbean International's vessel is the size of nearly four soccer fields
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Top US, Afghan envoys discuss strategy ahead of key quartet
Envoys look into various options to push for reconciliation process between Afghan Taliban, govt in Kabul
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Millions of refugees face homelessness without more shelter funding: UN
UNHCR says it still needs half a billion dollars to provide adequate shelter
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Apple to set up software laboratory in India
Apple is also in separate talks to open its first official retail store
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15 spectacular pictures of the sacred Kumbh Mela
The occasion has come to be known as one of the most sacred occasions in the Hindu faith
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Islamic State accused of unlawfully executing dozens in Libya bastion
At least 49 people had been killed by methods including decapitation and shooting
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China's Xi calls for Marxism and intellectual loyalty
Xi's address to around 150 specialists was his latest move to exert greater authority over China's cultural sphere
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Maldives sides with Saudis to cut ties with Iran
Maldives foreign ministry says policies that Iran were pursuing in the Middle East 'detrimental to peace and...
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Rescuers find 16 bodies after Sri Lanka landslides
Sri Lanka's government has deployed troops to evacuate people living on slopes or in flood-hit areas
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Fear stalks campus after Bangladesh professor's murder
The university campus has been largely deserted since English professor Rezaul Karim Siddique was hacked
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Clinton claims Kentucky, Sanders takes Oregon in Democratic duel
Sanders, a self-declared democratic socialist, declared he would not be forced out of the race by narrow Clinton wins
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Head of Catholic Church in Guam accused of sexual abuse
Accusation was made by a 52-year-old who said he was molested 40 years ago when he was an altar boy
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Mexico leader seeks to legalize gay marriage nationwide
'Mexican state must prevent discrimination for any motive and ensure equal rights to all' he says
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China, India face huge mental health burden: study
They are home to more than a third of people with mental illness, only a tiny fraction of them receive medical help
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Muslim states block gay groups from UN AIDS meeting; US protests
Egypt wrote to General Assembly president on behalf of OIC to object to the participation of the 11 gay groups
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Donald Trump claims net worth of more than $10 billion
The Trump campaign said his net worth has increased since his last PFD was filed and is now in excess of $10 billion
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British author Rowling says Trump has a right to be bigoted
Rowling says 'Voldemort nowhere near as bad as Trump'
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US Senate votes to allow 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia
Obama opposes the law because it would essentially waive the doctrine of sovereign immunity
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US Senate confirms Army's first openly gay civilian leader
Eric Fanning, 47, had been waiting eight months for his nomination to be confirmed as the Army's top civilian leader
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At sea, scientists drill into crater for dino clues
Scientists drill deep into ocean floor, extracting remains of the asteroid widely blamed for the demise of dinosaurs
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Australian minister under fire for 'illiterate' refugees comment
Peter Dutton was responding to proposals by the Labor opposition to boost Australia's annual refugee intake
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Oil prices hit 2016 peaks on talk of supply deficit
US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for June delivery rose $1.51 to $47.72 a barrel
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Saudi Arabia says time may be coming for "Plan B" on Syria
"We believe we should have moved to a 'Plan B' a long time ago," Adel al-Jubeir
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Country music legend Guy Clark dead at 74
The singer, who was a heavy smoker, had been in poor health for several years and battled cancer
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Turkish mother-of-three killed in protest laid to rest in Istanbul
There is no indication who fired the fatal shot at Pinar Gemsiz, who was reportedly 33
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US eases sanctions on Myanmar to support economic growth
The move allows all shipments to go through Myanmar's ports and airports, says the Treasury Department
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Closure of BBC recipe website cooks up storm in UK
Nearly 70,000 people and rising have signed a petition opposing the closure
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EU under fire over Czech pig farm on Roma Holocaust site
"It was up to EU member states to decide where subsidies were paid," says activist
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"Bachelor ban" in Qatar tests relations with migrant workers
The influx of workers has also raised concern among Qataris that rapid demographic change threatens their way of life
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Saudi executes Pakistani drug smuggler
Mohammed Ishaq Thawab Gul was found guilty of trafficking heroin into the kingdom, interior ministry says
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Baghdad attacks kill at least 25 people
The attacks also wounded at least 71 people, officials said
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Turkey identifies 13 more dead from bomb blast in Kurdish village, clashes flare
That raised the death toll to 16 from the May 12 blast in Sarikamis outside the city of Diyarbakir
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India's Modi to visit Iran, seeking to boost trade
Earlier this year India approved a $150 million project to develop the Iranian port of Chabahar
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US reveals Saudi Arabia's US debt holdings for the first time
Saudi Arabia is the 13th largest foreign holder of US debt
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'I am human' pleads Uighur Muslim suspect in Bangkok bombing
Bilal Mohammed and co-defendant Yusufu Mieraili are charged with key roles in August 2015 bombing of Erawan shrine
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Sri Lanka flood toll hits 11, thousands more homeless
Over 200,000 individuals have been displaced by the floods
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Boris Johnson crossed the line with Hitler reference: EU's Tusk
Johnson made his controversial remarks concerning the UK referendum set for June 23 during an interview
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Two bombs in Baghdad kill 13, say police and medical sources
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks
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US warns Americans against travel to North Korea
At least 14 US citizens have been detained by Pyongyang over the past decade, according to Washington
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Iran MPs want US to pay damages for 'hostile action'
It cites "material or moral damage" caused by the US during the coup against nationalist leader Mohammad Mossadegh

















































