Category: 4. World

Indian writer-lawyer-activist Banu Mushtaq has scripted history by winning the International Booker prize for the short story anthology, Heart Lamp.

It is the first book written in the Kannada language, which is spoken in the southern Indian state…

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has won this year’s International Booker prize for translated fiction, becoming the first short story collection to take the award. The stories were originally written in Kannada, the…

United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled a plan to develop a missile defense system designed to detect, track and potentially intercept incoming missiles.

He says his “Golden Dome” would cost $175 billion (€155 billion) and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump loves big numbers — and he’s always happy to talk them up.

Trump, who coined the phrase “truthful hyperbole” in his book “The Art of the Deal,” over…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for Syria’s transitional authorities to be supported, warning that the country could be only weeks away from “potential collapse and a full-scale civil war of epic proportions”.

At a hearing of the…

He’s a traitor to the cause, an infidel and a “slave” who “groveled” before US President Donald Trump. In the latest edition of its weekly newsletter, the extremist group known as the “Islamic State,” or IS, didn’t hold back how it really felt…