US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered to begin direct talks with North Korea without pre-conditions, backing

Akayed Ullah, the Bangladeshi suspect in Monday's pipe bomb explosion beneath New York's Times Square, gave a leaflet of militant leader Jasim Uddin to his wife and asked her to read it in September last indicating that he was self-radicalized, says a top police official.

The suspect in Monday's New York subway blast looked at Islamic State propaganda online but is not known to have any direct contact with the militants and probably acted alone, law enforcers in the US found.

A would-be suicide bomber's rush-hour blast in the heart of the New York City subway system failed to cause the bloodshed he intended, authorities said, but it gave new fuel to President Donald Trump's push to limit immigration.

Firefighters, taking advantage of a lull in the winds, on Monday held in check a massive California wildfire that has torched hundreds of

Transgender recruits will be able to join the US military as of Jan 1 after a federal judge on Monday denied a request by

The United Nations yesterday warned that more than 400,000 children in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are

US President Donald Trump directed Nasa on Monday to send Americans to the moon for the first time since 1972, in order to prepare for future trips to Mars.

After weeks of scandal and Republican Party hand-wringing, Alabama voters went to the polls yesterday in a Senate

More than 50 female Democratic lawmakers in the US House of Representatives called on Monday for a

French President Emmanuel Macron issued a stark warning on climate change at a summit in Paris yesterday, telling

Law enforcers quiz the wife of New York subway blast suspect Akayed Ullah and his three relatives to know more information about the suspect.

The family of the man accused of setting off a pipe bomb in a crowded New York City subway corridor says it’s heartbroken and deeply saddened by the suffering the attack has caused.

Akayed Ullah told investigators that he set off his bomb in retaliation for United States airstrike on Islamic State targets including in Syria, The New York Times reports quoting law enforcers.

Arrested Akayed Ullah, who went to the US from Bangladesh in 2011 on a visa available to certain relatives of US citizens, was born and raised in Dhaka, villagers say.

New York officials say they charged the Bangladeshi suspect with terrorism, accusing him of setting off a pipe bomb in a crowded Manhattan commuter hub, as investigators in his home country question his wife.

The Bangladeshi suspect in Monday's pipe bomb explosion beneath New York's Times Square is an angry former limousine driver who learned to build a bomb on the internet at his Brooklyn apartment, officials said.

The Bangladeshi man suspected of trying to bomb one of New York City's busiest commuter hubs had no criminal record in his home country which he last visited in September, Bangladesh's police chief says.

Condemning strongly the blast in a crowded subway corridor near Times Square in New York, Bangladesh government says that terrorists must be brought to justice.

The US, South Korea and Japan yesterday carried out joint exercises to track missiles from North Korea, as China