Morocco bus crash kills 31 school athletes
Rabat: Schoolchildren returning from a sports competition in Morocco were among 31 people killed on Friday in a head-on collision between a truck and a bus that caught fire, officials said.
Six Indians win Gates Cambridge Scholarship
london: Six Indian students are among 54 of the world’s most academically exceptional and socially committed young people selected from 28 countries for this year’s prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship in the UK.
3 killed in NATO convoy attack in afghanistan
Jalalabad: A Taliban suicide car bomb targeted a NATO convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least three civilians as security forces brace for a full-blown insurgent offensive in the spring fighting season.
China raps Obama over S China Sea remarks
Beijing: US President Barack Obama’s remarks that China is using its “sheer size and muscle” to push around smaller nations in the South China Sea drew strong reaction from the communist giant which said America has the “biggest muscle” in the world.
Syria talks in Moscow yield no results
Moscow: Talks in Moscow between the Syrian government and members of the domestic opposition tolerated by President Bashar al-Assad broke up today with no progress made towards ending the war. Activists among the fractious opposition groups said they had made steps towards agreeing a common position among themselves but failed to make any headway in discussions with representatives of the Assad regime.