February2017

News Hour: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga stayed on course for a second successive title as he knocked out Australia’s defending champion Nick Kyrgios 7-6(5) 2-6 6-4 to reach the Marseille Open final on Saturday. Tsonga claimed his first...

News Hour: The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China’s upcoming defense budget as Beijing seeks to check U.S. dominance of the high seas and step up its own projection of power...

News Hour: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi out-campaigned all-comers in the 2014 general election but, as he faces his biggest mid-term test, he is up against a rival determined to beat him at his own game....

News Hour: The Taliban group in Afghanistan on Sunday used a rare public statement in the name of its leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, to call on Afghans to plant more trees for worldly and other-worldly good. Official...

News Hour: Islamic State militants pose a threat to Britain as great as the IRA’s during its bombing campaign in the 1970s, the new terror laws watchdog has said. Max Hill QC, the new Independent Reviewer...

News Hour: US President Donald Trump has announced he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on 29 April. The glitzy event draws celebrities, journalists and politicians, normally including the US president. Mr Trump...

News Hour: The widow of an Indian man killed in a suspected race crime in the US has said her husband “loved America” and came to the country “full of dreams”. Sunayana Dumala, who flew to...

News Hour:  The airport terminal where the half-brother of North Korea’s leader was killed with a nerve agent has been declared free of any “hazardous material” by Malaysian police. Security teams in protective suits had earlier...

News Hour: A furious student has blasted Facebook after it removed her naked anti-Trump protest pictures. Outraged Emma Dyason, 19, posted the images to protest against US President Donald Trump . They featured nude models holding...

News Hour: A documentary criticizing U.S. Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton tied on Saturday with superhero ensemble “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” on a list of the year’s worst achievements in film, winning four Razzies...