News Hour: A baby born with brain defects caused by the mosquito-borne Zika virus has died in Texas, marking the southern state’s first Zika-related death, officials said on Tuesday, reports BSS. The mother had become infected...

News Hour: US House Speaker Paul Ryan beat back a challenge in the Wisconsin Republican primaries on Tuesday, winning a race in which presidential hopeful Donald Trump had praised his populist rival, reports BSS. In a...

News Hour: Australia was forced to reassure its citizens that their personal data was secure on Wednesday, after malicious attacks by overseas hackers prompted an embarrassing shutdown of the online census, reports BSS. Australians are required...

News Hour: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday pledged to reinvigorate ties after their first meeting since Ankara shot down a Russian warplane last November, reports BSS. Erdogan’s visit to...

News Hour: Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu snared her third gold medal of the Olympic Games here Tuesday, dominating the field to win the 200m individual medley, reports BSS. Hosszu, nicknamed the “Iron Lady”, hit the wall in...

News Hour: Olympic champion and world number one Serena Williams was bundled out of the Rio de Janeiro tennis tournament in the third round of the singles on Tuesday after a shock 6-4 6-3 defeat to...

News Hour: Michael Phelps claimed his second gold medal in one night and the 21st of his career as the United States won the men’s 4×200 meters Olympic freestyle relay on Tuesday, reports Reuters. The most...

News Hour: A bus carrying journalists at the Rio Games was hit by gunfire on a highway between Olympic venues on Tuesday, witnesses said. No one was seriously injured in the incident, reports Reuters. The bus...

News Hour: Usain Bolt waltzed in to sprinkle a bucket of stardust over Rio on Monday, and while there were Samba smiles and dancing girls, the biggest name at the Olympics could not escape the ever-present...

News Hour: A mural in the Australian city of Melbourne of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a revealing swimsuit, that was later updated to show her in a niqab, has been painted over. The...