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London : Liz Truss has been named as the new Conservative leader on Monday afternoon and she will become UK PM on Tuesday, media reports said.Truss takes the helm of a country in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis after seeing off the…

New York : A small supersonic asteroid, travelling at ten times the speed of a bullet, will pass by the Earth on Tuesday, media reports said.The asteroid has been given the designation 2022 QC7 and it is not too big, with a width ranging…

Beijing : At least seven people were killed in a 6.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted Luding county in China’s Sichuan province on Monday, authorities said.Damage to roads, telecommunications and houses is being checked, said the…

Kabul/Moscow : Two staffers of the Russian Embassy in Kabul were killed on Monday following a blast near the mission’s premises, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow has confirmed.”At 10.50 a.m. on Monday, an unidentified attacker activated an…

Sydney : Though most of us seek solitude, a quiet place to study, researchers now reveal that noise may play a key role in helping some people improve their learning potential.A team of researchers found that the transcranial random noise…

Colombo : Sri Lanka’s Meteorological Department on Monday issued a red alert for several districts as heavy rain were expected to lash the island nation in the coming days. The Department warned that some areas could experience rains of…

Kabul : At least six people were killed and nine others injured after a 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan’s Kunar province on Monday, a top official said.”The tremor jolted the region at around 2.30 a.m. and based on preliminary…

California : Two people were killed in a fast-moving wildfire in California’s Siskiyou county, a top official said.Late Sunday, the county’s Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue said the deaths in the Mill Fire were reported in the town of Weed, reports…

Chitradurga (Karnataka) : A local court on Monday remanded accused Lingyat seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru to a nine-day judicial custody till September 14 in connection with alleged rape of minor girls in the mutt. The Second District…

Beijing : The death toll after a flash flood in China’s Qinghai province has increased to 17, with another 17 people still missing, local authorities have confirmed.Twenty people who were previously reported as missing have been rescued and…