Beijing: Abandoning its decades-old one-child policy, China will now allow all couples to have two children, according to a communique issued on Thursday by the Communist Party of China, Xinhua reported.
Greek citizens on Sunday voted in a historic referendum to choose whether or not to accept a debt deal proposal tabled in late June by the country's lenders. The counting was underway after polling stations closed around 7 p.m., media reports said.
A Sikh from India who removed his turban to help a seriously injured young boy was on Friday recognised for his act of "outstanding compassion and empathy", a media report said.
Solar Impulse 2 (SI2), the first solar-powered aircraft in an attempt to fly around the world, arrived early Friday morning in Honolulu, the capital city of the US's island state of Hawaii, and will land at dawn.
A defiant Bobby Jindal has finally fallen in line after a third court told Louisiana's Indian-American governor that he must abide by the US Supreme Court ruling that states cannot prevent same-sex marriages.
Anusha was congratulated by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, a person of Indian origin, and Minister of Education Tim Goopeesingh, both of whom visited her Grant Memorial Primary Presbyterian School
Goldman Sachs' former India-born director Rajat Gupta failed to get his insider-trading conviction tossed on the ground that he did not benefit from the alleged tips after a judge ruled it was "too little, too late".
