Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been in a lockdown after a series of events that followed when suspects in the Boston marathon bombing shot Sean Collier, a young Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer (badge 179 but yet unnamed) in his cruiser. Rediff team reports.
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, his brother William, the Duke of Cambridge, and their father Charles, the Prince of Wales, have all been invited to the emergency meeting at the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk, while Meghan, who is in Canada with the couple's eight-month-old son Archie, is expected to join the discussion over phone.
William, the Duke of Cambridge who is second in line to the throne, also spoke of his worry for his grandparents -- Queen Elizabeth II, 93, and her husband Prince Philip, 98 -- who are both isolated away at Windsor Castle during the pandemic.
Prince Philip, 90-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, has undergone a successful heart surgery for a blocked coronary artery after being rushed to hospital with chest pain.
The instructor has been removed from his teaching job at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, an official said, citing the outcome of an inquiry by Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey
The British government has been accused of spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, sparking an outrage among civil rights campaigners in the country.
Foreign contingents continued to drop in with nearly 1100 athletes, officials and technical staff from different nations arriving on Sunday for the October 3-14 Commonwealth Games.
Medals tally of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
Check out India's schedule on Day 3 of Commonwealth Games.
Defence Secretary Robert Gates said the US Joint Forces Command would close, the use of outside contractors would be cut and the number of generals and admirals reduced. The command, which is based in Norfolk, Virginia, has an annual budget of US $ 240 million and 2,800 military and civilian employees.
The touching snaps -- taken by his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, and released on Saturday -- are the first glimpses of the British Prince since he was taken home from St Mary's Hospital where he was born 13 days ago.
Former U.S. track star Tim Montgomery, an Olympic gold medallist now banned from the sport, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison on heroin charges.
Former US sprinter Tim Montgomery, an Olympic gold medallist now banned from the sport, pleaded guilty on Thursday to distributing heroin. According to a guilty plea filed in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, Montgomery faces at least five years in prison and a fine of up to $2 million.
The USS Trenton Landing Platform Dock 14 is set to be the second largest ship with the Indian Navy, after the aircraft carrier Viraat.
B Raman says jihadi groups may target either the ship when it is here, or even India after it is gone.
'From a modest beginning of 33 antiquated vessels in 1947, the Indian Navy has grown into a modern and forward looking fleet.'
An Indian Air Force special rescue team on Thursday rescued Canadian diplomat, Andrew Norfolk, his injured wife and their three children trapped in snow in Dhauladhar ranges, north of Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh, since Wednesday.
The crew will then aim to return to India by May 2007.
The Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) are in talks with the Premier League over how best to deal with the current suspension of competition, but the moves by some clubs to use the government's furlough scheme has prompted sharp criticism.
After months of anticipation (and 31,000 submissions from the British public), the Britain's Duchess of Cambridge's final selection of images for Hold Still is available to view on the National Portrait Gallery's website. Designed to "capture and document the spirit, the mood, the hopes, the fears and the feelings of the nation" during lockdown, the project brings together 100 moving amateur shots of everything from at-home haircuts to make-shift classrooms; exhausted NHS staffers on duty to dedicated postmen in superhero costumes; pensioners FaceTiming with their grandchildren to mothers cradling their newborn babies. Below, see 22 remarkable images from Hold Still - then head to the The National Portrait Gallery website for the full exhibition.
Kensington Palace has released four new pictures of the youngest member of the royal family.
Here are the glimpses of life aboard USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier.
Moments that show it's an odd, odd world we live in.
The pictures follow Markle's official meet-up with Harry's extended family at the annual pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace hosted by his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.
The announcement comes three weeks after the couple confirmed their engagement last month and said the ceremony would take place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.
Check out India's schedule on Day 8 of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, on Thursday.
Close family members on Sunday visited Kensington Palace to see Prince William and wife Kate Middleton's new baby daughter.
In the first such case, the owner of a string of award-winning Indian restaurants in the UK has been charged with the manslaughter of a 38-year-old customer who died following a severe allergic reaction after eating a curry that contained peanuts.
It may have been Britain's Princess Charlotte's big moment in the spotlight but Prince George stole the show at the royal christening.
We sorted through countless photographs taken around the world to come up with the top photos of 2019. Together these images tell the story of the year -- capturing moments of hope and heartbreak, triumph and tragedy.
Some of these will make you chuckle.
Here's a look at some candid photographs of Her Majesty during her record-breaking 63 years on the throne.
Here are some of the best photos from around the world in the month gone by...
Henry Blofeld, who charmed the cricket world for more than 40 years, bids farewell to the microphone come September. Haresh Pandya salutes the Master.
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