China has summoned a senior US envoy in protest after Washington announced it would sell two warships to Taiwan.

Colourful footage, shot with a thermal camera, reveals how hummingbirds avoid overheating as they beat their wings up to 70 times per second.

U.S. authorities in Pakistan could have sought - but did not - a full background security investigation of San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik before granting her a visa to enter the United States in 2014, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.

United States Department of State official Thomas Shannon meets BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan residence.

A US federal judge has ordered the state department to produce all documents by February 2016 related to Obama administration's decision to lift a ban on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's entry to the US.

The first military plane carrying Syrian refugees to be resettled in Canada has arrived in the country.

The world's first IVF puppies have been born after years of attempts, say scientists in the US.

Critics from the Republican Party and beyond reject presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call for a “total and complete” halt to Muslims entering the US.

Investigators believe the married couple who massacred 14 people in California last week - a US-born husband and his Pakistani wife - had been radicalised "for quite some time," but no clues pointing to an international plot have yet emerged, the FBI said on Monday.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a halt to Muslims entering the US, in the wake of the deadly California shootings.

President Barack Obama says the US "will not be terrorised" by Wednesday's mass shootings in San Bernardino, California.

US President Barack Obama has found a politician who is honest and has a clear vision for India in PM Narendra Modi, with whom he has held meetings on several occasions, says The White House according to Times of India.

At least 14 people were killed in a shooting at a holiday party in California, triggering a massive manhunt which ended when police shot dead two heavily armed suspects -- a man and a woman -- on a quiet residential street.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers by Foreign Policy, a Washington-based prestigious magazine of global politics, economics and ideas.

Turkey has challenged Russia to prove its claim that Ankara shot down a Russian plane in order to protect its oil trade with Islamic State (IS).

According to a poll, 76 percent of Republicans, and 42 percent of Democrats believe that American and Islamic values are at odds. Former Governor Jeb Bush and Senator Ted Cruz want to allow Christian, and bar Muslim Syrian refugees from entering the US.

The suspect in a deadly gun attack on a Colorado family planning clinic said "no more baby parts" during his arrest, US media report.

Three people have died after a man exchanged gunfire with police from inside a birth control clinic in the US city of Colorado Springs, police say.

After GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump proposed a plan that would require Muslims to wear ID badges in the US, one young Muslim girl came up with a great response.

A US aircraft attacked a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic in the Afghan city of Kunduz because of "human error", a US military inquiry says.