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Fourteen members of a family were found massacred in a house in Thane near Mumbai, early this morning. The incident took place in the city's Kasarvadavli area when the assailant Asnain Anwar Warekar, slit the victims' throats one after the another. Among the 14 killed, seven are children and seven adults. Later, the suspected accused, Husnail Varekar, hanged himself taking the death toll to 15. 32-year-old Varekar was found with a knife in his hand. The police say that all members had come together for a family celebration and were later sedated by Warerkar and then killed with a big knife. One woman of the family survived the attack and has been admitted to a private hospital. The condition of the survivor, said to be the assailant's sister, is described as critical. "There is only one survivor. We haven't recorded her statement yet as she is in a state of shock," said Joint Commissioner of Police, Thane, Ashutosh Dumre. The cops are yet to establish t...

A 23-year-old dalit woman was reportedly raped for almost two weeks by her batchmates, in Karimnagar district of Telangana. The victim, who aspired to be a police officer, was raped by her batchmates G Srinivas and M Anjaiah, while M Rakesh filmed the crime on his cell phone. The incident took place on the outskirts of Veenavanka village when the three accused were returning to the village with the complainant and a friend of hers after watching a movie. The trio took the two women to a secluded spot. While one of the women sensed danger and ran away, the other was raped and filmed. Threatening to post the video clip on social media sites, the three accused, who were also training to join the police force, assaulted her for over 10 days. The incident came to light when the victim told her parents two days ago, after which her family and the villagers thrashed the accused on February 24 evening. The three were later admitted to a hospital in the neighbouring Warangal district. Alo...

Riot police are trying to disperse angry crowds throwing glass and rocks following an officer-involved shooting in downtown Salt Lake City, local media are reporting. Witness say a 16 year-old was shot 4 times. Shots were fired in the Rio Grande St. area of Salt Lake city on Saturday night, police said. Police confirmed two officers were involved in shooting. Officer-involved shooting in Rio Grande District of #SLC . Multiple suspects in custody. KSL TV reporter Sandra Yi tweeted that a crowd of people had gathered at the scene and started yelling: “They shot an innocent kid,” referring to police. Selam Mohammad says it was his 16yo friend who was shot four times by an officer “Witness says officers shot a 16yo kid. He says the teen had a metal pipe. He heard 4 gunshots,” Yi said on her Twitter account. Angry crowds started throwing glass and rocks at the police officers who arrived on the scene, witnesses told local reporters. Local media have said that multiple suspects ...

PWCPD officers sworn in Friday (From left to right: Officer Steven Kendall, Officer Ashley Guindon and Lt. Col. B. Barnard). (Prince William County PD) A Virginia police officer who was on her first shift with a department was shot and killed Saturday and two other officers were wounded in a standoff stemming from a call about a domestic-related incident. Prince William County Police Department said officers responded to a call about 5:30 p.m. in Woodbridge, about 20 miles south of Washington, D.C. It’s unclear how the altercation between the suspect and police began, but the suspect is in custody and was not injured, Sgt. Jonathan Perok said. The suspect has not been identified, but Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney Paul Ebery says he has authorized a capital murder charge, among other counts, against the suspect. The department said in a statement on Facebook that Officer Ashley Guindon had died “as a result of her injuries sustained during the incident.” The other off...

Preliminary results in Iran's first major election since last year's landmark nuclear deal show moderates making a strong showing in a high-stakes ballot that could shape the future of the country and its relationship with the West. Voters cast ballots Friday for members for parliament as well as a powerful clerical body -- the Assembly of Experts, the committee of clerics that chooses the Islamic Republic's supreme leader. Iran's Interior Ministry said Saturday that with about one-third of the votes counted in Tehran, reformers were leading the parliamentary elections. Results from outside Tehran also indicated a strong showing by moderate candidates. In one significant result, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and President Hassan Rouhani, both reformists, were in the top two spots for the Assembly of Experts in Tehran as of Saturday afternoon. Rafsanjani called for national unity following the divisive vote, according to Iran's state-run news agency, IRN...

Mr Surti is encouraging more people to do their bit to change lives around them On a Sunday morning, an 80-year-old man arrives at the topmost floor of an apartment complex in Mumbai's Mira Road district. Over the next four hours, Aabid Surti, national-award winning author of 80 books, cartoonist and artist, rings the doorbells of all 56 apartments in the complex, asking a simple question of the residents: "Do you have a leaking tap in your home?" Mr Surti is accompanied by a plumber and a volunteer. Mr Surti is accompanied by a plumber and a volunteer. "Sorry to disturb you," he apologises to those who say no. The plumber gets to work, plugging leaks in the homes of those who answer in the affirmative. "I was always troubled by leaking taps," Mr Surti tells the BBC. "Whenever I would visit a friend or a relative's home, I could always hear any drop or leak, and I would ask them to repair it." Mr Surti says he grew up on the pave...

Guddia's Khushi Baby pendant contains all her vaccination records Around 1.5 million children die around the world every year from diseases that could be prevented through vaccination. India has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the world at under 60% - well below the World Health Organization's 90% target. But in rural Rajasthan, a simple necklace - which contains a child's vaccination records in a computer chip - is helping boost the numbers protected. Khushi Baby - which means happy baby - is a plastic pendant on a black string. A computer chip embedded in the pendant stores vaccination data of the baby wearing it, along with the mother's health records. By keeping the information on the child rather than on medical cards which can be lost or on paper logbooks that can become cumbersome and are almost impossible to search through, health workers can ensure babies get the right vaccinations at the right time. Eight-month-old Guddia Damur with her mother Ba...

A couple of days after reports of gangrapes in Murthal surfaced, three truck drivers who claim to be the eyewitnesses have said that they saw women being dragged and molested by Jat agitators in Murthal. This comes even as a team of women police officers visited the site today and said that no eyewitness or victim turned up to present any testimony. The three men Sukhwinder Singh, Niranjan and Naresh Kumar claimed that the agitators torched their trucks in Murthal, which is around 50 km from the National capital and then assaulted them following which they hid in the bushes to save themselves. They also alleged that they witnessed attackers "dragging women out of vehicles, tearing their clothes and molesting them" before carrying them towards the fields. In a rather shocking revelation Singh further said that "policemen who were present in plain clothes" were pressurising them to remain silent about the incident. The Haryana Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) of Po...

At least three people were stabbed in clashes between members of the Ku Klux Klan and counter protesters near a rally in Anaheim, California, said Anaheim Police Sergeant Daron Wyatt on Saturday. One of the victims was critically injured. Police arrested four people, including one accused of the stabbing. Source: RT

Searchers are looking for a 4-year-old girl who reportedly has been abducted on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeast Montana. The Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office says Maci Lilley was reported missing at about 9:30 p.m. Friday in Wolf Point. The office says witnesses reported a man took the child from a park where she had been playing and walked away. The girl is described as about 3 feet tall and 60 pounds with short, dark hair. She was last seen wearing a pink coat, blue jeans, and pink and white shoes. Roosevelt County spokesman Lee Allmer says various local and federal law enforcement agencies are participating in the search, including going door to door. Source: FoxNews

Felipe Calderon Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday joined his predecessor in office in unloading on Donald Trump, calling the Republican front-runner's campaign racist and saying his discourse on immigration is fueling anti-American sentiment around the world. Calderon, a conservative who was president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012, even said he thought Trump was trying to exploit the same social feelings and resentments as did Adolf Hitler. "I think his logic of exalting white supremacy isn't even acting against immigration — Donald Trump is the descendant of migrants — it is acting and speaking against immigrants who have a different skin color than him, which is frankly racist and is a bit like the exploitation of sensitive fibers that Hitler did in his day," Calderon told reporters after a meeting of the National Action Party, or PAN, in Mexico City. Calderon's comments parallel those made earlier by former President Vicente Fox, who prece...

Several feet of snow fell from this cabin roof and buried three children. (EastIdahoNews.com) A 2-year-old girl was killed and two other children were seriously injured when snow slid off a cabin roof in Idaho and buried them, officials said Saturday. They were outside a cabin near Yellowstone National Park in Mack’s Inn, Island Park, when the “freak accident” happened Friday evening, Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries told FoxNews.com. “Temperatures were warm enough that snow slid off the building and that’s not an uncommon occurrence,” he said. The three girls were taken by helicopter to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center where the 2-year-old died, EastIdahoNews.com reported. Her 7-year-old sister and a 7-year-old cousin were in fair condition, the news outlet reported. Their names were not released. Humphries told FoxNews.com the snow that buried the girls was several feet deep. “It took some time to find all three,” he said. “It took an hour to find the youngest.” The chi...

Foreign ministers from the 10 countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations said Saturday that they were "seriously concerned" by recent developments in the disputed South China Sea region and will seek a meeting over the issue with China. At the end of their annual retreat, held this year in the Laos capital of Vientiane, they noted their worries and reaffirmed the importance of maintaining peace, security and stability in the area. The strategically important South China Sea is at the center of a territorial dispute involving China on one side and a number of ASEAN countries on the other, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia. Tensions have ramped up since China began a massive land reclamation program in 2013. Recent satellite imagery suggests that China has installed surface-to-air missiles in a disputed area in the Paracels chain, prompting accusations that Beijing is militarizing the area. A joint statement said the ASEAN foreign ministers ...

From glaciers and polar bears, to magical mountains and remote tiny towns, traveling to Norway has become easier than ever before with these panoramic HD tours by AirPano website. Seventeen spherical panoramic shots will give you an immersion effect, and you can turn around, zoom in, and take a look at every detail in the spellbinding landscape. Spitsbergen is quite an unusual place on the word map: a polar archipelago situated in the Arctic Ocean, the most northern part of Norway, and a de-militarized zone. The Svalbard Treaty signed in 1920 between Norway, the US, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the UK, and Sweden stipulates the sovereignty of Norway over the Arctic archipelago. However, all parties were given equal rights to engage in commercial activities here. So far only Norway and Russia are exercising this right, with the Norwegian Store Norske and the Russian Arktikugol coal mining on the islands. There are no roads connecting the settlements ...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. © Marvin Gentry / Reuters Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic South Carolina primary against Senator Bernie Sanders by a massive margin. The victory comes just days before Super Tuesday, when 11 states will vote for the Democratic presidential nominee. South Carolina had an open primary, which meant that voters didn’t have to register as Democrats to have a say in the election. Polls were open from 7 am to 7 pm EST. Six in ten voters casting their ballots in South Carolina’s primary election were black, AP reported, citing preliminary exit polls. The previous record for black voter turnout in the state was 55 percent in 2008. Clinton and Sanders had different approaches going into the primary, with Clinton more focused on this particular win, while Sanders took a broader outlook and focused on the March 1 races, giving a speech to about 10,000 people at a Formula One racetrack near Austin, Texas ...

Robert Mugabe is helped by his wife Grace (left) and son Chatunga to cut a cake to celebrate his 92nd birthday at State House in Harare PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe marked his 92nd birthday at a nearly $1m party organised by supporters in a drought-stricken area on Saturday, drawing criticism from opponents who said the celebrations were an affront to ordinary Zimbabweans. Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s only leader since its independence from Britain in 1980, said no one would starve as a result of a drought which has left 3 million people in need and prompted the declaration of a state of disaster in most rural areas. But in a characteristic gibe at Western countries, he said Zimbabwe would not accept aid if it came with conditions that the country should accept gay rights. “If aid, as I undesterand, is to be given on the basis that we accept the principle of gay marriages, then let that aid stay were it is,” Mugabe said during an hour-long speech. “We don’t want it. It is rotten aid, filthy aid ...

The atmosphere is electric and we're nearly ready to march, thousands of people are saying it's time to #StopTrident Protesters opposing the renewal of UK's costly nuclear deterrent, Trident, have taken to the streets of London. With a number of organizations participating, many young people are at the demo, saying there are better ways to spend taxpayers' billions. People gathered Saturday noon at Marble Arch, and headed for Trafalgar Square, turning central London into a sea of banners. The movement's #StopTrident hashtag has been trending on Twitter. "Tens of thousands" took to the streets, according to the Evening Standard.                                     Many have been chanting "Cameron out, Corbyn in!" expressing their support for the Labour opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who is expected to address the protesters in Trafalgar Square. Other politicians, as well as academics and ce...

The Syria truce coordinating center has detected shelling of residential areas in Damascus carried out by terror groups, said Sergey Kuralenko, the head of the center launched by Moscow at Khemim airbase earlier in the week. Over 20 blasts were registered earlier Saturday over a period of five hours, Kuralenko said. DETAILS TO FOLLOW

Boys look at a car destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa February 27, 2016. © Khaled Abdullah / Reuters Up to 45 people are feared killed in Sanaa, Yemen, after airstrikes carried out by "the Saudi-led Arab coalition" hit a market in the northeast of the city, locals reported. There have been conflicting reports regarding the number of casualties. About 45 civilians were killed in the market, Xinhua news agency reported, citing residents. WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO BELOW                                         "Several Saudi-led airstrikes directly struck people gathered in a crowded market in Nehm district of Sanaa province and killed about 45 civilians while 50 others were injured at the scene," a resident in Sanaa told Xinhua by phone. Reuters reported 40 deaths and 30 wounded, citing locals. Arab coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia have been fighting H...

A major fire broke out on the third floor of a high-rise residential building in south Mumbai. 5 fire engines have been rushed to the spot. However, there are no immediate reports of casualties, according to a senior officer from Mumbai Fire Brigade. "We have started a two-step rescue operation at the location. Our primary aim is to quickly evacuate people from the building and then to control the flame," the officer said. According to Chief Fire Officer, PS Rahangdale fire broke out on 4th floor of Tirupati apartments and it has now been doused. Also there have been no casualties. Further he said, that since the smoke has engulfed the entire area, many residents are facing extreme difficulty in coming down. Fire fighters have entered the building and are rescuing the people. Two blasts from cooking gas cylinders were heard from the building as flames engulfed the third floor apartments. An electrical short-circuit is believed to be the reason behind the fire, although t...