AFP | |A rare letter written by Mozart to a close friend and renowned Austrian botanist has sold for $217,000 at auction in the United States, the auctioneers said on Thursday.
AP | |President Barack Obama will keep 5,500 US troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in 2017, according to senior administration officials, casting aside his promise to end the war on his watch.
PTI | |"People sometimes ask me what the biggest perk of being President is. Number one is the plane," Obama said amid laughter at a White House function on Wednesday in celebration of American creativity.
PTI | |A report said discrimination against Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and Ahmadis in admission to higher education institutions persisted. Minority leaders reported their communities faced restrictions in securing admissions into colleges and universities.
Chidanand Rajghatta | |Front-runner Hillary Clinton was widely seen as a runaway winner in the first Democratic Presidential debate, delivering a commanding performance in which her experience of big stage and high office shone through.
PTI | |Han Xiao, a lawyer at Beijing Jingrun law firm, said that by maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm, the suspect may face a prison sentence of more than 10 years.
PTI | |While visiting California, President Obama enjoyed a round of golf at Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, where Stephanie and Brian were about to tie the knot on Tuesday.
Matthew Brunwasser | |For Obama, leaving more than a small force to protect the embassy in Kabul beyond next year would mean abandoning his goal to bring home almost all US troops before leaving office.
Michael Barbaro & Amy Chozick | |In a series of sometimes biting exchanges, Clinton declared that Sanders was mistaken in his handling of crucial votes on gun control and misguided in his grasp of the essentialness of capitalism to the American identity.