This week marked the 13th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre in United States that took place on September 11, 2001. (Photo: AP)
The CIA has said that presently IS has 20,000 to 31,500 fighters in Iraq, as opposed to the previous estimate of 10,000. (Photo: AP)
Previously IS beheaded two US journalists on video and made the first beheading video public. They have also beheaded several other Kurdish journalists in public places and released other videos too. (Photo: AP)
The Islamic outfit also had their official account on Twitter @dawlamoon. Post their Twitter account being shut down and banned, the outfit has threatened to assassinate employees of the website too. (Photo: AP)
The White House on Friday declared that the United States is ‘at war’ with the Islamic State with Barack Obama pledging to ‘destroy’ the outfit. (Photo: AP)
So far there is no drug or vaccine that could cure Ebola. An experimental drug, ZMapp, has seen success among monkeys but it is yet to prove its effect on humans. (Photo: AP)
A vendor selling grilled meat, left, walks past an amputee, right, who is suspected of dying from the Ebola virus in a busy street in Monrovia, Liberia. (Photo: AP)
China's Margaret Chan, left, General Director of the World Health Organization, WHO, and Roberto Morales Ojeda, right, Minister of Public Health, Cuba attend a press conference about the support to Ebola affected countries, at the headquarters of
Previously WHO had said that Ebola outbreak may affect 20,000 people in West Africa. (Photo: AP)
As on September 12, 4,784 cases of Ebola were detected. (Photo: AP)
According to the latest reports from the World Health Organisation, the Ebola death toll has hit 2,400 in West Africa. (Photo: AP)
In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013 Pistorius fired four bullets into a locked toilet door, causing Steenkamp's head to "explode" and "amputating" her arm. (Photo: AP)
Judge Thokozile Masipa said that ‘a reasonable person’ would have foreseen ‘that whoever was behind the door might be killed,’ adding that Pistorius did not take steps to avoid that. (Photo: AP)
Masipa had however cleared Pistorius on charges of illegally possessing ammunition, which the sprinter said belonged to his father. She also said there was not enough evidence to prove he fired a gun through a car sunroof, dismissing the testimony
Pistorius was only found guilty on one of the three gun charges that were leveled against him. Masipa said Pistorius was guilty of negligently handling a gun in a busy Johannesburg restaurant. While Pistorius was having lunch with friends, he asked
South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius was, on Friday, acquitted on charges of murder of his girlfriend Reeva Stankeemp. He was however found guilty of culpable homicide. (Photo: AP)
On the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a tribute of lights was given from the pool at the 9/11 memorial. (Photo: AP)
George W Bush, the then President of the United States declared a war against terrorism, that led to severe human rights violation in the United States, as several people were held under suspicion for being in tandem with Islamic militants. (Photo:
After several attempts, Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was killed in Abbotabad, Pakistan in 2011. Ironically, Abbotabad is very close to the army base of the Pakistani military that led to suspicion that Pakistan was giving
Over 3000 people were killed in this terrorist act. Shortly after the attacks al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden took responsibility for it. (Photo: AP)