A farmer burns a straw stubble on a farm near Jandila Guru in Amritsar, India on October 16. Samir Sehgal / Hindustan Times / Getty Images A familiar scene is happening in North India. Fields filled with stalks of already harvested crops have been burnt. Billing smoke travels across state …

LAGOS, Nigeria – Many people were killed when Nigerian troops opened fire on a main protest site in Lagos, witnesses said, as the government sought to end a two-week march against police brutality that engulfed a nationwide demonstration. Three witnesses gathered among hundreds of protesters at the Lakey Toll Gate …

Minority judges said the extension – by a state-court consent order – threatened “chaos” and deprived the North Carolina legislature of its constitutionally mandated role. Dissidents also issued an unusual plea to Berger and Moore to take the fight to the Supreme Court urgently. “This case presents a clear opportunity …

Getty Images Going into Tuesday’s Game 1 of the World Series between Ray and the Dodgers (TB-LAD Gametracker), America watched with a huge sigh of relief due to the relentless love of the game. They also looked for opportunities for tacos – Healthy, restorative and free. This is not the …

Christ Pratt seems to be one of Hollywood’s least favorite people by that name. On Saturday, filmmaker Amy Berg took to Twitter to share images of four famous men named Chris: Pratt, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pine and Chris Evans. “One has to go,” She wrote in the post, Playing on …