Washington will begin making initial payments towards the billions of dollars it owes the United Nations “within weeks”, while continuing to push for reforms, the US ambassador to the UN said.

An e-mail received on Wednesday threatened a blast at the Hyderabad airport when a Gulf Air flight from Bahrain lands, according to sources.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman tourist from the Czech Republic at Agonda Beach in Goa’s Kushavati district, police said on Thursday.