World

Washington: The US Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned Aguila Saleh, the president of Libya's internationally recognised parliament in Tobruk, over...

Khartoum: Sweat drips from Arafat Abkar's brow as she dodges blows in an open-air arena in Khartoum's searing summer heat. Wearing only shorts and a...

Beirut: Hezbollah's top military commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in a blast at a base near Damascus airport, the group said on Friday, one...

Madrid: A fire broke out at a Spanish tyre dump near Madrid on Friday, generating a huge black cloud of toxic smoke that led authorities to order residents...

Sochi: A ballistic missile defence shield which the United States has activated in Europe is a step to a new arms race, Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Brussels/Ankara: The number of migrants arriving in Greece dropped 90 per cent in April, the European Union border agency said on Friday even as Turkey said...

Diyarbakir/Istanbul: Eight Turkish soldiers and 22 Kurdish militants have been killed in clashes over the last two days, authorities said on Friday, as...

Oklahoma: An experimental airplane powered solely by energy from the sun has flown from Arizona to Oklahoma on the eleventh leg of an historic bid by its...

Vienna: Rail boss Christian Kern will become Austria's next chancellor, the country's president confirmed on Friday, after the Social Democratic...

New York: The world's oldest living person, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, died on Thursday in New York City, a research group said. Jones'...