GAZA: A young Palestinian contortionist known in Gaza as “Spider-Man” has entered the Guinness book of records, his trainer said Thursday.The 13-year-...
Paris: A glass wall 2.5 metres (eight feet) high will be erected around the Eiffel Tower in Paris this autumn, part of a multi-million euro plan to pr...
ANKARA: Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied across Iran on Friday to swear allegiance to the clerical establishment following US President Donal...
MANILA: A UN human rights investigator says there are signs of mounting opposition within the Philippines to President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs,...
A US federal appeals court on Thursday unanimously upheld a temporary suspension of President Donald Trump’s order that restricted travel from seven M...
COLOMBO: Exiled Maldivian leader Mohamed Nasheed said on Thursday he would return to the troubled Indian Ocean archipelago to contest a 2018 president...
DHAKA: Bangladesh is working with Myanmar security forces to stop Rohingya Muslim militants crossing their shared border, but will continue to allow w...
U.S. defence firm Lockheed Martin wants to push ahead with plans to move production of its F-16 combat jets to India, but understands President Donald...
Nobel laureate Sir Peter Mansfield, who developed Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), has died at the age of 83 on Wednesday. Mansfield, an English phys...
An Indian-origin neurosurgeon currently based in Canada has been shortlisted by NASA for its 2018 space mission under the Citizen Science Astronaut (C...
A US appeals court has rejected a bid to reinstate President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban from seven Muslim countries.The 9th US Circuit Co...
WASHINGTON: The US and India seem like a natural fit in the Trump era: Rambunctious democracies, led by populists, focused on economic growth and figh...
WASHINGTON: A US Defense official confirmed to Arab News that Iran fired a “defensive Mersad surface to air missile” on Wednesday, while making it cle...
ndia today handed over to the UK an extradition request for absconding businessman Vijay Mallya who is facing cases of loan default and other financia...
LONDON: British MPs overwhelmingly backed a bill on Wednesday empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to start negotiations on leaving the European Unio...
WASHINGTON: The US Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions as attorney general Wednesday, despite vitriolic debate over his civil rights record and whether he ...
JEDDAH: The presence of women in the field of information technology (IT) worldwide is still small compared to men, according to participants at the G...
Washington: Pakistan's military continues to support terrorist groups that attack India to keep it 'off balance' and draws international mediation int...
JOHANNESBURG: More than 120,000 Nigerians likely will suffer “catastrophic” famine-like conditions caused by Boko Haram’s uprising, among 11 million c...
With Disney opening the "Avatar"-themed land on May 27 fans will finally be able to enter James Cameron's alien world of Pandora.Disney CEO Bob Iger a...
Somalia's Parliament has elected former prime minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, a dual US-Somali citizen, as the country's new president.According t...
In US, President Donald Trump’s administration is considering a proposal that could lead to potentially designating Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolution...
In US, Senate voted today to confirm Republican Senator Jeff Sessions as the next Attorney General of the United States.The Alabama senator is known f...
In Western Yemen, 32 combatants were killed in the battle for a key coastal town between government forces and Houthi rebels. Military officials said ...
British MPs have overwhelmingly agreed in House of Commons to let the government begin the UK's departure from the EU as they voted for the Brexit bil...
Beijing: Five people were injured and some old houses were damaged after an earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale hit Ludian county in China’s...
Washington: President Donald Trump has slammed the court that is deliberating his immigration and refugee executive order as being “so political,” par...
RIYADH: Kuwait has welcomed Iran’s willingness for dialogue with its Gulf Arab neighbors, saying any talks are likely to help resolve civil wars in Sy...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Voting started Wednesday in Somalia’s groundbreaking presidential election amid a security lockdown that has closed the capital’s ...
AMMAN: Jordan said Wednesday it would not invite Syria to an Arab summit next month, five years after the bloc suspended Damascus over a harsh crackdo...
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