World

People queue outside a government-run job centre in Madrid, Spain, October 22, 2015. Reuters/Andrea Comas   Madrid: The number of people registered as unemployed...

Recovered debris of the EgyptAir jet that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea is seen in this handout image released May 21, 2016 by...

  TEHRAN: Iran has officially announced it won't be sending pilgrims to the hajj this year and is blaming Saudi Arabia, claiming the kingdom...

  By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, Myanmar: After being withheld for over a year for political reasons, controversial census data on religion in Myanmar...

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Sacramento, California, U.S. June 1, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson   By JEFF HORWITZ...

Smoke billows during fighting between Iraqi government forces and IS jihadists as seen from area on the southern outskirts of Fallujah on June...

REUTERS/ File photo   WASHINGTON: The State Department acknowledged Wednesday that someone in its public affairs bureau made a "deliberate" request that several minutes...

A man stands next to the Ambassador Hotel, after Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab on June 1, 2016, launched a deadly attack on a top...

People with Turkish flags protest against the resolution German lawmakers are preparing to pass that recognises the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces,...

  BEIRUT: The Lebanese army shot and killed an Islamic State militant and detained three more during a raid on Thursday in the Akkar...

  OSLO: Norway’s Civil Aviation Authority has extended its ban on the use of Airbus H225 Super Puma Helicopters in Norway to include search...

Roberto Giachetti (L), Democratic Party (PD) candidate for Rome's mayor, embraces Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on stage during a rally in Rome,...

  Washington:  A strong 6.5 earthquake hit the western Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday. The epicenter of the quake was about 40km (25...

Nigerian soldiers (file photo: AFP) By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigerian special forces have rescued 247 hostages from Boko Haram, the army said...

Illustration picture of postal ballot papers in London ahead of the June 23 BREXIT referendum when voters will decide whether Britain will remain...

Destroyed houses in the Timberlea neighbourhood are seen as thousands of evacuees who fled a massive wildfire began to trickle back to their...

  ANKARA (AA): A Turkish soldier has succumbed to wounds after being caught in a building collapse caused by an attack of the terrorist...

(file photo: AFP) BRUSSELS: A giant panda has given birth  in a Belgian zoo, its keepers said on Thursday, marking a rare event...