US astronaut Jeffrey Williams, one of the three crew members of expedition 47/48 to International Space Station (ISS), attends a press conference at...
US astronaut Jeffrey Williams, one of the three crew members of expedition 47/48 to International Space Station (ISS), attends a press conference at...
Representative image. Photo courtesy: US Mint (coin) (Victor David Brenner, designer of obverse, Frank Gasparro, designer of reverse), National Numismatic Collection (Jaclyn Nash) ...
South Korean people watch TV news at Seoul station, in Seoul, South Korea, 18 March 2016. North Korea on 18 March 2016 launched...
Islamabad: Pakistan has given the green light for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to leave the country, a day after the Supreme Court...
Washington: The United States declared Thursday that the Islamic State group's slaughter of Christians, Yazidis and Shiites amounts to a genocide and vowed...
Miami: Temperatures across the planet soared again last month, setting a new heat record with the warmest February since modern records began, the...
Kiev: It took two days and a giant crane, but Ukraine on Thursday finally managed to lift its biggest remaining statue of Soviet...
Brasília: Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in Thursday as chief of staff to his embattled successor Dilma Rousseff...
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (R) welcomes Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades before to their bilateral meeting at the EU Headquarters in Brussels on...
Mohamed al-Zawahiri Cairo: The brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, under investigation for allegedly calling for the creation of a "terrorist group", was...
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs building. Beijing: Taiwan faces increasing diplomatic isolation after China announced Thursday it will resume ties with the island's...
CapAfghan actors perform in a play depicting the 2015 lynching of Afghan woman Farkhunda, in Kabul on March 17, 2016. AFP / SHAH...
UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria Staffan de Mistura (centre L) speaks with former Syrian deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil (2nd...
Jakarta: Indonesia's central bank Thursday cut its key interest rate for the third straight month, encouraged by lower inflation and a stronger currency...
Amer al-Halloush, a member of of the Syrian Democratic Council, an alliance formed in December as the political branch of the Kurdish-Arab fighting...
Khartoum: Sudan warned Thursday it could shut its border with South Sudan just weeks after reopening crossings, accusing Juba of backing insurgents battling...
Salalah: The Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Tourism will launch mobile tourist vehicles project at Port Salalah on March 20. The project will...
Former German intelligence agent Markus Reichel, who worked for the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), admitted to handing over documents to the CIA and...