LONDON: Society beauty Cressida Bonas was not ready for life in the royal spotlight but remains on good terms with Prince Harry, British newspapers said Wednesday after the couple reportedly split. Sources said the break-up might only be temporary while ...

PERTH, Australia: The intensive aerial search for surface wreckage from Flight MH370 officially ended Wednesday as the hunt was drastically scaled back, with ships also moving out of the remote Indian Ocean area where the plane is believed to have gone ...

TRIPOLI: Gunmen stormed the seat of Libya's General National Congress (GNC) in Tripoli Tuesday as it was preparing to elect a new prime minister, an MP said. "Armed men have besieged the congress, but we do not know the motive of the attack," Tahar ...

DAMASCUS: Syria's Parliament Sunday said four more candidates, including one woman, had announced their candidacy for the June 3 presidential election widely expected to be won by President Bashar Assad. The new hopefuls bring the total number of ...

PITTSBURGH, United States: Previously unknown digital work made by pop artist Andy Warhol was resurrected from aging floppy disks by forensic computer experts from Carnegie Mellon University, the school announced Thursday. A dozen newly ...

PITTSBURGH, United States: Previously unknown digital work made by pop artist Andy Warhol was resurrected from aging floppy disks by forensic computer experts from Carnegie Mellon University, the school announced Thursday. A dozen newly ...

BEIRUT: Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil headed to Cairo Wednesday to attend an Arab League meeting on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an urgent meeting of the Arab League to discuss the issue.

RAMALLAH, Palestine: Washington said Wednesday it was endeavoring to put Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations back on track despite recent “unhelpful, unilateral actions” by both sides. A surprise decision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ...

The Turkish lira weakened following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to block access to Twitter nine days before local elections. The currency dropped by as much as 0.7 percent before trading 0.4 percent weaker at 2.2387 per dollar during ...

With the third anniversary of the start of Syria's civil war having just passed, there is a race against time to deliver a groundbreaking education project to the conflict's hardest-hit victims – hundreds of thousands of child refugees. A shocking 3 million Syrian ...

PRETORIA: Months before he killed his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius said he drew his gun and went into “combat mode” after thinking he heard the noise of an intruder at his home, which turned out to be a washing machine, a South African guns expert testified ...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Monday told Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas that both he and Israeli leaders must make tough political decisions and take "risks" for peace. Meeting Obama at the White House, Abbas said Israel's release of ...

GAZA CITY, Palestine: Israeli warplanes pounded 29 Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip Thursday night in response to heavy Palestinian rocket fire into the Jewish state earlier, the military said. Palestinian eyewitnesses, including an AFP photographer, said ...

Scientists have identified four new man-made gases that are contributing to the depletion of the ozone layer. Two of the gases are accumulating at a rate that is causing concern among researchers. Worries over the growing ozone hole have seen the ...

BEIRUT: Thirteen nuns were freed late Sunday by Syrian rebels in exchange for the release by Damascus of more than 150 Syrian women prisoners following Lebanese and Qatari mediation, officials said, putting an end to an ordeal that lasted more than ...

JUBA: Gunfire erupted inside the main military barracks in the South Sudanese capital Juba on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, almost three months after fighting between soldiers in the city sparked a broader conflict. The body of a government soldier ...

SINGAPORE: The soaring cost of cars and utilities as well as a strong currency have made Singapore the world's most expensive city, toppling Tokyo from the top spot, according to a survey Tuesday. Tokyo's weakening yen saw it slide to sixth place, the ...

CAIRO: Egypt's new prime minister said Sunday that security was his cabinet's top priority, as security forces have faced near daily attacks since the July ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. In his first address to the nation, Ibrahim Mahlab, a former ...