Paris: One journalist is killed every four-and-a-half days, according to a shocking report released by Unesco on Wednesday. During the last decade, 827 journalists have been killed while on the job, the Unesco director-general's report said. The worst hit areas were Arab states including Syria, Ir

PESHAWAR, Pakistan A Pakistani court on Wednesday denied bail to Sharbat Gula, who was arrested for illegally living in Pakistan and is best known as the green-eyed Afghan girl who posed for a National Geographic magazine photograph 30 years ago.Gula, now in her 40s, became a symbol of her country's

HERAT, Afghanistan Gunmen rounded up and shot dozens of civilians in a remote part of Afghanistan on Tuesday, UN officials said, in an attack that prompted angry protests from residents about government failure to protect them. The provincial governor's spokesman blamed fighters from Islamic State f

Addressing the party's National Council, she said, "Awami League must come back to power to take the nation forward towards its goal of becoming a poverty-free nation." Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was on Sunday re-elected unopposed as the ruling Awami League’s president, asked

TOKYO: Two apparent explosions hit the Japanese city of Utsunomiya back-to-back on Sunday, killing one person and injuring three others in what police are viewing as a possible suicide. Japanese media reports suggest that the victim, believed to be a 72-year-old former military officer, may have

St Louis: US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has said the US was not at “war with Islam”. The Democratic nominee also accused her rival Donald Trump of making statements that were a “gift to the ISIS”.  In the second presidential debate, Clinton used the phrase “violent jihadist terrorists”

Hurricane Matthew: The storm was likely to remain a Category 4 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity as it approached the United States. Hurricane Matthew pelted Florida with heavy rains as the deadly storm steamed ever closer to the coast with potentially catastrophic winds

Stockholm, 4 Oct. 2016: British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for revealing the secrets of exotic matter such as superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with no loss to resistance. The Roy

Montreal ,23 September 2016(IANS ): A Muslim woman in Canada, who was denied a court appearance because of her hijab, sought legal clarification on the rights of Quebecers, who want access to justice while wearing religious attire. Rania El-Alloul's lawyer appeared in Quebec Superior Court on Thu

But he won’t reveal it as he doesn’t want the ‘enemy’ to know it; Hillary vows to attack IS from air, ground and online. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump escaped yet again without offering any details of his foreign policy and national security ideas, with his blustering, filibust

Vientiane: US President Barack Obama on Thursday called Donald Trump “wacky” and “uninformed” after the Republican candidate said Russia’s President Putin was a better leader. Speaking in Laos, according to BBC, Obama said that every time Trump spoke it became clearer that the Republican contende

Washington: Abid R. Qureshi, has been nominated today by President Obama for serving as a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Mr. Qureshi is the first American Muslim to be nominated to serve on the federal judiciary. Farhana Khera, former counsel to the U

The east coast of New Zealand was hit by a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake on Thursday, generating a small tsunami, but officials said there was no significant damage or injuries. A swarm of aftershocks, several of nearly 6.0 magnitude, rocked the region for many hours after the initial jolt as

Ramallah: Israel companies have approved plans to organise a beer festival on the grounds of the historic Islamic cemetery of Maaman Allah in occupied Jerusalem on this week. The Maaman Allah cemetery  is believed to date back to the 7th century, and it houses the remains of many important figure

ANKARA: A Kurdish militant suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a checkpoint near a police station in southeast Turkey on Friday, killing at least 11 police officers and wounding 78 other people, the prime minister said. The attack struck the checkpoint 50 meters (yards) from a ma

Minneapolis: A 21 year old father has been charged with second-degree murder after he admitted to punching his 4-month old daughter to death for making ‘baby noises.’ The accused identified as Cory Morris was arrested on Saturday evening after he called 911 and confessed to hitting baby 22 times

SYDNEY: MH370 plunged into the ocean at high speed — up to 20,000 feet a minute — reinforcing analysis that the missing Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in the current search zone, a report said on Tuesday. The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 peop

Tehran: Iran said Thursday it had hanged 20 Sunni prisoners, in one of the Islamic republic’s biggest mass executions in recent years. The men, who were hanged on Tuesday, were accused of carrying out a string of attacks against civilians and religious leaders in Iran’s western Kurdish region, st