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

Japan on Saturday marked the 71st anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima that led to the end of World War Two. About 50,000 people attended a ceremony at Hiroshima's Peace Park near the bomb's epicenter. Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on world leaders to visit the site, like U.S. Pre

Three men in Florida have been arrested on charges of conspiring to join the terror group Islamic State (IS). The three suspects, all residents of the Palm Beach County, were charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support and resources to IS, according to a complaint filed in

Cleveland, July 20 Thirteen months after launching an improbable bid for the White House, Donald Trump captured the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, having vanquished 16 party rivals, warred with much of its establishment and provoked controversy at every turn. His eldest chil

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said Ankara has demanded return of eight coup attempter soldiers , who landed on Alexandroupolis in Greece and that Athens accepted the former's request. "The Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias told me on the phone that they will return the eight tr

Ulaanbaatar, July 14 (ANI): Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Thursday evening reachedUlaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. He was received by Head of Presidential Admin, Mongolia at the airport. Vice-President Ansari is leading the India delegation for two-day 11th Asia Europe Meeting-

A Chinese satellite may be free-wheeling through space, and could make an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. China's first ever space station - Tiangong-1 - was launched in 2011 and was due to be brought down into the ocean in a controlled crash. But it has been reported that C

Dhaka: The Bangladesh government on Sunday decided to close down Peace TV, a Mumbai-based channel run by controversial Islamic Preacher Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation. Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said his ministry will evaluate the issue and adopt administrative measures to tak

UN expresses concern as Suu Kyi government has done little to protect minorities and quell rioting Another mosque has been razed in Myanmar, the second in just over a week. The destruction has been blamed on rising Buddhist nationalism. That in itself is ironical. The intrinsic core of Buddhism i

London : A ban on burqas has been enforced in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino region with anyone wearing a full face veil being subjected to fines. The authorities in Ticino rolled out the restriction on July 1, banning people from wearing the burqas in shops, restaurants and public buildin

By: Reuters | Karachi | Updated: July 9, 2016 10:43 pm Pakistani philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, revered as a “living saint”, was buried on the outskirts of Karachi on Saturday after a state funeral attended by thousands of people. [caption id="attachment_106093" align="aligncenter" width="7

WARSAW, 8th July 2016 (WAM) ---The European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) have signed an agreement to intensity military and security collaboration in an effort to fight "unprecedented" modern-day security challenges "emanating from the South and East". Addressing a join

An American critic claims this photograph proves why President Obama 'allowed ISIS to run wild' A political commentator reckons previously unseen photographs of Barack Obama in traditional Muslim dress prove he has 'deep emotional ties' to Islam. Fox host Bill O'Reilly claims the photo

DHAKA: Bangladeshi forces stormed an upscale Dhaka restaurant to end a hostage-taking by heavily armed militants early Saturday, killing six of the attackers and rescuing 13 captives including foreigners. The military said 20 of the hostages had been killed during the 10-hour standoff, and officials