Ex-army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed to to tackle "terrorism" and bring security, after being sworn in as Egypt's new president. He said his election after a landslide win in May was "a historic moment", and pledged no reconciliation with those who had "committed violence". The retired f

A 1,000-feet wide “beast” travelling at a speed of 50,400 km-per-hour — enough momentum to wipe out an entire city — will pass by earth on Sunday. The asteroid will safely pass earth at a distance of 1.25 million km — more than three times the distance from earth to the moon. Nicknamed the “Be

Kunduz: Flash floods have killed more than 50 people in northern Afghanistan, washing away hundreds of homes and forcing thousands to flee, officials said Saturday warning that the death toll was expected to rise. The floods in the remote mountainous district of Baghlan province come a month af

An Egyptian court has sentenced 10 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to death for alleged offences including inciting violence and blocking a road. The men were not present to face the charges on Saturday and are believed to be in hiding amid a crackdown by the military-led government. It w

Brussels: Western leaders prepared Thursday to deliver their first face-to-face message to President Vladimir Putin since Moscow seized Crimea - stop meddling in Ukraine or face tougher sanctions.   Leaders of the Group of Seven industrialised nations head from a two-day summit in Brussel

Beirut: It was not so long ago that Bashar Al Assad’s enemies thought he was finished. In the summer of 2012, the rebels were not just at the gates of Damascus, but inside the capital, preying on Al Assad’s harried forces. His government had lost big chunks of Syria’s territory and a s

Manama: Kuwaiti authorities are deporting an Egyptian imam for saying in his Friday sermon that the Egyptian presidential elections had been forged. Kuwait had banned “interfering in the domestic affairs of other countries” by referring to them in sermons and warned of a zero-tolerance policy t

CAIRO: Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt's first freely elected leader, swept to victory in a presidential election, provisional results showed on Thursday, joining a long line of leaders drawn from the military. But a lower than expected turnout figure raised questions about Si

MADRID: Hundreds of people forced their way through razor-wire barriers into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla on Wednesday, highlighting increasing pressure on a rare land-based route into Europe for illegal migrants. More than 1,000 stormed fences into the enclave at around 0400 GMT and

Cairo:  An Egyptian court jailed 19 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi for five years on Saturday for storming the offices of the head of the prestigious Al-Azhar Islamic institution, judicial sources said. The army-installed government has rounded up thousands of Morsi's suppo

Blahodante, Ukraine:  Three days before Ukraine holds a key presidential vote, pro-Russia insurgents attacked a military checkpoint Thursday in eastern Ukraine, killing 13 troops in the deadliest raid yet in weeks of fighting, Ukraine's leader said A rebel group who claimed responsibility for the

Washington:  Once again, the world hit record heat levels. The average global temperature last month tied the hottest April on record four years ago. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday said that last month's average temperature was 58.1 degrees Fahrenheit (14.5 degrees

Scientists at a US university say they have developed a technique to hack into Indian electronic voting machines. After connecting a home-made device to a machine, University of Michigan researchers were able to change results by sending text messages from a mobile. Indian election officials say

Obrenovac, Serbia/MAGLAJ, Bosnia: Communities in Serbia and Bosnia battled to protect towns and power plants on Monday from rising flood waters and landslides that have devastated swathes of both countries and killed dozens of people. Receding waters in some of the areas worst-hit by the heavie

Photo Courtesy: Youtube Sydney: An Australian couple have welcomed the birth of conjoined twins who have separate brains and identical faces but share a body, describing their girls as “little Aussie fighters”, a report said Monday. Sydney couple Renee Young and Simon Howie learnt at a 19-we

MELBOURNE: Concerned over China's assertiveness in the South China sea, Vietnam wants India to "rise quickly" in the region. "We are deeply concerned by Chinese assertiveness in the South China sea. The Chinese navy is acting without provocation. These decisions seem to be taken by the Chinese le

BEIJING: China's escalating dispute with Vietnam over contested waters in the South China Sea sent new shudders through Asia on Thursday as China demanded the withdrawal of Vietnamese ships near a giant Chinese drilling rig and for the first time acknowledged its vessels had blasted the Vietnamese f

HOMS, Syria: The evacuation of rebel-held parts of Homs city began Wednesday under an unprecedented deal which hands back control to the government less than a month before Syria’s presidential election. After nearly two years of government siege, civilians and rebel forces began to leave the Old