United Nations: More than 130 countries voted on Thursday to upgrade Palestine to a non-member observer state of the UN, a triumph for Palestinian diplomacy and a sharp rebuke to the United States and Israel. But the vote, at least for now, did little to bring either the Palestinians or the Isr

Cairo , Nov 30,2012 : Egypt's constituent assembly has adopted a draft constitution after a marathon all-night session that began shortly afternoon on Thursday and ran through until Friday morning. The assembly - boycotted by liberals and Christians - has been accused of rushing through approval

Protesters pack Tahrir Square to call for a second revolution as they say nothing has changed under Islamist president Cairo: Egypt’s Court of Cassation, the final appeals court, will suspend operations until the revocation of President Mohammad Mursi’s decree granting himself additional powers,

A Chinese company thinks they've simplified the construction process so much that they can build the world's tallest skyscraper in 90 days. Broad Sustainable Building Corporation will lay the foundation for their "Sky City" project this month. The company, famous for building tall buildings in ri

Cairo: EgyptAir stewardesses who campaigned to wear the Muslim headscarf have begun donning the hijab for the first time since the national carrier was founded in 1932, a company official said on Sunday. The first flight attendants dressed in the hijab, which mainstream clerics say is mandatory,

CHICAGO: US President Barack Obama told cheering supporters early Wednesday that "the best is yet to come" for the United States as he stormed to a second term by defeating Republican Mitt Romney. After taking the stage at a raucous Chicago victory party with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha a

San Francisco - 15 Sep 2012:Googlerejected a request by theWhite Houseon Friday to reconsider its decision to keep online a controversialYouTube movie clipthat has ignited anti-American protests in the Middle East.The internet company said it was censoring the video in India andIndonesiaafter blocki

Sanaa - 13 Sep 2012: Yemeni police on Thursday shot dead a protester and wounded five others when they opened fire on a crowd attempting to storm the US embassy in Sanaa to protest a film mocking Islam, a security official said.The shooting came as protesters, chanting "O, messenger of Allah ... O,

Benghazi - 12 Sep 2012: The US ambassador to Libyaand three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by militants denouncing a US-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad.US PresidentBarack Obamahas

Washington - 26 Aug 2012: US astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took agiant leap for mankindwhen he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday.Armstrong died following complications from heart-bypass surgery he underwent earlier this month, the fam

Calling Pakistan a 'sham democracy', disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan has said that the country's "elites toe the American line and behave like foreign agents." In a no holds barred attack on the Pakistani government, Khan voiced his support for the judiciary which is engaged in a bitter tussle

As a fresh confrontation appeared imminent between Pakistan's PPP government and the judiciary, former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has warned that this time the ruling party will not take any "unconstitutional" move by the Supreme Court against his successor "lying down". Mr. Gilani, the vice-chairma

Dammam - 13 Aug 2012:The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is one of the key issues to be discussed at the Islamic solidarity summit convened by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in Makkah on Aug. 14-15. With just two days to go for the conclave of the world's most import

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake levelled villages and damaged homes in north-western Iran on Saturday, killing at least 180 people and injuring more than 1,350 others, state TV reported. The quake hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province at 4.53 p.m. local time (GMT 12.23), t

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and Emine Erdo?an, the Turkish prime minister's wife, on Friday visited Rohingya Muslims staying in the Banduba refugee camp in the Myanmar coastal state of Rakhine. Apart from the United Nations, this is the first instance of foreign aid being distributed to

Pakistan Peoples' Party-led dispensation's effort to provide immunity to senior government functionaries for their executive actions by amending the contempt law came to naught on Friday with the Supreme Court declaring the legislation "unconstitutional." A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice

Chinese authorities in the northwestern province of Xinjiang have banned Muslim officials and students from fasting during the month of Ramadan, prompting an exiled rights group to warn of new violence. Guidance posted on numerous government websites called on Communist Party leaders to restrict Mus

Occupied Jerusalem - Imposing more restrictions to stifle Palestinians in the holy month of Ramadan, Israel limited access to Al-Aqsa mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan, denying the right of thousands of Palestinians to visit the holy mosque in the blessed day. "Among those aged 45 to 50 years, o