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Twenty-seven-year-old Akayed Ullah set off an explosion in an underground pedestrian corridor between New York's Times Square and the Port Authority Bus Terminal at rush hour on Monday, injuring himself and three others in what New York Mayor Bill de Blas...

There were fresh protests in the Middle East and elsewhere on Sunday over US President Donald Trump's controversial decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a move that drew global condemnation and sparked days of unrest in the Palestinian ter...

The young and dynamic crown prince, known by his initials MBS, used an intermediary to buy the much-sought-after painting of Christ, "Salvator Mundi"

It said the US move violates the international law, several resolutions of UN Security Council over the matter, and global consensus on how to resolve the Palestine conflict.

The bill cleared the upper house last month and had been expected to pass on Thursday after Turnbull's Liberal-National coalition government and the main opposition Labor Party had previously said they wanted to pass it by December 7.

The United Arab Emirates will have to do more to address the European Union's concerns about tax transparency in order to get itself removed from a tax-haven blacklist, the EU's ambassador to the UAE said on Wednesday.

Since President Donald Trump took office in January, the US has abandoned or threatened to quit several international accords under his "America First" policy.

Former US President Barack Obama is speaking at the 15th HT Leadership Summit partnered by CNN-News18, in his first visit to India since handing over power to Donald Trump.

Israeli tanks and aircraft struck militant positions in the Gaza Strip on Thursday soon after Palestinian militants fired mortar shells at an Israeli military post close to the territory, the Israeli army said.

"We did not realise that it would take the public by storm and create such an outcry," says Dene Friedmann, a specialist nurse on the cardiovascular team, standing in the same Cape Town operating theatre where the medical feat took place.

Donald Trump on Wednesday took the social media by storm when he retweeted inflammatory anti-Muslim videos by Britain First, a group founded in 2011 by former members of the far-right British National Party (BNP).

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali appealed in September for international support to transport Rohingya to the island.

The Syrian government now holds 55 percent of the country, including major cities Damascus, Aleppo, Homs and Hama, and around two-thirds of the population lives in regime-held areas.

Mugabe's fall after 37 years in power was spurred by a battle to succeed him that pitted Mnangagwa, who had stood by him for 52 years, and Mugabe's wife Grace, who is 52.

Faced with a burgeoning humanitarian crisis, the two governments signed a pact on Thursday agreeing that the return of the Rohingya to Myanmar should start within two months.

The tiger was part of a circus being staged at Jingziguan in China's Henan province on Wednesday.