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At least 107 people were killed when a crane toppled over at Mecca's Grand Mosque on Friday, less than two weeks before Islam's annual haj pilgrimage.

The description given by IS insurgents of a Chinese citizen they claim to have captured matches a Chinese missing abroad, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a media briefing.

Australia will accept 12,000 refugees from Syria on top of its current humanitarian intake quota and extend air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq into Syria.

Kibbutz Barkai, one of many agriculture-based collective communities in Israel, is located close to a small township of Harish, which has come to be identified with followers of Lord Krishna popularly known as "Hare Krishnas".

With tensions growing, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday they had agreed the EU should now require member states to take in a fixed number of migrants.

The picture depicted the dark-haired toddler, wearing a bright-red T-shirt and shorts, washed up on a beach, lying face down in the surf not far from Turkey’s fashionable resort town of Bodrum.

Two months after foreign countries and international agencies pledged $4.1 billion to help Nepal recover from its worst natural disaster, the government has yet to make arrangements to receive the money and has spent nothing on reconstruction.

Raleigh in North Carolina is hosting the third World Kannada meet from September 4- 6.

According to the indictment, through his employment at JP Morgan, Aggarwal allegedly obtained material, inside information about two J P Morgan-advised deals.

A suspected jihadist gunman overpowered by passengers on a packed Amsterdam-Paris train had visited Syria and was known to intelligence services in several European countries, officials have said.

Typhoon Goni slightly weakened Saturday as it lashed the northern Philippines with strong rain and wind that set off landslides and flooded low-lying villages, leaving at least seven people dead and two others missing, officials said.

President Barack Obama is promising Democratic lawmakers that the US will continue to keep economic pressure on Iran, and keep military options open, if his administration's nuclear deal with Tehran goes through. Obama, in a letter addressed to New York D...

The Red Shirts are a grassroots network of the rural and urban poor, particularly from the country's northeast, that support Yingluck and her ousted prime minister brother Thaksin Shinawatra.

On Monday, rescuers raced to reach debris in remote eastern Indonesian mountains believed to be from a plane that crashed carrying 54 people and cash worth almost half a million dollars.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day visit to UAE, on Monday visited the city of Masdar, which is a planned city project in Abu Dhabi.