Sydney, Nov 19 (AFP/APP): The family of Australian academic Timothy Weeks said they were 'overjoyed' at his release by the Taliban in an Afghanistan prisoner swap that came three years
Kabul, Nov 20 (AFP/APP): Two American service members have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, US forces there said Wednesday, adding that the crash appeared to be an
LOS ANGELES, Nov 20 (Xinhua/APP): NASA is testing an underwater robotic explorer in Antarctica this month to look for life under the ice, according to a release of NASA's Jet
Valletta, Nov 20 (AFP/APP): Malta on Wednesday arrested a prominent businessman in connection with the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the day after an alleged middleman was offered a
TEHRAN, Nov 20 (XINHUA/APP):Calm has been restored in Iran after days of protests following the government's decision to ration subsidized gasoline and increase its prices, semi-official FARS News Agency reported
Dubai, Nov 20 (AFP/APP): Emirates Airline on Wednesday slimmed down its purchasing plans with Boeing amid delays in delivering an order of 156 of the new long-range 777X aircraft, substituting
Athens, Nov 20 (AFP/APP): Greece will shut down the three largest of its overcrowded migrant camps on islands facing Turkey, and replace them with new closed facilities with much larger
Frankfurt am Main, Nov 20 (AFP/APP): An assailant has stabbed to death the son of former German president Richard von Weizsaecker in attack at a Berlin hospital that left one
Hong Kong, Nov 20 (AFP/APP): Chinese online retail titan Alibaba said Wednesday it could raise almost $13 billion in Hong Kong's biggest IPO for nearly a decade after announcing the
JERUSALEM, Nov 20 (XINHUA/APP):Israeli fighter jets attacked "dozens" of sites in Syria in "a wide-scale" airstrike on Wednesday, retaliating rocket fire from Syria a day before, the Israeli military said.