English

BEIRUT: In what seemed to be a private locker conversation, may seriously hinder US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s bid at attaining the U.S. presidency. A leaked conversation between Trump and former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush dating back to 2005 caused offense and outrage […]

Heavy flooding has occurred in North Carolina after Hurricane Matthew dumped more than a foot (30cm) of rain into parts of the state. The hurricane and its aftermath have been blamed for at least 35 deaths in the the US so far, at least 17 […]

MOSCOW — As the damage continues to mount from Syria’s Russia-backed offensive on Aleppo, so does the political fallout from the failed cease-fire agreement. Russia’s parliament is suspending an agreement with the United States for converting weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants. If […]

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at the party’s top elected official and other Republicans for abandoning his campaign, while acknowledging that it is “hard to do well” when they are giving him “zero support.” Trump, in a series of postings on […]

For the first few years of life, boys and girls are mostly equal. They develop mentally at about the same rate, are disciplined similarly and are equally likely to start school, a new UNICEF study says. But the study suggests that gender differences begin to […]

President Barack Obama says the US will work with private companies on its plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. President Obama announced his proposals for a crewed mission to the Red Planet in 2010. But Nasa’s plan to realise this presidential vision […]

Hoping for a safe haven after fleeing the Islamic State in Iraq, many Yazidis who came to Turkey are instead finding a difficult and uncertain life. Confined mostly to Kurdish municipality-administered camps, they lack official refugee status, which leaves them in a legal limbo with […]

MANBIJ, SYRIA — Children in a Syrian town freed in August from the Islamic State militants are back in their regular classrooms after a near three-year absence. “I’m really grateful to see children back in their seats,” said Ahmed Hassan, a teacher at one of […]

At least 14 people have been killed in an attack on a shrine in the Afghan capital, Kabul as Shia Muslims prepared for a religious day of mourning. A crowd had gathered at the Karte Sakhi shrine for Ashura, a commemoration of the martyrdom of […]