The scene outside the Copenhagen cafe, with bullet marked window, where a gunman opened fire, in what is seen as a likely terror attack against a free speech event organized by an artist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. The police believe
A Saudi historian recently defended his country's prohibition against female drivers by saying that women, who drive, "don't care if they are raped on the roadside." Saleh al-Saadoon, claimed that females can be attacked and sexually assaulted if
A passenger bus and a freight train collided at a grade crossing in northern Mexico on Friday, killing at least 16 people and injuring 22. Army soldiers and civil protection workers were present on the scene of the accident where a passenger bus and
Jordanian air force jets bombed the hideouts of Islamic State militants in Syria on Thursday, state television said, resuming the intensified raids that it first launched last week in retaliation for the killing of a pilot. (Photo: AP)
Details were published in the media this week, with the files claiming that London-based HSBC's Swiss division helped clients in more than 200 countries dodge taxes on accounts containing $119 billion (104 billion euros). (Photo: AFP/File)
By rapidly appointing two heirs, Saudi Arabia's King Salman has pressed pause on "succession Sudoku", as one leading local journalist calls speculation over whose star is rising and whose waning in the large and secretive Al Saud ruling family. (
Two Al-Jazeera journalists were freed Friday from an Egyptian prison pending retrial, their families said, after spending more than a year in jail in a case that provoked global uproar. A Cairo court on Thursday ordered the release of Canadian
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The breakfast menu of Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding was revealed for the first time as it went up for auction. The royal couple treated the guests at their reception to marinated salmon, crab, langoustines and organic lamb and the
A brutal police assault on a 57-year-old Indian man in Alabama left him partially paralysed. The incident has been described as "horrible and tragic" by influential US lawmakers who said there are reasons to be concerned over incidents against South
The attack came two weeks after a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan killed 61 people, the deadliest sectarian incident to hit the country in nearly two years. (Photo: AP)
21 people died in a Shiite mosque attack in Pakistan when three heavily armed Taliban militants stormed the Imamia mosque with grenades, Kalashnikovs and explosive suicide vests in Peshawar, the main city in Pakistan's restive northwest, around the