MAKKAH: Bushra Shah, a 35-year-old Pakistani, says she is realizing a childhood dream by making the great pilgrimage to holy Makkah, and under new rules she’s doing it without a male “guardian”. The hajj ministry has officially allowed women of...

PARIS: Carbon emissions are set to hit an all-time high by 2023 as just two percent of pandemic recovery finance is being spent on clean energy, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday. Countries have allocated more than $16 trillion (14 tril...

BEIRUT: A Lebanon prosecutor has summoned central bank chief Riad Salameh for questioning next month over graft allegations, the latest of several cases brought against him, a judicial source said. Riad Salameh, one of world’s longest-serving c...

BAGHDAD: The Islamic State group claimed responsibility early Tuesday for a suicide bombing that ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital ahead of Eid holiday celebrations, killing nearly 30 people, according to medical sources. In a message...

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden sought to tamp down concern about spiraling prices that threaten to dent the US economic recovery, saying the current inflation rise is “temporary” and not a long-term problem. He also said one of the best ...

Britney Spears’ lawyer is moving “aggressively and expeditiously” to remove her father from the controversial guardianship controlling her affairs, he said Monday.The attorney updated reporters after a very brief Los Angeles court h...

Britain’s Prince Harry is penning an intimate and honest memoir that will expose the “mistakes” and “lessons learned” across his life, publisher Penguin Random House said Monday. The announcement comes at a time of strai...

French luxury conglomerate LVMH said Tuesday it intends to take a majority stake in the luxury streetwear label Off-White created by Virgil Abloh, the first black American creative director of a top French fashion house. LVMH will take a 60 percent s...

Mumbai police have arrested Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra for allegedly producing and broadcasting pornographic films online, six years after the businessman was banned from cricket-related activities over match-fixing charg...

KABUL: At least three rockets landed near the Afghan presidential palace on Tuesday as the country’s leader Ashraf Ghani held outdoor prayers with top officials to mark the start of the Muslim Eid Al-Adha holiday. Although there was no immediate cl...