The attack on his convoy, apparently by a lone gunman, killed one man and wounded at least 10, significantly raising the stakes in a political crisis that has gripped the South Asian nation since Khan's ousting in April. Khan "was stable and he was...

The airline, partly owned by the government as well as Dutch carrier KLM, is one of the continent's biggest, connecting multiple nations within Africa to Europe and Asia, but it is facing turbulent times. The Kenya Airlines Pilots Association (KALP...

The Paris-born politician is odds-on to be selected by members of the anti-immigration National Rally (RN) party as their new president at a congress on Saturday. Le Pen decided to step back from the role after 11 years at the helm. Formerly known ...

Now two regeneration projects are sparking controversy, protests and fears that a gentrification drive will forever alter the 19th century district's bohemian character. Construction is underway on a new metro station on Exarcheia Square -- for yea...

New Zealand were cruising at 174-3 in the 19th over when the left-arm quick removed Williamson, James Neesham and Mitchell Santner on successive balls in Adelaide. It was the second hat-trick of this edition of the World Cup after Karthik Meiyappan...

Karin Smirnoff, who already had four novels under her belt, is continuing the celebrated series originally created by Stieg Larsson. His fame came posthumously -- he died in 2004, a year before the release of the first book in the saga, "The Girl w...

Tied at halftime -- the first time this season they had not led after two quarters -- the Eagles out-scored the Texans 15-3 in the second half to pull away, intercepting Texans quarterback Davis Mills twice to seize the victory. It was some consola...

His club Tottenham said the forward suffered a fracture around his left eye and will have surgery, less than three weeks before the country's opening match in Qatar. The nasty injury, which Son picked up in a Champions League win over Marseille ear...

Today the man behind the initiative hopes the success of the rural Makthar boarding school can serve as a model to improve the crumbling public school sector in the small North African nation. Entrepreneur Lotfi Hamadi, 46, founder of the "Wallah (...

The pontiff landed in the tiny island kingdom on Thursday afternoon, delivering a speech critical of the use of the death penalty and urging nations to respect human rights and provide better conditions for workers. Rights groups had previously cal...

A highly competitive Group 1 is set to go down to the wire with New Zealand, England and hosts Australia fighting it out to reach the semi-finals. New Zealand and England currently occupy the top two spots in the group with one round of games left,...

Seoul and Washington, which have warned Pyongyang's recent launches could culminate in a nuclear test, extended their largest-ever joint air drills through Saturday in response to the flurry of projectiles. Shortly after that decision was announced...

In early October, supervisors suddenly warned him that 3,000 colleagues had been taken into quarantine after someone tested positive for Covid-19 at the factory. "They told us not to take our masks off," Zhang, speaking under a pseudonym for fear o...

After leading an energetic campaign centred on security and Jewish identity, Ben-Gvir celebrated as his Religious Zionism alliance achieved third place -- and likely kingmaker status -- in the November 1 vote. "It's time that we returned to be the ...

The deadly disaster struck in August near Karbala when tonnes of soggy earth and rock collapsed onto the Shiite shrine Qattarat al-Imam Ali, dedicated to the imam's journey on his way to battle in AD 657. By the time the search-and-rescue effort w...