AMMAN: At least 18 people, mainly children and teachers on a school outing, were killed on Thursday in a flash flood near the Dead Sea in Jordan. Up to 34 people were rescued in

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte removed all top customs bureau officials, including the chief, a day after the agency failed to intercept more than a tonne of drugs. Duterte said on Thursday that Customs Commissioner Isidro

Months after the completion of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, all eyes are on Qatar as it prepares to host football's mega event in 2022. The tiny Gulf nation will be the

American photographer Brad Goldpaint beat thousands of amateur and professional photographers from around the globe to win the Royal Observatory Greenwich's title of Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2018. As well as

A filmmaker from Ukraine, who has been jailed in Russia, has won a major prize for defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. The European Parliament has awarded its annual Sakharov Prize to Oleg Sentsov.

The British government has apologised to a group of migrants seeking to live and work in the United Kingdom after a review found that their applications were rejected when they refused to give DNA

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi Cabinet met outside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Thursday for the first time in 15 years. The meeting, chaired by new Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, followed an

The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions said the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi bears the hallmark of an extrajudicial execution, and those who orchestrated his murder "are high

Rights groups are ramping up pressure against Saudi Arabia’s leadership calling on the international community to close its doors on arms sales after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and over the war in Yemen.

Budapest's Central European University (CEU), a school founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, has announced that it is being forced to relocate most of its programmes to the Austrian capital Vienna after the Hungarian