A light-show performance during the opening ceremony of 2013 IHF Super Globe — Qatar at Gharaffa Indoor Stadium yesterday.

A car parked outside Green Garden Restaurant in Mansoura caught fire reportedly after the engine became overheated yesterday afternoon. A Civil Defence team rushed to the spot and doused the blaze. No causalities were

The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Sunday it has opened a probe after residents accused U.N. peacekeepers of killing two people who tried to storm its base in the

The head of a U.N. inquiry into human rights in North Korea challenged Pyongyang on Monday to back its allegation that testimony gathered by his commission in Seoul amounted to "slander" The three-member Commission of

The crimes of fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai were "extremely serious", prosecutors said Monday as his bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power trial began moving into its final stages. The description is a key factor

U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon said Monday there was no time to waste as U.N. experts prepared to investigate a suspected Syrian chemical attack, with Washington suggesting the probe was already too late. "Every hour counts.

Two powerful explosions ripped through neighborhoods near mosques in the northern Lebanon city of Tripoli Friday, state media reported. At least 27 people died and 358 were wounded, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation reported, citing

27 killed, over 350 wounded in Lebanon blasts: minister

A photo journalist in her early 20s was gang-raped in the Indian city of Mumbai, police said on Friday, evoking comparisons to a similar assault in New Delhi in December that led to nationwide

The regime in war-torn Syria came under intense pressure yesterday to allow UN inspectors to probe an alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus which the opposition says killed more than 1,300 people. Footage distributed