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Tehran: More than 100 students were hospitalised in Iran after a new spate of suspected gas attacks on girls' schools Wednesday, media outlets in the Islamic republic reported. Hundreds of cases of...

Hyderabad, India: Indian director S.S. Rajamouli's films are all-singing, all-dancing spectacles -- and he is now a favourite to secure the first ever Oscar for an all-Indian film.His three-hour...

Rome: More than 40 migrants, including a baby just a few months old, died after their overloaded boat sank early on Sunday in stormy seas off Italy's southern Calabria region, rescue services said."At...

Turkey's largest city Istanbul, which sits close to a major fault line, needs an urgent urbanization program worth" around $30 [billion] to $40 billion" to prepare for an anticipated major quake,...

Just like in the World Cup final, Paris Saint-Germain teammates Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe go up against one another for The Best FIFA Men's Player prize for 2022 on Monday, with Ballon d'Or Karim...

Ottawa - The Canadian capital's iconic Rideau Canal Skateway -- the largest outdoor rink in the world and a UNESCO heritage site -- may not open this winter for the first time in five decades, due to...

Kyiv, Ukraine: US President Joe Biden on Monday made a surprise trip to Kyiv, promising increased arms deliveries for Ukraine and unflagging support ahead of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion...

India's Ravindra Jadeja took seven wickets to dismiss Australia for 113 on a dramatic Sunday morning that left the hosts needing just 115 to win the second Test.The tourists collapsed from their...

New Zealand redeployed gunships and helicopters to deliver water, food and fuel to cities cut off by Cyclone Gabrielle on Thursday, as overwhelmed rescue teams embraced overseas offers of help. Five...

Rescuers dug with heavy machinery Thursday to find two men trapped for more than 24 hours after a utility vehicle plunged down a "void" in a remote Australian zinc mine.The missing pair are believed...

Frankfurt - Workers at seven German airports, including the busy hubs of Frankfurt and Munich, will stage a one-day strike on Friday to push their demand for higher wages, the Verdi trade union...

New Delhi: India on Sunday inaugurated the first stage of its longest expressway, a route linking New Delhi and Mumbai, as it makes a concerted infrastructure push to catch up with geopolitical rival...

Rescuers pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after an earthquake devastated Turkey and Syria and killed more than 28,000.UN relief chief Martin...

A mouse named after "Star Trek" actor Patrick Stewart is officially the world's oldest in captivity, a US zoo has announced.Pat the Pacific pocket mouse -- the smallest species of mouse in North...

Rescuers pulled children from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake on Saturday as the death toll approached 24,000 and a winter freeze compounded the suffering of millions of people, many in...

Rescuers scoured debris in a desperate search for survivors on Friday four days after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing nearly 22,000 people, as the United States offered an...

Freezing temperatures deepened the misery Thursday for survivors of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria that killed more than 16,000 people, as rescuers raced to save countless people still...

Two pilots have made a "miraculous" escape after their Boeing 737 water-bombing plane crashed and burned while fighting a blaze in remote Western Australia.The plane left a long scar in the scrub- and...

Families in southern Turkey and Syria spent a second night in the freezing cold on Wednesday as overwhelmed rescuers raced to pull people from the rubble two days after a massive earthquake that...

Santa Cruz, United States: As devastating storms pounded California, nature lovers feared for endangered monarch butterflies that winter there as part of a seemingly magical migration pattern.The...