For one Iraqi lieutenant, the fight against the Islamic State group in Mosul has been a slow, methodical quest for revenge. For three years, he has
Police say an officer using a stun gun to restrain a naked man accidentally set the man’s chest hair and beard on fire. Officers found the 32-year-old
Eight soldiers on ceremonial duty have been killed in two IRA bomb blasts in central London. The first blast, in Hyde Park, killed two soldiers and
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The World Series of Poker is down to its final nine. The final table for the marquee no-limit Texas Hold ‘em main event in Las Vegas
Hunkered down in sniper positions on the top floor of an abandoned building in the Syrian city of Raqqa, two Americans and a British volunteer face off
Hungary’s collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II was a “mistake” and a “sin” as it failed to protect its Jewish community, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor
I’m addicted to cutting trees,” says Taban Ceasor. His stained hands sift through jagged pieces of charcoal in his busy shop in South Sudan’s capital. But the
An American expat in Thailand who is a YouTube star with 3.29 million subscribers is in hot water for posting a video of an age-old practice among kids:
The former leader of the Republic of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, has died in exile in the US state of Hawaii at the age of 90. In
US-IRAN The Trump administration slapped 18 Iranian individuals and groups with sanctions yesterday for aiding the country’s non-nuclear weapons programs, in a bid to show that
Doctors intending to perform cataract surgery on a 67-year-old woman in Britain found something rather unexpected: 17 contact lenses mashed together in her right eye. In a
A court in Istanbul ordered six human rights activists — including Amnesty International’s Turkey director — formally arrested yesterday pending a trial over accusations that they aided an armed terror
Foes of President Nicolas Maduro said more than 7 million Venezuelans cast symbolic votes rejecting his plan to retool the constitution in a strong but
Talks to extricate Britain from the European Union began yesterday with both sides still seemingly far apart on citizens’ rights after Brexit officially takes place in less than
A young Saudi woman has sparked a sensation online by posting a video of herself in a miniskirt and crop top walking around in public, with some Saudis
Nearly 200 people are in hospital in Dublin after a hunger strike demonstration turned violent. The march through the Irish capital began peacefully as 10,000 took
SINGAPORE home sales fell 21 percent in June from the previous month as fewer new projects were launched in the city-state. Developers sold 820 units last month,
A baboon in Zambia has interfered with machinery at a power station in a tourist town near Victoria Falls, knocking out power to tens of thousands of people
George Romero, whose classic “Night of the Living Dead” and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh-devouring undead
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