The Islamic State group released propaganda images yesterday that purport to show militants laying explosives in and then blowing up the 2,000-year-old temple of Baalshamin in Syria’s ancient caravan city
A Russian court convicted a prominent Ukrainian filmmaker yesterday of conspiring to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison in what critics called a politically motivated
Russia yesterday canceled a ban on the Russian-language Wikipedia, which barely lasted a few hours and caused a storm among Russian online users. The Russian communications watchdog sent out notifications
The hacking of the cheating website Ashley Madison has triggered extortion crimes and led to two unconfirmed reports of suicides, Canadian police said yesterday (Macau time). The company behind Ashley Madison
The bare-footed runner completed the distance in a time of 14 minutes and 48.07 seconds - 10 seconds faster than the previous record. Budd came in nine seconds ahead of second-placed
Hartford Stage in Connecticut said yesterday that the movie star will headline the haunting tale of a man in a wheelchair who witnesses a possible murder. It’s been adapted for
Travel agencies booking group trips to Macau and Hong Kong will be urged to use digital forms for government approval starting on Sept 1, in a move aimed at curbing
CHINA is considering offering criminals who helped repel Japanese invaders more than 70 years ago a get-out-of-jail-free card now. Legislation proposed as part of events marking the end of World
Islamic State militants have destroyed a temple at Syria’s ancient ruins of Palmyra, activists said Sunday, realizing the worst fears archaeologists had for the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city after the extremists seized it
Three Americans and a Briton who tackled an attacker loaded with guns and ammunition prevented carnage on the high-speed train carrying 500 passengers to Paris, France’s president said yesterday as
In a new human wave surging through the Balkans, thousands of exhausted migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa crossed on foot yesterday from Macedonia into Serbia on their way to
Neptune is over two billion miles from Earth - the most distant planet in our solar system. Scientists at Mission Control in Florida have called it the “culmination of the greatest
Tossed into the North Sea sometime between 1904 and 1906, the bottle washed up on the beach on the German island of Amrum, and was found by a couple in
NEPAL has opened Mount Everest to climbers for the first time since an earthquake-triggered avalanche in April killed 19 mountaineers and ended the popular spring climbing season. Japanese climber Nobukazu
The first major historical art survey of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra’s infamous Donner Pass takes an ambitious trip through two centuries, highlighting the roles of Native Americans and railroad
Thousands of tired and beleaguered migrants — mostly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans fleeing conflict — boarded trains and buses in Macedonia that took them one step closer to the European
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond reopened the British Embassy in Tehran yesterday, nearly four years after it was closed following an attack by hard-liners. Hammond arrived in Tehran yesterday to attend
A man who boarded a high-speed Amsterdam-to-Paris train with a Kalashnikov rifle before being tackled by passengers was on the radar of authorities in three countries, had ties to radical
They have refused to give details but it has emerged that two of Mr Jackson’s homes were searched at the weekend following allegations of child abuse. It is reported that the
Bursts of ash spew from the snow-encircled crater of the Cotopaxi Volcano and fall in gusts on this village where the locals struggle to herd sheep and cattle to safety. Capped
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