US school worker fired over free lunch can have job back - but she might ...
Idaho: A school lunch worker in Idaho who said she was fired for giving a free hot lunch to a hungry student can now have her job back, thanks to the power of international social media, but she's not...
View ArticleIraq to retake Mosul from Islamic State after Ramadi secured, says PM
Baghdad: Iraq's armed forces will move to retake the major northern city of Mosul from Islamic State once they capture the western city of Ramadi, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Friday....
View ArticleSyrian rebel commander reportedly killed in Russian air strike
Beirut: The leader of a powerful Syrian rebel group that controls key suburbs of Damascus was killed in an air strike on Friday, according to activists and local media. ​Zahran Alloush, who headed...
View ArticleTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan 'talks man out of jumping off bridge'
Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan​ has been credited with talking a man out of jumping off a bridge in Istanbul, saving his life. Mr Erdogan's office said the President talked Vezir...
View ArticleBritish astronaut dials wrong number from space
He may have the right stuff, but he got the wrong digits. Timothy Peake, a former British Army Air Corps officer and current European Space Agency astronaut aboard the International Space Station,...
View ArticleUS foreign arms deals up by nearly $13 billion
Washington: Foreign arms sales by the United States jumped by almost $US10 billion ($13 billion) in 2014, about 35 per cent, even as the global weapons market remained flat and competition among...
View ArticleEight fishermen rescued after five days in lifeboat
Rio de Janeiro: Eight fishermen who spent five days on a lifeboat after their vessel sank in the Atlantic Ocean have been rescued off the Brazilian coast. The skipper of another...
View ArticleChina's President is the country's most-travelled leader since Communism
Beijing: This year's list of the world's best-travelled heads of state includes a surprising upstart. Chinese President Xi Jinping visited 14 countries in 2015, more than US President Barack Obama (11...
View ArticleJapan Coast Guard says three Chinese ships near Senkaku Islands
Three Chinese government ships entered territorial waters near disputed islands known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, Japan's Coast Guard said Saturday in an e-mailed statement. The...
View ArticleGaza Strip's artists seek to rebuild hope in a society ruined by conflict
Gaza City: The small, childlike drawings depicting scenes of everyday life are sketched on torn pieces of brown paper, ripped from the bags of cement given to families whose houses were destroyed by...
View ArticleWorld's fattest man dies of heart attack
Mexico City: A Mexican man once regarded as the world's most obese has died of heart failure at the age of 38, two months...
View ArticleParis attacks: Belgian college's concerns over attacker reportedly ignored
Brussels: A police commission is interviewing staff at a Brussels college after education authorities failed to act on concerns that a student who later became one of the Paris suicide bombers had been...
View ArticleEuropean capitals warned of possible terror attack before New Year
Vienna: Vienna police said on Saturday that a 'friendly intelligence...
View ArticleIslamic State 'gets tougher' in face of air strikes, audio message
Baghdad: A new message purporting to come from the leader of Islamic State said air strikes by Russia and a US-led coalition had failed to weaken the group. "Be confident that God will grant victory to...
View ArticleJapan and South Korea to settle WWII sex slave row
Tokyo: Japan and South Korea appear ready to settle a bitter dispute over Japanese wartime sex slaves that has strained relations between the two countries for more than half a century. Japan is...
View ArticleWarnings about Paris attacker not passed on
London: He was the youngest of the participants in the Paris terrorist attacks, a baby-faced 20-year-old whose attention had drifted from soccer, cigarettes and girls to the venomous messages of...
View ArticleSevere flood warnings in parts of Britain
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in England's north after heavy rain brought flooding to towns and villages in Yorkshire and Lancashire. The number of severe flood warnings...
View ArticleChina passes first law against domestic violence, but gay couples are excluded
Beijing: China's largely rubber stamp parliament on Sunday passed the country's first law against domestic violence, which covers unmarried people who cohabit but does not protect gay couples, a senior...
View ArticleIraqi army declares key victory over Islamic State in Ramadi
Baghdad: Iraq's army said on Sunday it had defeated Islamic State fighters in a provincial capital west of Baghdad, the first major victory for the US-trained force since it collapsed in the face of an...
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