Iraqi paramilitary forces launched an operation yesterday to cut the Islamic State group’s supply lines between its Mosul bastion and neighbouring Syria, opening a new front in the nearly two-week-old offensive.
Four people were killed at a theme park on Australia's popular Gold Coast Tuesday, police said, with witnesses describing how "everyone was screaming" after a raft apparently flipped on a malfunctioning water ride.
Miss Nepal Barsha Lekhi poses while visiting the Owakudani volcanic zone in Hakone, Kanagawa prefecture yesterday.
The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) has announced a work-related fatality on Al Wakrah Stadium on Saturday morning.
Swiss customs authorities have slapped a billionaire with a $4 million fine for failing to properly declare some 200 artworks imported into Switzerland, according to media reports confirmed by officials Sunday.
Heavy clashes between regime and rebel forces erupted in several areas of Syria’s divided city of Aleppo late yesterday after a unilateral ceasefire announced by government ally Russia expired.
Infrastructure financing needs in rapidly developing economies can be met to some extent in the medium term, if the Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB) is able to lend the targeted $10bn within the next five years.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) kept its expectations for global growth in 2016 unchanged at 3.1% in its recently-published World Economic Outlook, QNB said in its latest commentary.
Most Asian markets swung lower yesterday following healthy gains at the end of last week, as investors bet that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates before the end of the year.
At least 25 inmates were killed, including six who were decapitated and burned, in clashes between rival criminal factions at a prison in northeastern Brazil, local media reported.
The Ministry of Economy and Commerce in collaboration with Samsung Electronics Company has announced a “halt in the sales” of the Galaxy Note 7 and suspension of the campaign for replacements of Galaxy Note 7 devices.
Peter Sagan became the first rider since 2007 to retain his world championship road race title when he perfectly timed his sprint in Doha on Sunday.
