WASHINGTON: A SpaceX rocket exploded in mid-air during a test flight on Friday as the company seeks to develop a spacecraft that can...
WASHINGTON: A SpaceX rocket exploded in mid-air during a test flight on Friday as the company seeks to develop a spacecraft that can...
Two headless marble sphinxes guarding the entrance of a massive ancient tomb in the town of Amphipolis in northeast Greece. AMPHIPOLIS, Greece: To...
A Chinese vendor waits for customers at a game booth, which has Tweety Bird as a prize, near a beach in the coastal...
Ashraf Mashharawi, a film director from Gaza, speaks during an interview yesterday. SARAJEVO: Two Gaza directors won an award at Sarajevo’s film festival,...
New York: The US Copyright Office has confirmed that a monkey — or any other animal — that takes a selfie does not...
A giant inflatable rubber duck installation by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman floats through the Port of Los Angeles as part of the Tall...
Former US president George W Bush takes the “Ice Bucket Challenge” which aims to raise money and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)...
TOKYO: Sakari Momoi, a 111-year-old Japanese citizen, was officially recognised in Tokyo as the oldest man in the world by the Guinness World...
PARIS: Eight hundred metres (2,600 feet) under the Antarctic ice, in the pitch dark, a vibrant community of rock-munching microbes are thriving in...
LONDON: The last time she took to the stage, the prototype of the mobile phone was undergoing its first trials. And as she...
Eleven-year-old Renzo somersaults at a traffic junction in the San Borja district in Lima. Renzo and his nine-year-old brother Gianpierre perform on streets...
A file picture of Stan Lee posing at the premiere of “Iron Man 3” at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood, California. LOS ANGELES:...
A regional train of German railway operator Deutsche Bahn makes its way over a viaduct leading over the Zwickauer Mulde valley in Goehren,...
New York: If you are blessed with a daughter, take heart because in your golden years, they are the ones — and not...
PARIS: Ever felt like your neighbour’s antics could drive you to an early grave? Well, there may be reason for concern, said researchers...
BEIJING: A China Eastern Airlines Corp passenger plane that had started its night-time descent into a Wuhan airport was forced to abort its...
Venus (left) and Jupiter (right) rise together in a rare conjunction over the Hell Gate (rear) and Robert F Kennedy (front) bridges early...
A meteor crosses the Milky Way on the Ari Atoll, Maldives, on the night of August 17. Ari Atoll (also called Alif or...
