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  Athens: Greece geared up yesterday for a snap election next month, with an opinion poll showing leftist party Syriza ahead despite a wave...

General view after the passage of Tropical Storm Erika in the Eastern Caribbean in Roseau, Dominica, yesterday. MIAMI: Tropical Storm Erika threatened Haiti...

Former president George W Bush talks with Ashantae Martin (left) and Ronjae Pleasant at  Warren Easton Charter High School one day before the...

Migrants rescued by Libyan coastguard after their boat sank on August 28, 2015 (AFP)   ZUWARA: Pakistani teenager Shefaz Hamza spent nine hours at...

    A boat carrying migrants when it sank is pulled to shore in Zuwara, Libya (AP)   ROME: Italian authorities said Friday they had arrested...

    WASHINGTON: A tech-savvy US teenager from Virginia was sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison on Friday for conspiring to provide...

    MAPUTO: A veteran Mozambican crime journalist was killed in a drive-by shooting in downtown Maputo on Friday in an attack that echoed the...

Forensic experts investigate a lorry in which refugees were found dead on autobahn A4 between Parndorf and Neusiedl, Austria, yesterday. Vienna: Austrian police...

US President Barack Obama (right) and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu (left) meet residents during a tour of the Treme neighbourhood in New...

  Was   Was Alison Parker and Adam Ward, two WDBJ7-TV employees, who were killed in an attack at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia, on...

Iranians stand in front of a cinema featuring "Muhammad" in Tehran on August 27, 2015 -- the first day of screening TEHRAN:  Iran's...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE: The White House said on Thursday that the U.S. State Department continues to review TransCanada Corp's proposed Keystone XL...

    Bosnian Muslims hail Naser Oric, (C) former commander of the Bosnian Muslim-dominated army in Srebrenica, at the Sarajevo Airport in Sarajevo, Bosnia and...

  ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN:    ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN:  Marinika Babanazarova had been director of the Karakalpakstan State Art Museum for more than 30 years. A world-renowned collection...

PARIS: From round disks to oval clusters; many galaxies in the Universe have undergone a dramatic transformation over the past eight billion years...

SAN FRANCISCO: - Apple Inc on Thursday invited journalists to a Sept 9 event, where it is expected to unveil new iPhones and...

OTTAWA:  Fighting to liberalize booze sales, Canadian drinkers and distillers argued in separate legal challenges this week against "unconstitutional" restrictions on the sale...

  VIENNA: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that everyone had been "shaken" by news that up to 50 migrants had been found...