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People choose ballots for the regional election at a polling station in Barcelona yesterday. Barcelona: Catalans voted yesterday in an election seen as...

Members of the fire dragon dance team help support the head of the 'dragon' during the Pok Fu Lam Fire Dragon Dance in...

A several hundred metres long orange cloth is carried for a procession as an offering and to be draped around a dagoba on...

Jalalabad: Self-proclaimed fighters from the Islamic State group have for the first time launched coordinated attacks on police checkpoints in an eastern Afghan...

    An Israeli soldier standing guard along the ceasefire line with the Syrian region, on August 21, 2015  (AFP) JERUSALEM:  A rocket fired from...

    People celebrate as they are released from Ebola quarantine by Sierra, village of Massessehbeh,  Aug. 14, 2015. (AP)  FREETOWN: Sierra Leone began a...

    LOUVRE ABU DHABI ABU DHABI:  The last of nearly 4,500 metal stars was placed Sunday on the outer layer of the dome on ...

    Gilbert Diendere, the leader of last week's failed coup   Ouagadougou:  Burkina Faso authorities on Saturday froze the assets of General Gilbert Diendere, the...

      MAKKAH:  Convoys of pilgrims started leaving Makkah after performing Hajj obligation, appealing to Allah Almighty to accept their Hajj and to preserve the...

By Jack Stubbs and Denis Dyomkin MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday branded U.S. support for rebel forces in Syria as illegal...

By Axel Bugge LISBON: Winning the vote of the cooks and waiters dishing out succulent grilled fish and spicy chicken at Portugal's restaurants...

By Veturi Srivatsa All those who followed Sourav Ganguly closely are not surprised at the recent turn of events in his own life...

  By Jaideep Sarin CHANDIGARH: The release of a film on a sect chief and the protests linked to it, an apology by a...

SRINAGAR: The internet blackout in Jammu and Kashmir which was to end on Saturday midnight continued across the state on Sunday with subscribers...

SAN JOSE:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi couldn't have secured a better endorsement for his "Digital India" initiative, as chief executives of some of...

ISTANBUL: Seventeen migrants drowned when their boat sank on Sunday off the Turkish coast while headed for the Greek island of Kos, the...

DUBAI: A Saudi brigadier general has died in hospital of wounds incurred on the border with Yemen, the armed forces said. Ibrahim Omar...

Representational image BANGUI, Central African Republic: More than 20 people have been killed and around 100 injured in clashes in the capital of...