COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police came under fire yesterday for their failure to act after the gang rape and murder of…

BERLIN: A 65-year-old German woman, who already has 13 children, has given birth to quadruplets after undergoing an artificial insemination…

DUBLIN: Irish voters backed same-sex marriage by a landslide in a referendum marking a dramatic social shift in the traditionally…

DUBAI: The jihadist Islamic State group said in an online statement Friday that it carried out a deadly suicide bomb…

THE HAGUE: The Dutch cabinet on Friday approved a partial ban on wearing the face-covering Islamic veil, including in schools,…

Military chief claims migrants pretending to be Rohingyas to get UN aid YANGON: Myanmar’s navy found two boats, one carrying…

LONDON: Just three years after the extraordinary discovery of King Richard III under a car park, researchers think another medieval…

MIAMI: A new kind of brain implant senses a patient’s intent to move a robotic arm, offering new promise to…