JERUSALEM: Rocket fire from Syria slammed into the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights on Sunday (Aug 24) but there…

CHILE: A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake jolted central Chile on Saturday, US geologists said, though there were no immediate reports of…

JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities called off their search for two Spanish men on Saturday (Aug 23), finding no sign of them…

REYKJAVIK: Iceland raised its alert over the nation’s largest volcanic system to red on Saturday (Aug 23), banning all air…

Washington brands beheading of an American journalist a ‘terrorist attack against United States’

WASHINGTON: People with autism have too many synapses — the connectors by which brain cells send and receive signals —…

BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta has pledged leniency in the cases of babies born to surrogate mothers, as it looks to toughen…

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives at the interior ministry’s intelligence headquarters in central Baghdad…