AFP, KABUL: Emotions ran high Saturday in a Kabul neighbourhood where a Taliban suicide bomber struck a French restaurant popular with expats, killing two people including a 12-year-old boy hit by flying shrapnel. Friday’s powerful bombing of Le Jardin, the second Taliban attack in Kabul in a…

AFP, KANO: One year after a massive attack ranked among the worst in Boko Haram's six-year insurgency, the residents of Baga in northeast Nigeria say their home is a ghost town. The jihadists razed the fishing hub on the shores of Lake Chad in a four-day assault beginning January 3 last year, forcing…

AFP, WELLINGTON: Two Australian climbers have fallen to their deaths in New Zealand's southern alps, police said Saturday. Stuart Jason Hollaway, 42, and his partner Dale Amanda Thistlethwaite, 35, from Melbourne, had been travelling and climbing in New Zealand for the past month. Hollaway was a…

AFP, LONDON: Thousands of passengers using London's train, buses and Underground system travelled for free on Saturday after a technical glitch brought down its Oyster card network. Staff opened barriers at rail and tube stations and bus drivers waved on passengers after the card 'reader'…

AFP, PARIS: A French academic and an MP published online Friday the famous diary of Anne Frank, despite a dispute with rights holders as to whether the…

PTI, Washington:  Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton raised a record $112 million in 2015 for her election campaign and enters the New Year with a $ 38 million in cash. New York—based real estate tycoon Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate, is funding his own campaign,…

AFP, NAIROBI: Republican White House frontrunner Donald Trump's call for a 'shutdown' on Muslims entering the US have been used by Somalia's Shebab in a jihadist recruitment video, a US group that monitors extremist propaganda said Saturday. The Al Qaeda-affiliated Shebab use an excerpt…