A Saudi prince has been executed for shooting a man dead during a mass brawl three years ago outside Riyadh, reports BBC. Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir was put to death in the capital. No details were given as to how he was executed - most condemned people are beheaded. The prince is the 134th person…

PTI, Beijing:  India has “outmanoeuvred” Pakistan by effectively branding its neighbour as a “regional pariah” at the BRICS summit, an article in the State-run Global Times said on Wednesday. “Given the uneasy background of Indo-Pak tension, which escalated last month…

AFP, THE HAGUE: Police forces from 52 countries arrested over 300 people and swooped on red-light districts to bust several trafficking gangs in a week-long, round-the-clock operation, Europol said Wednesday. The action led by the European police agency focused “on disrupting the most dangerous…

AFP, BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut soared into orbit in a Soyuz spacecraft Wednesday at the start of a two-day journey…

AFP, MANILA: A Philippine police van on Wednesday rammed and ran over baton-wielding protesters outside the US embassy in Manila. Police used tear gas and truncheons to try to disperse hundreds of people who had gathered in support of President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent comments that he wanted…

AFP, PARIS: Scientists said Wednesday they had linked mutations in a specific gene with an increased risk of recurrent miscarriages, offering hopes of better diagnosis and treatment for affected women. The gene, dubbed FOXD1, was first pinpointed in lab mice, a team of international researchers wrote…