A 34-year-old Uzbek man suspected of mowing down 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Eve confessed yesterday to the massacre, Turkish authorities said, reports AFP. In a dramatic assault in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Turkish police raided an Istanbul apartment and detained…

Gunmen killed eight police late Monday in an attack on a checkpoint in el-Wadi el-Gedid province in southwest Egypt, the interior ministry said reports AFP. Two of the attackers were killed when security forces fought back, and three other security personnel were injured, the ministry said in a statement.…

The massive underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was called off yesterday, leaving unsolved one of the most enduring mysteries…

Saudi authorities blamed a small-town restaurant for a food poisoning outbreak that struck at least 150 people and sparked a declaration of a health emergency, media said on yesterday reports AFP. The incident occurred in Turabah, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of Taif in the kingdom’s southwest.…

A mother who murdered her own daughter and set her alight for marrying the man of her choice has been sentenced to death, officials said Tuesday, in a case that had revolted many in Pakistan reports AFP. Zeenat Bibi, aged 16, was doused with kerosene and set alight in June last year in Pakistan’s…

Iran will build a mobile phone network and petrol terminal in Syria under deals signed in Tehran yesterday during a visit by Prime Minister Imad Khamis, Iranian media reported, reports AFP. The five deals include a “licence for a mobile phone operator, the transfer of 5,000 hectares for the creation…