WASHINGTON: CNN on Wednesday released a video showing Donald Trump attending a dinner with key figures at the center of a growing controversy over alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election, reports AFP. The video was shot on June 15, 2013 on the eve of the Miss USA pageant, according…

WASHINGTON: A team of Afghan girls who had been denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition are now allowed to come, organizers said Wednesday,…

DOHA: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday wrapped up a four-day mission to the Gulf with little sign of progress in resolving the diplomatic crisis pitting Saudi Arabia and its allies against Qatar, reports AFP. Tillerson met Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani for the second…

YAOUNDe: Two bombers blew themselves up in northeastern Cameroon killing 14 people and injuring 30 people in an attack likely staged by Boko Haram jihadists, security sources said Thursday, reports AFP. The bombings, which took place on Wednesday evening in Waza near the Nigerian border, targeted a…

London: Police in Pakistan have arrested a man accused of tying a young boy to a donkey which then dragged him to death, reports BBC. The incident happened in Lora village, 80km (50 miles) south of Abbottabad. Reports said the landowner Mohammad Miskin, who denies the charges, became angry after animals…

BRASiLIA: Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for graft in a stark fall from grace for…

London: An Australian cattle worker whose thumb was severed by a bull has had his toe surgically transplanted in its position, reports BBC. Zac Mitchell, 20, was injured in April while working on a remote farming property in Western Australia. "A bull kicked my hand into the fence," Mitchell…