SYDNEY: Elon Musk is leading demands for a global ban on killer robots, warning technological advances could revolutionise warfare and create new "weapons of terror" that target innocent people, reports AFP. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX joined more than 100 robotics and artificial intelligence…

London: Big Ben has fallen silent for major repair work expected to last until 2021, reports BBC. The midday bongs were the last regular chimes from the…

MARSEILLE: One person was killed and another seriously injured in the southern French city of Marseille on Monday after a van ploughed into people at two different bus stops, police sources, adding that the suspected driver had been arrested, reports AFP. Marseille's prosecutor Xavier Tarabeux said…

CHARLESTON: On Monday, when a total solar eclipse sweeps across the United States for the first time in 99 years, people gathering in Charleston, South Carolina, will be the last on the continent to experience it, reports AFP. They are ready. Historic Charleston, with its cobblestone streets and elegant…

LONDON: The popularity of Britain's Prince Charles has taken a dive, according to a survey published on Monday, as the 20th anniversary of Princess…

BEIRUT: Six people were reported dead on Sunday when a rocket hit near an international trade fair in Syria's capital Damascus being held for the first time in five years, reports AFP. The Damascus International Fair was once the leading event on Syria's economic calendar but had not been held…

BUNIA: The death toll from a landslide that swept over a fishing village on the banks of a lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 140, the government said Monday, reports AFP. "We estimate that there at least a hundred bodies buried underneath the rumble of large rocks that fell on…

HELSINKI: Court documents on Monday identified the suspect in last week's stabbing spree in a Finnish city, which is being probed as the country's first-ever terror attack, as 18-year-old Abderrahman Mechkah, reports AFP. Police have previously described the suspect as an asylum seeker from…