ALLAHABAD: An affluent Indian couple on Thursday won their appeal against a life jail term for the murder of their daughter and a servant in the latest…

RAWALPINDI: A North American family that had been held hostage by the Afghan Taliban has been freed following an operation in Pakistan, the Pakistani…

SANTA ROSA: More than 200 fire engines and firefighting crews from around the country were being rushed to California on Wednesday to help battle infernos…

GAZA CITY: Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah reached an agreement Thursday on ending a decade-long split following talks mediated by Egypt in Cairo, with president Mahmud Abbas calling it a "final" accord, reports AFP. Details of the agreement have not yet been released and a press…

MADRID: Spain marked its national day Thursday with a show of unity in the face of Catalan independence efforts, a day after the central government gave the region's separatist leader a deadline to abandon his secession bid, reports AFP. The country is suffering its worst political crisis in a generation…

ARBIL: Tensions escalated between Iraq's Kurds and Baghdad on Thursday as warnings of a "major attack" by government forces prompted Kurdish peshmerga fighters to temporarily block roads from other parts of the country, reports AFP. The move came just over two weeks after Kurdish voters…