BEIJING: As Chinese leader Xi Jinping prepares to embark on a second five-year term this week, the impulsive leaders of North Korea and the United States…

MOGADISHU: Desperate Somalis searched for news of missing loved-ones on Monday, after a massive truck bomb in Mogadishu killed at least 276 people and left 300 injured in the deadliest ever attack to hit the conflict-torn nation, reports AFP. Residents of the Somali capital, while wearily accustomed…

BARCELONA: Madrid on Monday gave Catalonia's separatist leader three more days to "return to legality" after he refused to say whether he would follow through on a threat to declare independence from Spain, reports AFP. Responding to an initial deadline set by the central government, Carles…

MARAWI: The head of the Islamic State group in Southeast Asia, who figures on the US "most wanted terrorists" list, was killed on Monday in the battle to reclaim a militant-held Philippines city, officials said, reports AFP. Isnilon Hapilon's reported death came during a final push to…

BANGALORE: At least six people were killed Monday when an apartment block collapsed in southern India following a gas tank explosion, police said, reports AFP. The two-storey building in a crowded neighbourhood in Bangalore city was reduced to rubble after the cooking gas tank triggered a devastating…

LISBON: At least 27 people have died in fires which have ravaged forests in northern and central Portugal over the past 24 hours, rescuers said Monday,…

DUBLIN: Ireland was being hit by an "unprecedented storm" on Monday that left 100,000 homes and businesses without power and every school in the country shut as authorities warned that lives could be in danger, reports AFP. Ophelia, the largest hurricane ever recorded so far east in the Atlantic…