UNITED NATIONS: United Nations investigators on Thursday blamed a sarin gas massacre on Bashar al-Assad’s regime, as the United States renewed its warning that he has no role in Syria’s future, reports AFP. The expert panel’s report and tough remarks by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson…

HANOI: Natural disasters, mostly flash floods and landslides, have killed or left 245 people missing in Vietnam so far this year, its Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said yesterday, Xinhua reports. In the 10-month period, the natural disasters also destroyed over 4,600 houses, and damaged…

NEW DELHI: Doctors in India have successfully separated conjoined twin boys who were attached at the skull in a marathon surgical procedure that lasted…

TEUSTEPE: Torrential rains in Nicaragua have left at least five people dead as rivers burst their banks, flooding homes and damaging roads and bridges, the government said Thursday, reports AFP. Two other people are missing in the violent weather of recent days, government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo…

NAIROBI: As polling officials tallied votes, Kenyans counted the cost yesterday of a deeply-divisive election marred by an opposition boycott and protests…

WASHINGTON: A small feathered dinosaur whose fossil was discovered in China used its different colors for protection, a study published Thursday said, helping to dispel stereotypes about the long-extinct creatures, reports AFP. “Far from all being the lumbering prehistoric grey beasts of past…

Two US yachtswomen and their two dogs have been rescued by the US Navy after spending nearly five months adrift in the Pacific Ocean, officials say, reports BBC. Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiaba had set off in a small sailing boat from Hawaii on a trip to Tahiti when their engine, damaged by the bad…