NEW DELHI: Are night lights on earth captured by satellites from outer space a good way to measure inequality? Economists Praveen Chakravarty and Vivek…

BEIRUT: At least 26 Syrian regime forces and nine Russian fighters were killed in an Islamic State group attack earlier this week in Syria's eastern desert, a monitor said yesterday, reports AFP. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the jihadists had targeted a group of Syrian and allied…

YAOUNDÉ: Twenty-two people have been killed in clashes with the army in Cameroon, an opposition MP said Saturday, in the latest violence to hit the restive northwest, where separatists from the English-speaking minority are fighting for greater autonomy, reports AFP. The identity of those killed…

BERLIN: Thousands of demonstrators for and against the far-right faced off in mass rival rallies in Berlin yesterday, where calls of "We are the people" were met with chants of "Go away, Nazis" and techno music, reports AFP. Police officers were deployed to keep groups apart and…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will hold a general election on 25 July in what could be only the second democratic transfer of power in the nuclear-armed country’s history, reports The Guardian. The election is expected to pit the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party against former cricket star…

SANAA: A woman was among four people killed in an air strike that hit a petrol station in Yemen's rebel-held capital late Saturday, medical sources…