Burning roadblocks at 2nd day of Nigeria strike
LAGOS: Angry youths erected a burning roadblock outside luxury enclaves in Nigeria's…
Bahrain orders murder retrial, observer turned back
DUBAI: A Bahraini appeal court has ordered the retrial of two men…
South Sudan facing multiple crises, says UN refugee chief
JUBA: South Sudan faces challenges of "huge dimensions" as the world's newest…
Israel OKs harsh penalties for illegal migrants
JERUSALEM: Israel's parliament on Tuesday approved harsh new penalties on illegal migrants…
Tunisian dies of self-immolation, year after Ben Ali ouster
TUNIS: A Tunisian man who set himself on fire to protest unemployment…
Picasso stolen from Athens’ National Gallery
A Pablo Picasso painting gifted to Greece by the Spanish-born master was…
1793 penny fetches $1.38 mln at US auction
A once-cent copper coin from the earliest days of the US Mint…
Kanye takes beautiful dark twisted fantasy to Twitter
American hip hop mogul Kanye West has launched an epic rant on…
Virtuoso pianist Alexis Weissenberg dies aged 82
Bulgarian-born French concert pianist Alexis Weissenberg, considered one of the great classical…
Egypt mulls raising tariffs on ‘luxury’ imports
CAIRO: As Egypt works to reduce the budget deficit by cutting back…