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Former Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari addresses a rally outside the Karachi airport on his return to Pakistan after an 18-month self-imposed exile.

Former Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari ends 18-month exile

Former Pak President says his party will launch a democratic struggle in Parliament.

24 Dec 2016 6:42 AM IST

The prosecutor said the flight could have caused a collision with any of two-dozen aircraft landing or departing from Calgarys airport.

Balloonatic' lands with $3,700 fine

The stunt was reminiscent of a flight in 1982 in California that has been imitated by others around the world

24 Dec 2016 6:27 AM IST

A file photo shows a mother and daughter climbing a pedestrian overpass on a heavily polluted day in Shijiazhuang, in Hebei province, China. (Photo: AFP)

Name and shame' drive fails, Chinese polluters are defiant

An investigation by the MEP this week showed the province remains one of the country's worst black spots for...

24 Dec 2016 2:17 AM IST

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.

Flyer ejected after spat with future First Daughter

Aggressive' passenger refuses to sit next to Ivanka Trump and her husband.

24 Dec 2016 2:10 AM IST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a press meet in Berlin on Friday. (Photo: AFP)

Threat thwarted but terror danger endures: Merkel

Ms Merkel said she had ordered justice and interior ministers at the federal and state level to analyse every aspect of...

24 Dec 2016 1:57 AM IST

Hijackers diverted the Libyan commercial plane to Malta on Friday and threatened to blow it up with hand grenades, Maltese authorities and state media said. (Photo: AP)

Plane hijacking in Malta ends peacefully; 2 men surrender

Libyan Foreign Minister said the two hijackers were supporters of Moamer Kadhafi and had requested political asylum in...

23 Dec 2016 8:55 PM IST

Italian police shot him dead after he pulled a gun on them during a routine check in the early hours of Friday.

Berlin attacker pledged allegiance to IS in video

Amri called for Islamic State supporters to take revenge of crusaders bombing Muslims.

23 Dec 2016 8:08 PM IST

The Afriqiyah flight from Sabha to Tripoli has been diverted and has landed in Malta. (Photo: AP)

65 passengers released from hijacked Libyan plane: Malta PM

The plane had been on a domestic Libyan route operated by Afriqiyah Airways but was re-routed to Malta.

23 Dec 2016 5:36 PM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

No one except us' believed Trump would win: Vladimir Putin

Russia and Putin has been accused by Washington of meddling in the US elections but the Kremlin leader broadly dismissed...

23 Dec 2016 5:04 PM IST

Amri was caught on camera by police on a regular stake-out at a mosque in Berlins Moabit district early on Tuesday a few hours after the attack. (Photo: AFP)

Berlin truck attack suspect shot dead in Milan: reports

Various sources confirmed that the dead man was Anis Amri, the suspect in the Berlin truck attack on Monday that killed...

23 Dec 2016 3:26 PM IST

A Iraqi man wounded in a car bomb attack in the liberated district of Gogjali is seen at his arrival to a Hospital in Irbil, Iraq. (Photo: AP)

Iraqi air force drops empathy letters on Mosul

According to the coalition, the letters are based on 2,160 hand-written notes penned in the days since the Mosul...

23 Dec 2016 12:13 PM IST

Spicer, 45, served as RNC spokesman during Trumps presidential campaign, alongside party chairman Reince Priebus, who stood by Trump amid furious opposition from establishment Republicans and was rewarded with the chief of staff position. (Photo: AP)

Trump taps RNC's Sean Spicer for WH spokesman

To round out his communications team, the president-elect appointed loyalists from his upstart presidential campaign.

23 Dec 2016 12:08 PM IST