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The US central bank's favoured measure of inflation edged higher last month on the back of rising fuel prices, according to government data published on Friday, but a metric stripping out volatile...

The world's top court has ordered Israel to ensure urgent humanitarian assistance reaches people in the Gaza Strip, where fighting continued Friday including around hospitals despite a binding UN...

Japan announced plans on Wednesday to develop a next-generation passenger jet over the next decade after the last struggling attempt, led by a private company, was scrapped a year ago.The new...

Israeli troops battled Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, with no sign of a let-up in the war despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an "immediate ceasefire".The resolution was adopted...

United Nations - After more than five months of war, the UN Security Council for the first time Monday demanded an immediate ceasefire after the United States, Israel's ally which vetoed previous...

United Nations - The UN Security Council will vote Monday on a new draft resolution on an "immediate" ceasefire in Gaza, after Russia and China vetoed an earlier text proposed by the United States.The...

United Nations: Russia and China on Friday vetoed a US-led draft resolution at the Security Council on a ceasefire in Gaza, joining Arab countries in saying it did not pressure Israel as Moscow...

LONDON: Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales, said on Friday she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy after tests taken following major abdominal surgery in January revealed cancer had been...

LOS ANGELES: Damian Lillard scored 13 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter and came up with two late steals as the Milwaukee Bucks bounced back from a loss to NBA leaders Boston with a 115-108...

PARIS: Israel's hopes of reaching the European Championships for the first time against the background of bloody conflict at home were shattered by a 4-1 defeat to Iceland on Thursday while war-torn...

MIAMI: Former world number four Kei Nishikori's return to the ATP Tour after a lengthy injury absence ended in a first round 6-3, 6-4 loss to Sebastian Ofner.Japan's Nishikori has barely played on the...

Haiti's gangs have made advances in Port-au-Prince, a UN official reported on Thursday, with political parties inching towards forming a transition government and new bloodshed roiling the troubled...

Cooperation across borders on shared water resources can help avert conflicts and build peace, the United Nations said on Friday, urging all countries to join its Water Convention. The UN stressed...

Dozens of Rohingya refugees are feared dead or missing after their boat capsized off Indonesia's westernmost coast this week, the United Nations said on Friday, as local rescuers called off the search...

Social media site Reddit's shares have closed 48 per cent higher on the company's first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. On Wednesday, Reddit revealed that it had priced its shares at...

Cairo - A major fire in Cairo destroyed one of the Arab world's most prestigious and oldest film production houses, founded 80 years ago, an AFP journalist said.Flames overtook the Al-Ahram Studio in...

Paris: Conditions affecting the nervous system — such as strokes, migraines and dementia — have surged past heart disease to become the leading cause of ill health worldwide, a major new analysis...

TEL AVIV: At least 20 people were killed in an attack in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday evening, according to Palestinian reports. The Hamas-controlled health authority said Israeli troops had...

The first Gaza-bound food shipment along a new maritime corridor was visible off the besieged territory's coast, a journalist said, as Palestinians gathered for the first Friday prayers of...

More than 3,000 Czechs have caught whooping cough so far this year, the highest figure since the 1960s, with teenagers the worst hit, health authorities said on Friday.Doctors have registered 810...