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Beirut: Shakira and Elton John played one-off concerts in Lebanon in recent months but the summer music festivals that helped make the country a cultural...

Lisbon: Temperatures in Portugal, at the crest of a European heatwave, began to ease from near record levels on Sunday, but a forest fire raged for a third...

Islamabad: A phone app and a database of more than 50 million voters were key weapons in the successful campaign of cricket legend Imran Khan in last...

Flims(Switzerland): Up to 20 people are feared dead after a small plane crashed in the Swiss Alps. Authorities have provided few details about those on...

Dhaka: Bangladesh police on Sunday launched a crackdown on dangerous driving as the government tries to quell student unrest sparked by the death of two...

Muscat: The world’s first Hijab-wearing Barbie doll, modelled after American Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad was released last week. Ibtihaj, tweeted a...

California: A seventh person died in a northern California wildfire Saturday, officials said, as a couple of other fast-growing wildfires in the state...

Muscat: Indian smartphone users on Friday were taken aback by the fact that a Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) toll free number had been...

Moscow: Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it had made U.S. actor Steven Seagal its special representative for Russian-U.S. humanitarian ties, a...

Caracas: At least one explosion rocked a military event where Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was giving a speech on Saturday and the government said it...