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Witnessing the Northern Lights (also known as the Aurora Borealis) is on many people's bucket lists, but it's also a severely expensive one. And after shelling out all that money to get the northernmost parts of Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland or Canada, there's no actual guarantee the visibility will be...

JERUSALEM: Israeli police on Tuesday recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, opening the way for what could be the biggest challenge yet to the right-wing leader’s political survival. Against the backdrop of Israeli flags in a televised speech at his residence, a sombre Netanyahu called the allegations baseless...

MOSCOW, Feb 11 (Reuters) - A Russian passenger plane crashed near Moscow soon after take-off on Sunday, killing all 71 people on board, and investigators said they were looking at all possible causes. Temperatures were around minus 5 degrees Celsius with periodic snowfall when the short-haul AN-148 operated by Saratov...

Pat Torpey, one of the founders of rock band Mr. Big, died on Wednesday. That's what the band said on Twitter on Thursday night. "With a broken heart we tell you that our brother, friend, drummer and band member of the first hour, Pat, died of the consequences of Parkinson's disease", writes the band....

A special judge’s court has found BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia guilty of corruption and sentenced the former prime minister to five years in prison in a charge that she and her supporters describe as a politically motivated attempt to shut her out of election. Amid heightened security across Bangladesh and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department announced one of its largest-ever takedowns of a global cyber crime ring on Wednesday, saying it had indicted 36 people accused of trafficking in stolen identities and causing more than $530 million in losses to consumers. The cyber crime network, operating as an...

A new investigation by the Associated Press has revealed that a whopping 40 percent of 87 American defense contractors who were recently targeted by Russian hackers clicked on fake links sent to them via email, possibly exposing classified information in the process. It’s no secret that both American and Russian intelligence agencies...

MUSCAT (AFP) - Qatar signed a memorandum of understanding with Oman on the development of bilateral investment and trade on Sunday (Jan 28), nearly eight months into a crisis between the emirate and its Arab neighbours. The Omani news agency ONA said the agreement signed in Muscat covers a wide...

A 15-year-old female student at a Texas high school was wounded and her 16-year-old male classmate was arrested after a shooting on Monday morning. The Ellis County sheriff's office said on Twitter that the 'shooter is in custody' after the shooting in Italy, some 45 miles south of Dallas, which...

A giant mushroom-shaped cloud rises into the air from Mayon volcano, where Philippine volcanologists have raised the alert level one notch higher than the initial warning scientists issued last week. A giant mushroom-shaped cloud shot up from the Philippines' most active volcano on Monday, turning day into night as it...

NEW DELHI — India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu in Hebrew and stressed the close friendship between the two leaders and their countries as officials from both sides signed several agreements Monday on defence, trade, energy and agricultural ties. The Israeli prime minister arrived in India on Sunday...

WASHINGTON:  Amid increased bonhomie between Russia and Pakistan, the White House believes that Moscow does not have a great influence on Islamabad, a senior Trump Administration official has said. "I don't particularly believe that there is a great deal of influence that Russia is asserting (over Pakistan) even though I do...