Bomb blasts killed scores of people in Jableh and Tartous on Syria’s Mediterranean coast on Monday and wounded many others in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases, monitors and state media said. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks in the cities that have up to now escaped...
German drugs and crop chemicals group Bayer has offered to buy U.S. seeds company Monsanto for $62 billion in cash, defying criticism from some of its own shareholders in a bid to grab the top spot in a fast-consolidating farm supplies industry. The unsolicited proposal, which includes debt, would be the largest foreign...
About 30 climbers have suffered frostbite or become ill on Mount Everest after two others died, apparently from altitude sickness. Two Indian climbers have also been reported missing in the mountain's so-called "death zone" near the summit. However the mountain's most successful female climber reached...
PARIS — The winding cobblestone streets of Paris' swanky Le Marais district usually bustle with tourists this time of year, but its trendy bars, bistros and boutiques are uncommonly quiet. "Normally whether it's cold or warm, whether it's sunny or rainy, there are lots of people here," said Cyrille...
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — President Obama said Monday that the United States' relationship with Vietnam is moving to a "new moment," including an end to the half-century American arms embargo on its former war rival and a host of new business ties between the two nations. "Just a generation ago, we...
A BLANKET ban on legal highs could force dealers onto the "dark web", a top police officer warned night. The mind-altering substances – including 'hippy crack' and 'spice' – are being outlawed this week after being linked to several deaths. But Commander Simon Bray said those determined to...
AUSTRIA looked set last night to become the first country in Europe to vote in a far-Right president. Norbert Hofer was close to clinching victory but with a wafer-thin margin. Freedom Party candidate Hofer, an aviation engineer, was in the lead with 51.9 per cent ahead of Alexander van der Bellen, a former Greens leader turned...
British media and bloggers suspect that Kate Middleton serious health problems. We are talking about the eating disorder. The Duchess of Cambridge noticeably lost weight and looks, according to the press, exhausted. The reason for the next wave of rumors began photos of Middleton taken during the visit of members of the Royal...
Khaleesi has been crowned Esquire's 'Sexiest Woman Alive!' The Mother of Dragons is having a moment. Emilia Clarke has been crowned Esquire magazine's 2015 Sexiest Woman Alive – just after nabbing British GQ's Woman of the Year honor. In the interview that accompanies Clarke's sultry,...
American pop diva Rihanna shocked fans, laying out in the "Instagram" photos of naked buttocks, decorated...
INFAMOUS terror group al-Qaeda is planning major attacks against the West from its newly recaptured base in Afghanistan, experts warn. The violent extremists had fled the country, taking up residence in rural Pakistan – but they have now reclaimed their stronghold after allied troops left the country in 2014. Security...
At least 17 girls have been killed by a fire which swept through their school dormitory in northern Thailand. The fire broke out on Sunday evening when many of the girls, aged between five and 13, were asleep, said police. One official told AFP that 38 students had been in the dorm at Pithakkiart Witthaya school in Chiang Rai,...