LONDON: Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara batted in contrasting styles as India built a slender lead in the third Test against England at Lord´s on Saturday.India were 84 for one in their second innings — 60 runs ahead — at … read more
CAIRO: Gunmen firing rocket-propelled grenades attacked an Egyptian border guards checkpoint Saturday, killing 15 soldiers, officials and state media said, in one of the biggest assaults since president Mohamed Morsi´s ouster. Militants have stepped up attacks on the security forces … read more
GAZA CITY: Israeli air strikes and shelling killed more than 25 people across Gaza on Saturday, among them children, raising the toll in 12 days of violence to 337, medics said. The latest deaths included a 20-year-old man in southern … read more
BEIRUT: Jihadists have killed 270 Syrian regime fighters, civilian security guards and employees after seizing a gas field in Homs province, a monitoring group said Friday. Updating an earlier toll, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said: “The Observatory is … read more
BERLIN: At least nine people were killed and 43 hurt on Saturday, police said, as a coach carrying Polish holidaymakers collided with another Polish minibus near the eastern German city of Dresden. The crash happened in the early hours of … read more