NEW YORK: An airliner skidded off a runway at New York´s La Guardia airport Thursday as a major winter storm battered the United States from Texas to the US east coast. Heavy snow was falling as Delta flight 1086 from … read more
TOKYO: The world´s oldest person Misao Okawa, a mother of three, grandmother of four and great-grandmother of six, turned 117 on Thursday in western Japan. Okawa, one of only a handful of people born in the 19th century and still … read more
LONDON: A chemistry teacher was jailed for six years in Britain on Thursday for trying to join Islamic State jihadists fighting in Syria, against the wishes of his family who desperately tried to stop him. Jamshed Javeed, 30, one of … read more
Dozens were killed Wednesday when Syrian rebels set off a powerful tunnel explosion targeting an intelligence headquarters in Aleppo and clashed with regime forces, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast hit a building housing … read more
RIYADH: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday arrived in Saudi Arabia on three-day official tour and met Saudi King Shah Salman bin Abdul Aziz. The prime minister received felicitous welcome upon arrival on the first official visit upon invitation of … read more