self-styled daredevil died Saturday after a rocket in which he launched himself crashed into the ground, a colleague and a witness said."Mad" Mike Hughes died after the homemade rocket crashed on private

Taliban fighters and Afghan security forces clashed in parts of Afghanistan on Saturday, a day after a week-long "reduction in violence" was announced, but the incidents did not spark immediate alarm on

Syrian troops backed by Russian air power have been battling since December to eliminate the last rebel strongholds in the region in a war that has killed an estimated 400,000 Syrians, displaced millions

South Korea has reported 52 new cases of a new coronavirus, raising the total to 156.Authorities in Seoul also on Friday banned rallies in major downtown areas in efforts to fight the viral outbreak.The

Many international sports events in China have been postponed, moved and even cancelled amid the novel coronavirus outbreak that has killed at least 1,523 people on the mainland and infected more than

About 790,000 years ago, a meteor slammed into Earth with such force that the explosion blanketed about 10 percent of the planet with shiny black lumps of rocky debris.Known as tektites, these glassy blobs

Dubai's hospitality industry is most at risk in the Gulf Arab states region from being negatively impacted by travel restrictions associated with the new coronavirus outbreak, ratings agency S&P Global

Thousands of Buddhist monks in Thailand have gathered for prayer ceremonies to honour the 29 people killed in the country's deadliest mass shooting.Public prayer ceremonies were held on Saturday, a week

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has reportedly plunked down an eye-popping amount of money for a new home in Beverly Hills. Bezos purchased the Warner Estate, an expansive property designed in the 1930s for Warner

Australia beat India by 11 runs to win the final of the women's Twenty20 tri-series in Melbourne.Beth Mooney hit an unbeaten 71 from 54 balls before Rachael Haynes made 18 off seven balls to help the hosts

The government is set to pledge £5bn over the next five years to improve bus and cycling services in England.In the House of Commons on Tuesday, the prime minister will say the extra money will provide

advance World Health Organization team of medical experts arrived in China on Monday to help investigate the coronavirus outbreak, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva.Tedros, who visited

Following are some countries' evacuation plans, and how they aim to manage the health risk from those who are returning.- A second evacuation flight is bringing back another 174 Singaporeans and their

Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has always been a controversial political operator in Iraq - the most popular among Shia leaders, the most temperamental, and the most unpredictable. His solid popular base

mother and her six children died when a fire destroyed their home early Saturday in central Mississippi, authorities said.The father was the lone survivor of the 12:30 a.m. blaze in Clinton, a city of

The Diamond Princess, operated by Princess Cruises, was placed on a two-week quarantine on arriving at Yokohama on Monday after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong was diagnosed with the virus.Japanese

The third person in the UK to be diagnosed with coronavirus did not catch it in mainland China, England's chief medical officer has said.The patient, who caught the infection elsewhere in Asia, was diagnosed

Prosecutors are dropping charges that a doctor who appeared on a reality TV show and his girlfriend raped and drugged women in California after finding key video evidence never actually existed, an official

Daniel arap Moi, a former schoolteacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving president and presided over years of repression and economic turmoil fueled by runaway corruption, has died. He was 95.Moi’s death

The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a man who fatally shot a U.S. Army soldier and wounded another outside a recruiting station in Little Rock.The ruling dated Thursday and first reported