WASHINGTON: Jimmy Carter, the earnest peanut farmer from Georgia who served as the 39th president of the United States, passed away at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday at

MUAN COUNTY, SOUTH KOREA: The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday when an airliner belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting

Pope Francis led the world’s Roman Catholics into Christmas with a solemn Mass on Christmas Eve at St. Peter’s Basilica, marking the 12th Christmas of his pontificate.   The Mass

A passenger plane traveling from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, according to the country’s Ministry of Emergency Situations.   Flight J2-8243, an Embraer 190

  Peter Mandelson is set to be appointed as Britain’s next ambassador to the United States, marking the first time in nearly 50 years that a politician has been given

GAZA STRIP: Gaza’s civil defence agency said a series of Israeli strikes on Thursday killed at least 30 Palestinians. The violence in the Gaza Strip continues to rock the coastal

US president-elect Donald Trump on Friday threatened the European Union (EU) with tariffs if the bloc does not reduce its “tremendous” trade gap with Washington through oil and gas purchases. “I told

LONDON: The UK, Italy and Japan on Friday launched a joint venture to develop a supersonic next-generation fighter jet by 2035, replacing the Eurofighter Typhoon. Britain’s BAE Systems, Italy’s Leonardo

Ukrainian drones attacked a fuel storage facility in Russia’s central Oryol region, causing a fire, local officials said early Saturday. Andrei Klychkov, the governor of Oryol, confirmed the strike, describing