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Early on Saturday, more than 160 passengers and crew on a Russian Boeing 737 skidded off the end of a runway during a rough landing in the Russian city of Sochi, plunging into a river and exploding into flames. All passengers and crew managed to escape, a

"Police investigators in Amsterdam included an extremist attack as a possible motive.' 17 years since 9/11 and the elites will not say it. I S L A M.

Match-week four brings to us some crucial encounters which will impact the shape of the league table. The first three weeks have given us an idea of which clubs are playing the best football. There have been some disappointments, like Arsenal and United. Here are the must-check-out matches.

One of Britain's best-loved MPs has quit Labour in protest at the anti-Semitic and increasingly vicious direction it has taken under Corbyn.

Russia's contract with the United States to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) is due to expire in April, Russia's deputy prime minister for defense and space agency said on August 31.

At least 17 people have died after contracting West Nile virus from mosquitos in Greece

In his 11-page letter of accusations, Vigano further charged that there is a powerful “homosexual current” among the Vatican prelates closest to the pope. And it needs be stated clearly: This is a homosexual scandal. Almost all of the predators and criminals are male, as are most of the victims:

Argentina's Central Bank on Thursday increased its benchmark interest rate to 60%, the world's highest, in an effort to halt a sharp slide in the value of the peso, which plunged to a record low.The peso fell more than 15% against the dollar on Th

US President Donald Trump warned evangelical leaders that if Republicans lose control of Congress in the midterm elections, Democrats will institute change violently. At a White House meeting on Monday, Trump said everything was at stake for his conservative agenda if his party loses in November.

The evidence is known to date, including some just discovered, strongly suggests the Wahhaj family had turned their rural compound into a terrorist training camp.

A woman journalist of a television channel in Bangladesh was hacked to death with a sharp-edged weapon by some unidentified assailants at her home last night.

Suborna Nodi, 32, was a correspondent of private news channel Ananda TV and also worked for the Daily Jagroto Bangla newspaper,

The Guru Nanak Gurdwara Sahib in Leith city, Scotland has been severely damaged in a suspected arson attack with police treating the "suspicious" act as a hate crime, BBC reported.

It was set on fire in what was believed to be a "deliberate" act at around 5 am yesterday.

No one was injured in the

A strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia today, US Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there was no tsunami warning or immediate reports of damage.

The offshore tremor struck at a shallow depth of 8km, about 100km southeast of Kupang on Indonesian portion of Timor island, USGS

China appears poised to scrap the limit on the number of children couples can have, with a state-run newspaper Monday citing a draft civil code that would end decades of controversial family planning policies.The global network of Agence France Presse cov

Scotland's Edinburgh University is set to hand out pronoun badges to freshers joining in a new term so they know whether to refer to each other as "he", "she" or "they".

The move is intended to avoid any potential "misgendering" of non-binary or transgender students, who may display the physical

Pakistan's Supreme Court today ordered the accountability court in Islamabad to conclude the remaining two corruption cases against jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family within the next six weeks, according to a media report.

The 68-year-old PML-N leader appeared before the

Afghan and U.S. officials say a U.S. strike in eastern Afghanistan has killed a senior Islamic State commander

Aboard the papal plane, the Holy Father declined to confirm or deny that he knew about the U.S. archbishops sexual misconduct in 2013,...

The former apostolic nuncio to the U.S. alleged that Pope Francis knew of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's abuses but chose to ignore them and empower McCarrick.

Pakistan's new government has banned the discretionary use of state funds and first-class air travel by officials and leaders, including the President, Prime Minister, Chief Justice, and Chief Ministers, as part of its austerity drive.

The decisions were made at a Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime