Dubai starts tests in bid to become first city with flying taxis
Dubai has staged a test flight for what it said would soon be the world’s first drone taxi service under an ambitious plan by the United Arab Emirates city to lead…
Voting starts in Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence referendum
Voting has started in an independence referendum organised by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, despite regional and international fears that it would stoke instability and violence across…
Cambodia’s opposition puts out banners calling for leader’s release
Cambodia‘s main opposition party has put up banners around the country calling for the release of its detained leader Kem Sokha in a challenge to the government of Prime Minister…
Masked gunman kills woman, wounds several others at Nashville church
A masked gunman has killed a woman in the parking lot of a Tennessee church and wounded six worshippers inside the building before shooting himself in a scuffle with an…
Mexicans turn to church as earthquake death toll hits 320
Mexicans have packed churches to pray for the victims of the country’s deadliest quake in 32 years as rescue teams searched against the odds for any survivors trapped under rubble…
Latest deadly quake, volcanic ash spread alarm in Mexico
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake that shook Mexico on Saturday has been blamed for five deaths, spreading fear among a population reeling from multiple natural disasters and interrupting the search for…
Germany votes as history beckons for Merkel, and far-right
Germans will vote in a national election today that is likely to see Chancellor Angela Merkel win a historic fourth term and a far-right party enter parliament for the first…
N.Korea says rockets to US ‘inevitable’ as US bombers fly off N.Korean coast
North Korea says targeting the US mainland with its rockets was inevitable after “Mr. Evil President” Donald Trump called Pyongyang’s leader “rocket man”, further escalating rhetoric over the North‘s nuclear weapons…
Small N.Korean quake likely natural, not nuclear test – experts
A small earthquake near North Korea‘s nuclear test site today was probably not manmade, the nuclear proliferation watchdog and a South Korean official said, easing fears Pyongyang had exploded another…
British actor Colin Firth gets Italian citizenship after Brexit vote
British actor Colin Firth, who has often played the role of a quintessential Englishman in his many films, has become an Italian citizen, Italy’s Interior Ministry said. British media reported…
