LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, just days before the release of his latest movie “The Hateful Eight.” Tarantino recalled to a crowd that had gathered for the event outside the Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard how ...

Australia captain Steve Smith was named ICC Cricketer of the Year for 2015 on Wednesday after scoring a world leading 1,734 runs at an average of 82.57 with seven centuries over the voting period. The 26-year-old right-hander kept the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy in Australia for the third straight year ...

GENEVA: More than 1 million refugees and “irregular migrants” have entered Europe in this record-breaking year, the International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday, a symbolic milestone driven by war, poverty and persecution in the Middle East and Africa. With just days left in 2015, the Geneva-based inter-governmental organisation said ...

    ADEN (AFP) – A presumed US drone strike has killed four suspected members of Al-Qaeda in central Yemen, a security official said Wednesday. The raid targeted their vehicle on Tuesday evening near the border of Baida and Shabwa provinces, the official said. The United States is the only ...

BEIRUT (AFP) – At least 23 people were killed in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor Tuesday, including nine children when a school was shelled by the Islamic State group, a monitor said. At least 24 more people died in air raids or fighting outside the capital, in the ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraqi security forces advanced Tuesday into the centre of Ramadi for a final push. The forces are aiming to retake the city they lost to the Islamic State group in May, officials said. “We went into the centre of Ramadi from several fronts and we began purging ...

LONDON (AFP) – The father of toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose lifeless body on a Turkish beach became a symbol of the refugee crisis, has made a Christmas appeal to the world to open its doors to Syrians fleeing conflict. The message, to be broadcast by Britain’s Channel 4 on Christmas ...

PARIS (AFP) – A jihadist plot was foiled last week in the French region of Orleans, southwest of Paris, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Tuesday, as the government prepared constitutional changes to enshrine emergency police powers. “A planned attack targeting representatives of state forces in the Orleans region was foiled ...

BEIJING: The Chinese government is in advanced talks with the United States (US) on repatriating five of China’s most wanted corruption suspects and will hand over whatever evidence is needed by its US counterparts, the state-run China Daily said on Wednesday. In April, China published a list of 100 of ...

Tripoli (AFP) – On the outskirts of Libya s capital, Imad wipes the dirt from the tombstone of his brother, one of hundreds of migrants whose journey ended in the “cemetery of the unknown”. No name is marked on the grave, but at least it has a date, and with the ...