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A stargazer landed the shot of a lifetime on Wednesday after he captured extremely rare footage of a mysterious flash of light on Jupiter, which may have been an elusive meteor explosion. Texas astrophotographer Ethan Chappel captured the incredible sight while he was filming the planet, and said the event …

Pakistan said on Thursday it would suspend a rail service linking it to India. The move comes as relations between the arch-rivals continue to deteriorate over the contested Kashmir region. “We have decided to shut down Samjhauta Express,” Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed told a news conference on Thursday. The …

A man killed four people during a stabbing rampage in Southern California before officers found his car parked outside a 7-Eleven convenience store and arrested him, authorities said. In addition to the people killed, the attacker left two wounded in multiple crime scenes in Garden Grove and Santa Ana, police …

Donald Trump is to visit the sites of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas amid warnings he will not be welcome. The attacks in El Paso, where Hispanic people appear to have been targeted, and Dayton left 31 people dead. Before leaving for Ohio, he said he was concerned about …

Iraq’s security announced on Wednesday the arrest of a senior Daesh member at the head of the terrorist group’s department in charge of “spoils-of-war.” The man was identified as al-Makna Abu Shaher and was arrested by Iraqi federal police forces in 1 Huzayran area, in the province of Kirkuk, according …

Pakistan says it’s going to downgrade diplomatic relations with India and suspend trade with the neighbor state, Reuters reported. The move comes after New Delhi revoked the autonomous status of the disputed Kashmir region. The statement by the Pakistani government vowed that the country will take the Kashmir issue to …

At least 18 people were killed and over 100 others, including women and children, were injured in a car bomb explosion in Kabul on Wednesday morning, according to the Public Health Ministry. The blast targeted police headquarters in the west of Kabul during rush hour on Wednesday morning, TOLOnews said. …

Fifty-seven people have died and more than 18,000 have sought hospital treatment since July 29, when Japan was blanketed by an extreme and unrelenting heatwave. The government announced the startling figures on Tuesday, revealing that the number of people hospitalized has tripled from the previous week. Those aged 65 and …

Crowds fled in horror in New York’s iconic Times Square after fears of gunshots. Eyewitness footage captured the moment that tourists and residents sprinted for their lives in abject panic. The alarm took place at approximately 10 pm local time Tuesday night in one of the city’s busiest intersections, just …

Can you imagine what Trump and the media would have said if the shooter had been a Muslim instead of a white male?! If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim, the entire Muslim American community would be blamed for the actions of this one person. If the El …

Article 370 of the Indian Constitution gives special status to the State of Jammu and Kashmir. India controls the southern portion of Kashmir, a region that has historically been hotly contested between India and Pakistan. The Indian government has moved to scrap Article 370 of the national constitution, which grants …

Iraq’s pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, have successfully purged more than a dozen other villages in the southern part of the country’s province of Nineveh during the third phase of a major offensive to hunt down remnants of the Daesh terrorist group. The media bureau of …

More than 16,000 people have been forced to flee their homes after massive explosions at a military depot in Siberia left 12 people injured and one missing. Russian officials said 9,533 people have been evacuated and about 7,000 fled on their own after a fire at a military ammunition depot …

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the United States has not requested to deploy intermediate-range missiles in his country, stressing that such a request will be met with rejection. “It’s not been asked to us, not being considered, not been put to us. I think I can rule a line …

The death toll from a mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, increased to 22 after two more victims died in the hospital, police said. David Shimp, chief executive officer at Del Sol Medical Center in El Paso, said one patient died late Sunday night and another Monday morning. …

Britain has signed a 350 million pound ($425 million) contract with Rolls-Royce (RR.L) to provide maintenance for the engines of Typhoon fighter jets. The 346.7 million pound contract will provide maintenance support for the EJ200 engine up to 2024. The Typhoon forms the backbone of the RAF’s fighter jet fleet. …

  It is certain that ending the war in Yemen will be a turning point for the countries of the region,” Zarif told a news conference on Monday. Zarif said: “From the very beginning, we stressed that the issue in Yemen is not militarily resolved and now they have to …

The Nigerian judiciary allowed Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zaqzaki to leave for India for treatment with intelligence agents Sheikh Zakzaki’s deputy and his wife had asked the government to allow them to travel abroad for treatment, he said, adding that the second Sheikh’s eye was threatened after losing his first eye. In …

WhatsApp and Instagram are to be renamed as part of a Facebook re-brand. The two apps are to be known as “WhatsApp from Facebook” and “Instagram from Facebook”. The move is part of a broader change towards linking the three apps together and bringing them under the Facebook banner, according …

A number of Yemeni civilians were wounded, some of them seriously, on Monday, as a result of raids by the Saudi-American aggression on the city of Amran. According to “Al-Masriya Net,” Air Force launched four raids on the city of Amran, which led to the injury of a number of …