Anti-government protests broke out in Iran for the third day running on Saturday as separate state-sponsored rallies were staged to mark the end of unrest that shook the country in 2009, according to Iranian news agencies and state media. State television showed a rally in the capital...

Liverpool celebrated Virgil van Dijk's arrival at Anfield by coming from behind to beat Leicester City 2-1 thanks to Mohamed Salah's brace, while Danny Drinkwater scored his first Chelsea goal in a 5-0 rout of Stoke City. Van Dijk, signed from Southampton for a world record fee for a...

A court in Alexandria has sentenced leading rights activist Mahienour el-Massry to two years in prison on charges of illegally protesting against the Egyptian government’s decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, judicial sources said Saturday. The court tried four...

A policeman was stabbed to death Saturday in a rare attack in Oman's capital Muscat, authorities said, with his assailant described as "mentally ill." Police said the attacker stabbed the policeman at a Muscat shopping centre, adding that the assailant "was in possession of a document...