Around 1,100 sub-Saharan African migrants tried to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco Sunday by storming a border fence, though most were eventually turned back, the Spanish government said. Dozens of migrants made it to the top of the 6 meter barbed wire fence in...

Iraqi forces have retaken around two thirds of the eastern half of Mosul from ISIS since the start of an offensive in mid-October, a top commander said Sunday. "From east Mosul... more than 60 percent" has been retaken from ISIS, Staff Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi, a top commander...

(Zaman al-Wasl) “What did Smurf tell you… Didn’t Smurf bring you… He ‘smurfed’ him…. On the ‘smurfing’,” are repeated as a reference to the deceased artist Philemon Wehbe a Lebanese artist who played the role of the oblivious person whose life remains untouched by any issue...

Hundreds of thousands of merrymakers witnessed the descent of the kaleidoscopic New Year's Eve ball in Times Square at midnight Sunday, celebrating a century-old New York tradition under an unprecedented umbrella of security. As many as 2 million people, surrounded by a ring of 40-ton sand...