Ruthless Roger Federer thrashed suffering Croat Marin Cilic 6-3 6-1 6-4 to become the first man to win eight Wimbledon singles crowns on Sunday, five years after landing his seventh. The Swiss maestro, appearing in his 11th Wimbledon final, was challenged early on but once he broke a nervous...

Iranian media have hailed trailblazing Iran-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani following her death from cancer, with her image blazoned across newspaper front pages on Sunday. In some cases newspapers even broke with tradition and portrayed Mirzakhani without her hair covered by a hijab --...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Al-Raqqah once deeply connected to the name al-Rashid for centuries, is now only known as ‘the capital of the Islamic State’.  For this privilege alone, the city and all its civilians, according to the Islamic State, must pay the heavy price of death and displacement...

Israeli forces killed a suspected Palestinian militant they were seeking to arrest after he shot at them in the occupied West Bank, police and the military said. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the man was suspected of carrying out two shooting attacks in the West Bank on Saturday and...