Lionel Messi lit up Camp Nou and devastated Manchester United before firing a warning to Barcelona that they cannot start slowly again. Barca were superior to United in all departments for the best part of 80 minutes on Tuesday, a 3-0 win perhaps even flattering for their opponents, who...

The number of arrests in ongoing road blockages by environmentalist protesters has risen to roughly 300 in London, the Metropolitan Police said Wednesday. The updated number by police came after more than 200 arrests as the protest brought London to a standstill with some roads in the city...

Ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been moved from house arrest to prison, according to media reports on Wednesday.  Al-Bashir was moved to the maximum security Kober prison in Bahri in the capital Khartoum, where other officials from the former regime were being held, the...

At least four people were killed in heavy shelling in the Libyan capital Tripoli, an official said on Wednesday as Europe and the Gulf were divided over a push by eastern forces commander Khalifa Haftar to seize the city. Nearly two weeks into its assault, the veteran general’s...

European car sales fell 3.9 percent in March compared to the same month last year, marking the seventh-straight monthly drop, an industry body said Wednesday. "Demand decreased in all major EU markets," the European Automobile Manufacturers Association said, with the biggest falls in Italy,...

Indian election authorities have cancelled voting in a southern region of the country after seizing more than 110 million rupees ($1.5 million) they believe was meant to influence the outcome, officials said Wednesday. It is the first time a ballot has been cancelled in a national election...

Israeli forces destroyed the home on Wednesday of a Palestinian who was killed during his attempted arrest on suspicion of carrying out a December shooting. Seven peopls were wounded in the December 9 attack near the Israeli settlement of Ofra in the occupied West Bank, one of them a...

President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to rebuild Notre-Dame "even more beautifully" within five years, as all of France's cathedrals prepared to ring their bells on Wednesday to mark 48 hours since the colossal fire began. The blaze on Monday gutted the great Paris landmark, destroying the...

Protesters in Sudan blasted Arab countries Tuesday for backing the country’s ruling military council following the ouster of long-serving President Omar al-Bashir. Despite the declaration of a curfew last week, they gathered near the military headquarters in the capital and chanted slogans...

More than 192 million Indonesians flocked to the polls Wednesday to vote in the nation’s first simultaneous presidential and legislative elections. They will elect their president and vice president as well as members of the House of Representatives, Regional Representative Council and...

President Donald Trump vetoed a resolution Tuesday that called for the U.S. to end support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.   "This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service...

A mantle of gold smothers Aleppo’s ruins, hiding the rubble and filling the craters with wild flowers that for a moment seem to transform a landscape scarred by war, destruction and death. After an unusually wet winter, the warm days of spring have suddenly brought an abundance of color and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A political Security official was killed Tuesday by an improvised explosive device claimed by a new rebel group in Damascus. Saraya Qassioun has claimed the responsibility for killing Major. Abdulhamid Abdul Majeed in the western district of Qudsaya. ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Commission for Public and Political Relations in the deserted Rukban Camp has accused the Syrian regime of turning temporary shelters in central Homs province into a detention and liquidation centre. The deputy head of the Commission, Shukri Al-Shehab, told...

Shares of Netflix jumped 3 percent on Tuesday ahead of the streaming video service’s quarterly results, with traders expecting a larger than normal reaction from the stock as new competition looms from Walt Disney Co. Netflix will be the first to report March-quarter earnings among major...

President Donald Trump during a phone call on Tuesday expressed condolences to French President Emmanuel Macron over the Notre-Dame fire that devastated the Parisian landmark and offered U.S. assistance in rehabilitating the cathedral, the White House said. “Notre Dame will continue to...

At a shut-down factory in the Libyan capital, traumatized men, women and children are living in cramped huts that used to house workers but are now makeshift shelter for civilians uprooted by conflict. More than 18,000 people have been displaced, according to the United Nations, by a...

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi on Tuesday implored people in areas hit by the nation’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak to accept the disease is real and trust health workers. Mistrust of first responders and widespread misinformation propagated by some community leaders has led many in...

The first shipment of humanitarian aid from the Red Cross intended to alleviate a dire economic crisis in Venezuela arrived in the once-prosperous, oil-rich country on Tuesday, a representative of the organization and a lawmaker said. The delivery came after an about-face by President...

The U.N. Security Council is considering a British-drafted resolution that would demand a ceasefire in Libya and call on all countries with influence over the warring parties to ensure compliance. Diplomats from the 15-member council are due to meet later on Tuesday to discuss the text that...