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Conservative Muslims in Pakistan's northwest are blaming the animist Kalash for a powerful earthquake that flattened entire villages in October,…

Israel security forces arrested 24 suspected members of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in overnight raids in the northern West Bank,…

Around three million extra babies will be born each year after Beijing abolished its hugely controversial "one child" policy to…

Global energy use is set to grow by one-third over the next 25 years, driven mostly by emerging economies, the…

When young Moroccan Rachid paid US$1,500 to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, he never thought he would end up instead…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said it "may well be on the verge of a significant oil find"…

Egyptian police said on Monday they killed a top Islamic State group operative in the capital implicated in a string…

Will Smith, one of the first mainstream rappers who has since become an Oscar-nominated actor, is returning to music with…

Veteran Franco-Tunisian author, Hedi Kaddour, is the favorite to win France's top literary award, the Goncourt, when it is announced…

A state funeral in North Korea has sparked another fresh round of purge rumors after one of Kim Jong-Un's most…