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A typhoon that spoiled Christmas Day in parts of the Philippines weakened slightly on Monday as it roared toward a congested region near the country's capital, officials said.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, 90, missed a traditional Christmas church service on Sunday for the first time in decades due to a heavy cold, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said.

Russia along with Pakistan and China will hold secretary-level trilateral talks in Moscow on December 27 about restoration of peace in Afghanistan, the media reported.

A gurudwara in Canada has been spray-painted with "racist" graffiti and profanity by some unidentified persons, prompting police to probe the incident as a hate crime, a media report said.

The Entebbe film crew were forced to stop the shooting of the movies as the hijacked Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane landed at Malta International Airport and it created a security nightmare.

The two hijackers who have forced a Libyan passenger jet to land in Malta have said they will release all the 118 passengers if their demands are met, Maltese media reported, but there is no clarity yet on what are the demands of the duo who are being des...

An airliner on an internal flight in Libya was hijacked and diverted to Malta where it landed on Friday, Maltese media reported.

As many as 28 suspected militants linked to the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have recently been killed in nine separate US drone strikes across Yemen, the Pentagon said.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is back on the US government's annual list of "notorious markets" that sell pirated goods.

German media on Tuesday said suspect in Berlin Christmas market attack was 23-year-old from Pakistan named as Naved B who arrived in Germany a year ago as an asylum seeker.

In its February edition of 2011, Vogue magazine published a profile on his wife Asma-al-Assad titled “A Rose in the Desert”. The article was nothing less than a glowing tribute to the Assads.

The jailed confidante of disgraced South Korean President Park Geun-hye denied on the first day of her trial on Monday that she used her ties to the presidential ties to extort money from powerful companies.

The UN Security Council will vote Monday on a French-drafted resolution to quickly deploy UN observers to Aleppo, with Russia, Syria's ally, giving cautious backing to the measure.

Armed men burned five buses that were supposed to be used for an evacuation near Idlib in Syria on Sunday, holding up a deal to allow thousands to depart the last rebel pocket in Aleppo, where evacuees crammed into buses for hours, waiting to move.

US Secretary of State John Kerry expressed the hope in Saudi Arabia today that a new ceasefire in the Yemen conflict could be agreed within two weeks.

One of the next targets for the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad will probably be the heartland of rebel territory, the neighboring province of Idlib.