
1,200-year-old ‘piggy bank’ with gold coins
JERUSALEM: Israeli archaeologists discovered a hoard of seven gold coins dating back to 1,200 years ago, reported Xinhua News Agency, quoting the Israel Antiquities Authority

JERUSALEM: Israeli archaeologists discovered a hoard of seven gold coins dating back to 1,200 years ago, reported Xinhua News Agency, quoting the Israel Antiquities Authority

CANBERRA: South Australia (SA) has been warned to prepare for catastrophic bushfire conditions for the third time in 10 days, reported Xinhua news agency. The

LONDON: Kate Middleton, the wife of Prince William, wrote an open letter of thanks to Britain’s midwives on Friday after spending several days observing a

PASADENA (United States): Nasa’s Mars 2020 rover will head off for the Red Planet next year. But like Voyager, Galileo and Cassini before it, the

SANTIAGO: Thousands of protesters clashed with police Friday in Santiago in a fresh round of anti-government demonstrations that erupted more than two months ago in

PARIS: The head of a hardline French trade union on Friday vowed to press on with a crippling strike that has cast a shadow over

GAZA CITY (Palestinian Territories): Hundreds of Palestinians took part in protests along the Gaza-Israel border Friday, the last of the Hamas-backed demonstrations until March. Amid

BEIRUT: Civilians on Friday packed a road leading out of a flash point town in north-west Syria, where two weeks of heightened regime and Russian

MOSCOW: Russia’s defence minister told President Vladimir Putin on Friday the first Avangard hypersonic missiles had been put into service, in a move hailed as

JAKARTA: Hundreds of Muslims in Indonesia held a protest Friday against China’s treatment of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang in front of China’s embassy in Jakarta.