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Special gun salutes were staged close to London’s iconic Tower Bridge and in Hyde Park on Saturday to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 92nd birthday. -AP

A missile trail lights up the night sky over Damascus. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP

Maddison Keeney (front) lost control of her dive and landed awkwardly   GOLD COAST: Esther Qin and Georgia Sheehan snatched women’s 3m synchro springboard gold after a rival Aussie pair crashed from first place to last with a disastrous final dive at the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday. Qin and Sheehan jumped ...

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (2nd right) and State leader in North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet (right) lay flowers at a makeshift memorial at the square where a man drove a van into an open-air restaurant in Muenster, western Germany. (Michael Gottschalk/AFP)

Models present creations from the Marta Jakubowski collection during their catwalk show on the first day of London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2018 A model displays a creation during the Central Saint Martins show at London Fashion Week, in London, Britain Models wait backstage ahead of the catwalk show by British ...

  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been in Sunderland today where they took in the city’s vibrant arts scene and state-of-the art engineering. William and Kate officially opened the Fire Station, which was transformed into the city’s £3.5 million pounds new music and arts hub. Chatting to a ...

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth sits next to fashion editor Anna Wintour as they view Richard Quinn’s runway show before presenting him with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, as she visits London Fashion Week’s BFC Show Space in central London, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. (Yui Mok/Pool photo via ...

LONDON: The 71st British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards were held last night at London’s Royal Albert Hall. A plethora of stars, including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were in attendance at the ceremony where celebrities stood in solidarity with the #MeToo movement which took centre stage. ...

SEOUL: In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side Friday night under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger, suspicion and bloodshed. The sister of North Korea’s leader, ...

CAIRO: The Giza Pyramids in Egypt saw a unusual spectacle yesterday evening where the world’s shortest woman and the world’s tallest man met up for an event organized by Egyptian Culture Ministry. Sultan Kösen a 35 year old farmer from Turkey, standing 2.51 meters tall and Jyoti Amge, an actress ...