
ECONOMY
Chinese meltdown hits US stock market
Shock waves have been sent across stock markets due to the Chinese economic meltdown with the US stocks closing sharply lower.

Shock waves have been sent across stock markets due to the Chinese economic meltdown with the US stocks closing sharply lower.

North and South Korea successfully conclude marathon talks aimed at curbing the recently heightened tension.

The Russian foreign minister slams the US vice president’s call for partitioning Iraq as “highly irresponsible”.

Senior Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr calls on Iraqi people to hold a rally in Baghdad to urge the implementation of reforms in the country.

Two men have been arrested in Maryland over attempts to fly drugs and pornography into a prison.

A mass trial of 41 Takfiri suspects accused of terror links and plot to topple the UAE government begins in Abu Dhabi.

Senator Debbie Stabeno voices support for the nuclear agreement with Iran.

India's ONGC Videsh says it has submitted Iran a revised plan for development of the giant Farzad-B gas field in the Persian Gulf.

A military campaign in Iran is the last thing President Obama wants to contemplate during the time he has left in office, says an analyst.

A Saudi police officer is wounded in a drive-by shooting in the kingdom’s Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Iran is lining up water and electricity projects worth $50 billion for investment after the removal of sanctions, Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian says.

A 13-meter-long whale is washed up dead along a southern Iranian beach.

An Iranian television reporter is critically injured in a mortar attack in Syria.

Amnesty International says Burundi's security forces tortured opponents of President Nkurunziza's third-term bid with acid and iron bars.

Somali government forces end al-Shabab’s six-year-long control over a southwestern village.

UNESCO condemns 'new war crime' committed by Daesh militants in Syria's Palmyra ruins.

An Indian MiG-21 fighter jet crashes in the Indian-administered Kashmir region, with no reported casualties.

Iran’s Larijani says Britain should leave behind its old habit of interfering in Tehran’s affairs.