A Dubai airliner with 62 people on board nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball early Saturday while trying to land in strong winds in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all aboard.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that not even Ronald Reagan could win this year’s Republican presidential nomination, as he lamented America’s “petty, venal and mean” politics while addressing an Arab audience in a Gulf emirate ruled by sheikhs.
In 2012, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer announced that he was going to build a functioning 1-to-1 scale replica of the Titanic, the BBC reports. The ship was to begin construction in China in 2012, the 100-year anniversary of the Tantic, and set sail in 2016, but it never materialized, and some wondered if the project was dead for good.
A group of 11 Egyptian nationals, believed to have links with the Muslim Brotherhood, have been detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of an apparent crackdown on the group.
The practice of female genital mutilation is widespread in northern Iraq, and authorities there must find a way to tackle the problem, a rights group has said.