United Nations leaders and agencies have welcomed the entry of a humanitarian aid convoy into Gaza via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt but noted that it is only a small beginning, still far......
The 13,000-strong staff working with the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees is “terrified and tired” and described the situation in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip as a......
Israel's ultimatum that over one million people in northern Gaza should relocate within 24 hours is "extremely dangerous" and "simply not possible", UN chief Antonio Guterres has said, asserting......
The two major earthquakes, which devastated a huge area in south-eastern Turkey and a part of Syria last Monday, killing more than 29,605 people in Turkey and 4,574 in Syria,......
Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children, said on Monday that he feels lucky to have survived the last year's brutal stabbing at a literary event in......
Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Ray Liotta, an actor best known for his role as the hustler-turned-mob snitch Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas, has died. Liotta, 67, leaves......
The Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return To Hogwarts has generated a lot of buzz ever since it started streaming on Amazon Prime Video on January 1. While everyone's excited to see Daniel......
IMAGE: Mitchell Marsh won his first Allan Border medal; Ashleigh Gardner with her second Belinda Clark Award. Photograph: Cricket Australia/X Mitchell Marsh won the prestigious Allan Border......
One of cricket's greatest players passed into the ages on Monday.Rediff.com salutes the legend. IMAGE: Bedi in action, August 2, 1971. Photograph: Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty......
IMAGE: Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay poses after winning the women's 5,000m in a world record 14:00.21 during the Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, on Sunday, September 17.......
IMAGE: Arsenal's CEO Vinai Venkatesham will leave with the club enjoying a resurgence under manager Mikel Arteta, having finished second behind Manchester City in the Premier League last season......
IMAGE: Kyle Walker has won five Premier League titles, two FA Cups and one Champions League crown with Manchester City. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Reuters Manchester City defender Kyle Walker......