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LONDON: U.S. counter-terrorism officials backed negotiations with two prominent jihadi clerics in a failed attempt to save the life of an American hostage who was later beheaded by Islamic State militants, the Guardian newspaper reported on Friday.

ABU DHABI: Police in Abu Dhabi are investigating the death of an American woman stabbed in a shopping centre toilets by a suspect wearing a Muslim veil, official media reported Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES: Mike Nichols, a nine-time Tony Award winner on Broadway and the Oscar-winning director of films such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "The Graduate" and "Carnal Knowledge," died on Wednesday at age 83, ABC News said.

RIYADH: The gunman who shot and killed an American and wounded another in Riyadh was a disgruntled former employee of defense contractor Vinnell Arabia and a US-Saudi citizen, a US diplomat said.

RIYADH: An unidentified gunman shot dead an American and wounded another in the Saudi capital on Tuesday when he opened fire on their vehicle, police said.

SANAA: Al Qaeda militants in Yemen executed three local men in the easterly Hadramout province on Monday whom they suspected of assisting U.S. drone strikes, security sources told Reuters.

As Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) are making the youth jump on their revolution and freedom from corrupt autocratic rule bandwagon in Pakistan. The debate about what is actually a revolution is on the rise in the country.