KANSAS: Ah, romance. A 70-year-old American man from Kansas robbed a bank so that he could be sent to prison to get away from his wife, court documents showed Tuesday.
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz returned home on Sunday after a month-long holiday in Morocco, and ordered a month's extra pay for Saudi military and security personnel actively involved in military operations in Yemen, state news agency SPA said.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM: The widely-held English dream of buying your own home is under threat as rising costs have pushed ownership to the lowest level for 30 years, a new study revealed on Tuesday.
LONDON: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has on Sunday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was fast recovering and would likely be shifted from hospital to home in few days, ARY News reported.
LONDON: A British goldfish named Nemo is recovering well after the beloved pet's owners paid £200 (261 euros, $291) for a rare operation to remove a tumour at a hospital 200 kilometres from their home.
JERUSALEM: Israeli soldiers have been ordered to take their guns with them when off duty to allow them to intervene in the event of Palestinian attack, the military said on Tuesday.
NEUBRANDENBURG, GERMANY: German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended.
MANILA: Confetti rained down as tens of thousands of shrieking fans paralysed traffic in the Philippine capital on Monday to welcome home the newly crowned Miss Universe, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach.
KATHMANDU: After twin earthquakes in April and May claimed 9,000 lives and left vast swathes of Nepal in ruins, survivors worried if they reused the brick rubble, they would end up with the same vulnerable, seismically unsound structures.
KARACHI: The MQM leader Faisal Sabzwari, who is out-of-scene since the party embroiled in a torrent of problems in the wake of Rangers operation, said he would return to the country in couple of days.
TEXAS: Police and FBI on Monday searched the Arizona apartment of one of two gunmen shot dead on Sunday after they allegedly opened fire with assault rifles outside a Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
SILAO, Mexico: A 14-year-old Mexican girl grabbed by police at school and sent to the United States in a case of mistaken identity was reunited with her parents Wednesday, a happy ending to a saga that captivated the country.
LOS ANGELES: The car racing action flick "Furious 7" topped the North American box office for a third week in a row, earning a whopping $1.2 billion in worldwide ticket sales, industry figures showed Monday.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will on Sunday start returning the first batches of nearly a million civilians ordered to leave their homes ahead of an anti-Taliban offensive in North Waziristan on the Afghanistan border, officials told Reuters on Friday.
AHMEDABAD: Hardline Hindu groups came under fire Sunday after some 200 Christians were converted in the Indian prime minister's home state, amid increasing concern at the right-wing government's perceived pro-Hindu tilt.
OSLO: Domestic violence, mainly against women and children, kills far more people than wars and is an often overlooked scourge that costs the world economy more than $8 trillion a year, experts said on Tuesday.