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The leader of a powerful Syrian rebel group that controls key suburbs of Damascus was killed in an airstrike on Friday, according to activists and local media. It was a blow to the forces fighting against the government of Bashar Assad.

“As a non-vegetarian can have a vegetarian meal but not the other way round, the decision was logical”, the report quoted an AI official said. “There will be no tea or coffee service in lunch/dinner flight”, the circular issued by Air India’s general...

While the state of the art technology on the space station should make it fairly straightforward to phone home, former army pilot Tim Peake hit a couple of snags with his “this is Major Tim to ground control” routine.

The space agency announced today that the launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander mission scheduled for next March has been scrubbed due to a persistent vacuum leak in the lander’s primary science instrument.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command usually focuses on USA airspace threats, but switches gears each year to help children track Santa’s journey.

Sushma Swaraj, Indian foreign minister, went to Pakistan this month – the first such visit in three years – after Mr Modi and Mr Sharif’s meeting in Paris.

All seemed fixed until Monday when testing in extreme cold temperatures (-49 degrees Fahrenheit/-45 degrees Celsius) found the instrument again failed to hold a vacuum.

If the user employs similar password over their accounts (a number of studies have discovered that they do), or access job-related portals from home, the hackers can pounce on their their targets via those gateways. “As (a) part of this effort, Yahoo will now notify you if...

Vader can take comfort in the fact that he is not alone in struggling to prove that his legal name was inspired by a franchise so powerful that it feels like half of Earth has already seen the new Star Wars movie.

People dressed as Santa Claus gather in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park during the SantaCon 2015 in New York City December 12, 2015, the 21st anniversary of the event that sees hundreds of people dress as Father Christmas.

But U.S. Strategic Command put the conjecture to rest when it announced the light was caused by a Russian SL-4 rocket re-entering the atmosphere over Arizona about 7:08 p.m. MT. There are possibilities that the rocket’s body detached when it was taking items to the space,...

This time around, the moon will reach its peak size in the U.S.at 6:11 a.m. ET on Christmas morning, according to NBC News. The full moon, which is the last of the year, is called the Full Cold Moon because it occurs at the start of winter.

Roderick Bobbitt, Hawai’i: Bobbitt shot extremely well in scoring 30 points in a win over Auburn, shooting 8-for-13 from the field and 8-for-8 from the foul line.

The adoption of the Global Climate Change Agreement (COP21) means nations now have between April 22, 2016 and April 21, 2017 to adopt the agreement as per their domestic legal frameworks.

Given this started happening in the past few minutes on Christmas Day, surely Half-Life developer Valve – Steam’s overlord – didn’t deploy a change over the festival weekend?