New Delhi: Reigning national champion Vikash Malik (60kg) powered through to the pre-quarterfinals of the Asian Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan today with a well earned victory over Nooristani

Her eyes welling up with tears, actress Angelina Jolie said Tuesday she heard 'horrific' and 'heartbreaking' accounts from Syrian refugees who fled the civil war in their country to find shelter in a

Fighting broke out between Jordanian and Syrian forces in a border region between the two countries overnight, but a Jordanian source said on Saturday no one on Jordan's side appeared to have been killed.

The family crept across farmland under night's cover, heading for the border, when Syrian troops opened fire. Bullets whizzed around them as they broke into a mad dash, survivors say.

Jordan granted political asylum to a Syrian pilot on Thursday hours after he landed his jet at a military air base in the kingdom, in the first such air force defection in the 15-month revolt.

"The c

A 17-year-old Jordanian went on a shooting spree, killing his father, mother, two brothers and an uncle because he had 'differences' with them, police said on Thursday.

A Jordanian political activist was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison for undermining King Abdullah II's dignity, after he set alight a picture of the monarch this month.

"The (military) st

A Jordanian prosecutor on Friday charged a man with premeditated murder after he confessed to killing his 22-year-old wife over her alleged 'bad behaviour', a judicial official said.

"The suspect, in

Jordanian security forces have arrested 70 Islamists after violent protests in which many people were hurt, most of them policemen, a security official told AFP on Saturday.

Cairo: Latest developments in the unrest sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.

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- Residents in the Libyan oil town of Ras Lanuf, the front line in a rebel uprising against ruler Moamer Gad