After Justin Bieber stepped out with his struggle over Lyme and chronic mono diagnosis, many on the internet were quick to shoot fire at the singer. However, the 25-year-old Baby singer’s wife and supermodel Hailey Baldwin was quick to fire back and hammer the trolls for downplaying his struggle with the disease. In a series of tweets, the model clapped back at …

LOS ANGELES: Pop megastar Justin Bieber has revealed he has been diagnosed with Lyme disease.  25-year-old Canadian singer,  in a post on Instagram, said he will address his struggle with the illness, which is contracted through a tick bite, in a YouTube documentary. “It´s been a rough couple years but getting the right treatment that will help treat this so …

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will “step back” from senior roles in Britain’s royal family and spend more time in North America, they said on Wednesday evening, an announcement that appears to have taken his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, by surprise. After a turbulent year which saw a widening rift with the media and reports of differences with elder brother …

MOGADISHU: At least four people were killed, including a senior government official, when a car bomb exploded close to a checkpoint near Somalia’s parliament in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said. A plume of thick black smoke was seen over the city and witnesses said a number of vehicles were on fire. Islamist group Al Shabaab claimed the attack, …

NEW DELHI: In a series of setbacks to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) zeal to implement a controversial law on citizenship, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been forced to cancel his trip to Assam, reports said on Wednesday. They said Mr Modi was advised not to visit the state, which is under a veritable siege and where he was due …

Two rockets fell on Wednesday inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign missions, but caused no casualties, the Iraqi military said. Sirens were sounding inside the Green Zone. Police sources told Reuters at least one of the rockets fell 100 metres (yards) from the US Embassy. “Two Katyusha rockets fall inside the Green Zone without causing casualties. …

PARIS: A child stowaway was found dead on Wednesday in the undercarriage of a plane at a Paris airport, officials said, having probably frozen to death or asphyxiated on the flight from Ivory Coast. The child, aged around 10, had clambered into the underbelly of the Air France Boeing 777 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It took off on Tuesday evening …

Trump administration officials failed to convince many US lawmakers on Wednesday that an imminent threat had justified the killing of a top Iranian military commander, and congressional Democrats scheduled a vote on legislation to rein in the president’s ability to wage war. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and …

Asian stock markets rebounded Thursday as anxiety over potential US-Iranian conflict eased. Tokyo’s benchmark gained more than 2 per cent. Shanghai, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia markets also advanced. Markets sank after Tehran retaliated for the US killing of an Iranian general by launching missiles at American bases in Iraq. But anxiety subsided after reports indicated no Americans were killed …

Even as the United States and Iran appear to signal a keenness to avoid further conflict, oil and gas shipowners are bracing to pay a price for the war of words that culminated in rocket strikes in Iraq over the last week — higher insurance bills. According to industry sources, payments known as war risk premiums for tankers shuttling through …