Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti acclaimed Cristiano Ronaldo as the best player he had ever coached as he prepared for Wednesday’s Champions League Group B match at Bulgarian underdogs Ludogorets. “Yes, undoubtedly Ronaldo is number one,” the 55-year-old Italian, told a news conference at the Vasil Levski national stadium inRead More

Sydney, Australian military jets are to join in the US-led air war against the Islamic State group in Iraq, conducting refuelling and support missions, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday. Australia deployed some 600 troops and several aircraft to the United Arab Emirates in mid-September as it geared up toRead More

Washington, Published reports have revealed that US President Barack Obama rode an elevator this month with an armed security contractor who had three criminal convictions, a violation of Secret Service security protocols. The Washington Examiner and the Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the latest incident took place in anRead More

Washington, A patient being treated at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the United States, federal health officials announced. Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said the unidentified patient is being kept in isolation and that the hospitalRead More

Hong Kong, Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters chanted and booed outside a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of Communist China Wednesday, with crowds expected to reach their biggest yet as the city starts a two-day public holiday. Politicians from Hong Kong and the mainland clinked champagne glasses to mark China’sRead More

Turkey,The Turkish government on Tuesday said it has asked parliament to authorise military action in Iraq and Syria to halt the advance of Islamic State (IS) jihadists. Lawmakers are due on Thursday to debate the motion after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Ankara was going to take a moreRead More

Kabul, Two suicide attackers have targeted military buses in the Afghan capital Kabul killing at least seven people, just a day after the new government signed a security pact with the United States. Sources told Al Jazeera that seven Afghan National Army officers were killed in one of the attacksRead More

Mexico, Fourteen of 57 students who vanished after deadly shootings in southern Mexico have turned up alive but relatives feared for those still missing as authorities search for them. A dozen troops manned a checkpoint Tuesday between Guerrero’s state capital, Chilpancingo, and the town of Iguala, stopping cars and checkingRead More

Capas Town, Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Wednesday criticised the United Nations for refusing to better arm Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, saying this made their mission “impossible”. Aquino said the UN’s rejection of his request to give the peacekeepers more weapons had left them unnecessarily vulnerable when Al-Qaeda-linkedRead More

Algeria , Algeria has identified suspects in the kidnapping and beheading of French tourist Herve Gourdel, the justice minister said Tuesday, as the North Africa country widened its probe into the brutal execution. Gourdel was seized on September 21 by Jund al-Khilifa, or “Soldiers of the Caliphate,” a group linkedRead More