Spain has closed 19 airports as a cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano drifts south over Western Europe. The government said over 400 flights would be cancelled, leaving almost 40,000 people stuck in airports stretching from La Coruna in the northwest to Barcelona in the northeast.

MUMBAI: An Indian judge on Thursday condemned to death the sole surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai siege after a year-long trial over the bloody attacks.

NEW YORK: The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday denied any role in the botched car bombing in Times Square but praised the suspect for a ”brave job,” as New York authorities pressed him on his claims of terrorist training.

WASHINGTON/KARACHI: A former financial analyst has admitted attempting to detonate a car bomb in New York City’s Times Square, authorities have said.

ROME – Italian police fined a Muslim woman for wearing a full veil in a street in the northern city of Novara, possibly the first such incident in Italy, city officials said Tuesday.

Police are investigating a fire which seriously damaged a mosque in the West Bank village of Luban Al Sharqiya and which local residents say was an act of arson carried out by Jewish settlers.

NEW YORK: A man identified as a US citizen of Pakistani origin was arrested in connection with an attempted car bombing in New York’s Times Square, news media reported Tuesday.

A car bomb has been found in New York City’s Time Square, prompting US police to evacuate thousands of people from the area.

Muslims, academics and human rights groups have hit out at a looming public ban in Belgium on the full face veil, following a decision in the country’s parliament to make the wearing of the article of clothing illegal.

GAZA CITY (Agencies) Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip late on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said.