The US, UK and France launched coordinated strikes against Syrian research, storage and military targets as President Donald Trump sought to "punish" his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical attack that killed over 70 people, media reports said. ....

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday disqualified former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office or contesting elections for lifetime in a landmark verdict that could change the course of the country's political history. ....

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Congress in written testimony on Monday that he is "responsible for" not preventing the social media platform from being used for harm, including fake news, foreign interference in elections and hate speech. ....

An airbase in Syria's Homs province was hit by a missile attack on Monday, leaving several people dead and injured, state-media reported. ....

Facebook has admitted that information of up to 87 million people, mostly in the US, may have been improperly shared with the British political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica. ....

One person has been killed and four others wounded in a shooting at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno in the US state of California, officials said. ....

Closing Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT) loopholes, the US has taken aim at its political party, the Milli Muslim League (MML), and seven leaders, as well as another front organisation adding them to its list of terrorist groups. ....

Russia has decided to expel 60 US diplomats and close the American Consulate in St. Petersburg in retaliation to a similar move by Washington against Moscow over the former-spy poisoning incident in Britain, media reports said. ....

At least 68 people were killed in a fire at a prison in Venezuela's Carabobo state, according to a government official. ....

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and social activist Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on Thursday, for the first in nearly six years after she was shot by the Taliban for advocating girls rights to education. ....