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A hijab-wearing Barbie has become a star on Instagram.The creator, Haneefah Adam, takes Barbie dolls and dresses them up in hijabs she has hand-stitched herself in mini size.Pictures of 'Hijarbie' on social media have already…

Barack Obama has accused David Cameron of being “distracted” in the aftermath of the invasion of Libya – contributing to the current deadly “mess” in the north African country.In a wide-ranging interview with The Atlantic magazine…

More than three fighters from a Misrata prominent brigade were killed Wednesday night in an attack carried out by some ISIS militants on Abu Grein security checkpoint, which lies at the eastern entrance of Misrata.The checkpoint…

A monitoring group says a top commander of so-called Islamic State was badly wounded but not killed in a recent US air strike in north-eastern Syria. On Tuesday, US defence officials said Tarkhan Batirashvili, a Georgian known as Omar…

Singapore has again been judged as the world's most expensive city but costs across the world have been highly volatile, according to researchers. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked Singapore as the priciest ahead of Zurich,…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has blamed European nations for "unilaterally" shutting the Balkan route for migrants. She said this had put Greece in a "very difficult situation" and such decisions should be taken by the whole of the…

The Central Bank of Libya announced Wednesday the start of issuing letters of credit and bank bonds for those who would like to import commodities and medicines to end the current liquidity crisis.In a joint meeting between the…

Toshiba has shown off the latest generation of its Chihira robot at a trade fair in Berlin. The machine - which is designed to look as human-like as possible - has had the German language added to its repertoire.The firm also told…

Italy won’t rush into a military intervention in Libya unless asked first by a national unity government formed in the troubled country, Italian Foreign MinisterPaolo Gentiloni said, reiterating that any military action there would need…

The Catalan giants have chosen the winning design team for their plans to increase capacity to 105,000, and showed the first images of how the stadium will lookBarcelona have revealed the first concept imagery of their plans to…