KATHMANDU: Nepal police fired into a crowd of demonstrators on Monday, killing one person as fresh protests erupted in the country's southern plains...
KATHMANDU: Nepal police fired into a crowd of demonstrators on Monday, killing one person as fresh protests erupted in the country's southern plains...
BY ALISTER DOYLE BONN (Germany): Climate change is bringing small risks that tropical cyclones will form in the Persian Gulf for the first...
Kabul: The Taliban yesterday admitted covering up the death of longtime leader Mullah Omar for two years, saying they had wanted to keep...
(FROM LEFT) Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Prime Minister Najib Razak and King Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah wave national flags during...
MANILA: An influential Christian group in the Philippines ended a protest yesterday over the prosecution of its leaders, calling off a blockade by...
Migrants wait for a train to Austria at a train station in Budapest, Hungary, yesterday. Vienna: Austrian security forces stopped two trains with...
Mourners follow the funeral procession of scholar M M Kalburgi at the Karnataka University in Dharwad yesterday. Bangalore: Indian scholars yesterday condemned the...
A view of the colonnade in the historical city of Palmyra, Syria. Damascus: A blast rocked the ancient ruins in Syria’s Palmyra on...
Pro-government Libyan forces aim their weapons during clashes in the streets with the Shura Council of Libyan Revolutionaries Dec. 28, 2014. (Reuters) TRIPOLI:...
MADRID: At least five people died and another six were injured on Monday in an explosion at a fireworks factory in northeastern Spain,...
Calais camp for 1,500 migrants CALAIS: France plans to build a camp this winter for as many as 1,500 migrants in the northern...
MUMBAI: A court here on Monday extended till September 5 the police custody of Indrani Mukherjea and two others accused of killing her...
JAKARTA: Indonesian trade unions expect tens of thousands of workers to call for higher wages at a mass protest against job cuts on...
RIYADH: Saudi authorities said Monday that three Canadians, one Pakistani and a Nigerian woman were among 10 people killed in a fire at...
M M Ramachandran By Stanley Carvalho and Tom Arnold ABU DHABI/DUBAI: A Dubai-based gold and jewellery retailer has defaulted on loans worth about...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's top diplomat said Monday that military offensives in its northwestern tribal areas had almost wiped out the Haqqani militant network known...
BANGKOK: Two weeks on from the Bangkok bombing, the shrine devastated by the attack has lost none of its lustre for ethnic Chinese...
TOKYO: Tokyo's sixties-era modernist masterpiece Hotel Okura, which hosted foreign leaders, royalty, celebrities and even James Bond, turned off the lights Monday, more...
