Default

PESHAWAR:  Enraged by widespread media coverage of Malala Yousafzai,  the Pakistani Taliban led by Hakimullah Mehsud reportedly planned to target media organisations, particularly...

    Kandahar: Afghan officials said yesterday that a Nato air strike killed three children while it was targeting Taliban insurgents planting mines on a...

Moro Islamic Liberation Front Peace Panel Chief Mohagher Iqbal (left) exchanges documents with Philippine government chief peace negotiator Marvic Leonen (right) after signing...

ULAN BATOR: Mongolia’s capital has removed its last statue of Lenin, one of the final vestiges of the country’s longtime alliance with the...

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s president blocked a world Islamic body from opening an office in the country, an official said yesterday, bowing to rallies against...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s revered and charismatic former king Norodom Sihanouk, whose life encompassed turbulent years of rule, exile and war including the Khmer...

  JAKARTA: A former Indonesian police officer radicalised by an Islamic extremist group was jailed for three-and-half years for hiding suspects in a suicide...

SEOUL: South Korea’s defence minister apologised yesterday for a security lapse that allowed a defecting North Korean soldier to walk unchecked across one...

Hofstra University students Josh Ettinger (left) and Tevon Hyman act as stand-ins for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and US President Barack Obama...

EDINBURGH: Scotland set up a historic independence referendum yesterday after its leader and Britain’s prime minister finalised arrangements for a vote that could...

LONDON: Britain will pull out of a raft of European Union law-and-order legislation, the government said yesterday, in a move likely to please...

MOMBASA, Kenya: Kenyan police arrested the leader of the separatist Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) and shot dead two supporters in a house raid...

MOSCOW: Several Muslim families pulled their daughters out of schools in Russia’s south after the girls were told they were not allowed to...

CHICAGO: A fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroid injections expanded to 15 states yesterday as Pennsylvania reported its first case of the...

A US couple in India poses for a photograph with characterisations of Uncle Sam (left) and the Statue of Liberty (right) after casting...

New Delhi: India Against Corruption (IAC) leader Arvind Kejriwal yesterday produced “more evidence” of financial bungling regarding a trust run by Law Minister...

Kochi: While Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy is determined to see his pet Air Kerala project take off by April 14, 2013, aviation...

JERUSALEM: International maestro Zubin Mehta was yesterday presented with a medal of honour by Israel’s Shimon Peres for his decades of work with...