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PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber yesterday blew up a car at a crowded market in a northwestern Pakistani tribal town, killing at least 16...

KANDAHAR: A suicide attack killed at least six people including two coalition forces members and four Afghan agents in southern Afghanistan yesterday, ISAF...

KABUL: Two foreigners, thought to be a Canadian and a US citizen, were reported missing yesterday by a provincial reconstruction team in volatile...

ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has expedited the pace of expenditure for the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) under its election strategy, with...

Protesters wearing masks gather to celebrate the anniversary of the Occupy movement outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London, yesterday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio: US Repu-blican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is preparing for his second debate with President Barack Obama but also taking time to...

LONDON: British newspapers poured scorn yesterday to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union, reflecting economic angst and the...

KINSHASA: France’s President Francois Hollande stressed human rights and the need to end the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as leaders...

ALMATY: The United States has asked Britain to extradite the arrested son of Kyrgyzstan’s fugitive ex-president on fraud charges, the US embassy in...

WASHINGTON: The spectre of torture and the veil of secrecy will loom large over a new series of hearings starting tomorrow at the...

Photographers of different disciplines hang their cameras on a barbed wire barricade near the Presidential Palace to protest the recently-signed Cybercrime Law in...

Kuta: Australia’s prime minister paid her respects yesterday to the 202 people who perished a decade ago in the Bali nightclub bombings, visiting...

MANILA: The Philippine National Police (PNP) will be placed on alert as part of security measures with the expected arrival of Malaysian Prime...

TOKYO: Protesters calling for an end to the International Monetary Fund hit the streets of Tokyo yesterday as the last-resort lender held meetings...

TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is facing mounting pressure following his justice minister’s admission to past links with a yakuza gang, just...

BEIJING: Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng said yesterday that Chinese police had sent the case of his nephew, charged with intentional infliction of...

PARIS: China’s top-down political system, under pressure from a growing middle class empowered by wealth and social networks, is likely to “blow up...

  MANILA: The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is verifying reports that nine fishermen who were reported missing while fishing near the disputed Panatag (Scarborough)...