TAIPEI: The Taiwanese government is investigating whether Xiaomi Inc, China’s leading smartphone company by domestic shipments, is a cyber security threat and will...
TAIPEI: The Taiwanese government is investigating whether Xiaomi Inc, China’s leading smartphone company by domestic shipments, is a cyber security threat and will...
HONG KONG: Striking students marched on Hong Kong’s financial district yesterday, taking their protest for greater democracy to the city’s commercial centre for...
TOKYO: Japan said yesterday it was imposing additional sanctions on Russia because of its involvement in the Ukraine conflict and that it had...
DHAKA: Bangladesh police said yesterday they have recovered a skull and what are believed to be other human remains from the ruins of...
MANILA: Al Qaeda linked militants in the southern Philippines have threatened to kill two German hostages they have been holding since April unless...
London taxis clog up Whitehall during a protest against Uber and other ride-sharing services in central London yesterday. LONDON: Hordes of traditional London...
A girl dressed in traditional clothing enjoys the national holiday of Heritage Day in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, yesterday. Heritage Day sees the country...
UNITED NATIONS: US President Barack Obama yesterday slammed Russia’s “aggression” in Ukraine but offered to lift sanctions against Moscow if it threw its...
ABUJA: Nigeria’s military yesterday claimed for the first time that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was dead, as it said troops had killed...
THE HAGUE: Police have arrested more than 1,000 suspects and rescued at least 30 trafficked children in an unprecedented swoop on organised crime...
SYDNEY: Police in Melbourne have shot dead a “known terror suspect” who stabbed two officers, a day after the Islamic State group called...
MONROVIA: The head of a treatment centre in Liberia, the country worst-hit by West Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak, has urged survivors of the...
LONDON: British lawmakers will vote yesterday whether to join US-led airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq after Baghdad requested help, the British...
MANCHESTER: Bill de Blasio, New York’s Democrat mayor, endorsed Britain’s harried opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband yesterday, calling him an extraordinary politician...
WASHINGTON: Washington’s city police force began putting body cameras to the test yesterday, making the US capital the latest to use video technology...
STOCKHOLM: Fugitive US intelligence agent Edward Snowden was jointly awarded a Swedish human rights award yesterday for “revealing the unprecedented extent of state...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with scientists as he arrives at the Indian Space Research Organisation headquarters in Bangalore yesterday. Bangalore: India yesterday...
A man casts a fishing net into the waters of the Yamuna river in New Delhi yesterday.
