CHETUMAL, Mexico: Mexico yesterday released 14 Cuban migrants rescued at sea by its navy this month, some of whom headed for the United...
CHETUMAL, Mexico: Mexico yesterday released 14 Cuban migrants rescued at sea by its navy this month, some of whom headed for the United...
BRASILIA: President Dilma Rousseff has regained a slight edge in Brazil’s presidential race after weeks of aggressive campaigning against environmentalist Marina Silva, who...
Men ride horses in Kandal province in Cambodia yesterday during an annual buffalo-racing ceremony. The ceremony also marks the end of the Festival...
Policemen guard a checkpoint on a road near a courthouse where ethnic Uighur academic Ilham Tohti’s trial took place in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur...
A sales promotion girl feeds cows as she sells it for the upcoming Eid Al Adha festival at a cow barn in Depok,...
KATHMANDU: Nepal must scrap a 35-day time limit for reporting rapes that prevents victims from seeking justice, Human Rights Watch said yesterday in...
TOKYO: Some 16,000 people rallied yesterday in the Japanese capital against the government’s plan to restart nuclear reactors. It was one of the...
MANILA: The Philippines’ biggest mall operator said yesterday it had withdrawn from its shelves a T-shirt that made fun of rape, following social...
BEIJING: North Korea detained a Chinese fishing boat on September 12 and demanded a fine for its release, Chinese media reported yesterday, apparently...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong students mobbed the city’s leader yesterday in angry scenes as they took their anti-Beijing strike to government headquarters, where...
Outgoing President Hamid Karzai (centre) bows during a meeting of civil workers in Kabul yesterday. KABUL: Outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday blamed...
Pakistani soldiers use a crane to lift a damaged vehicle in Peshawar yesterday. PESHAWAR: A car bomb suicide attack by the Taliban that...
Kabul: At least three militants were killed while they were planting an improvised explosive device (IED) in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan. According...
KARACHI: Gunmen in southern Pakistan shot dead a doctor from Pakistan’s Ahmadi Muslim minority, police and members of the community said yesterday, in...
A father and his daughter look at information about planet Mars on a poster put up at the Nehru Planetarium as a special...
A photograph received from the Delhi Police at the scene of the incident shows a youth being confronted by a white tiger inside...
An Indian Air Force MIG-29 jet takes off during a routine flying sortie at the IAF Air Base at Jamnagar, 350km from Ahmedabad,...
Bangalore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday vowed to abolish the “jungle” of laws that are outdated and holding up the country’s socio-economic development....
