RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday beheaded a Pakistani convicted of drug trafficking and one of its own citizens for murder, the interior ministry said....
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday beheaded a Pakistani convicted of drug trafficking and one of its own citizens for murder, the interior ministry said....
benghazi: Pro-government Libyan forces, already reeling from the fall of the capital, are fighting to prevent Islamists from seizing the eastern city of...
KUWAIT CITY: A Kuwaiti court sentenced a Sunni Islamist activist to three years in jail yesterday for posting remarks deemed derogatory to Shias...
People walk past a ‘Better Together’ pro-union campaign shop in Edinburgh yesterday, ahead of Scotland’s independence referendum. EDINBURGH/LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron...
Zephyr Teachout, a democratic primary challenger to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, greets voters outside a voting station in New York City yesterday. ...
MONROVIA: Liberia is bracing for an upsurge in Ebola cases, following a grim World Health Organization assessment yesterday that the worst is yet...
Berlin: Lufthansa cancelled 110 Munich flights today, affecting thousands of passengers after pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit called for a third strike at the...
kiev: Five Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in the past four days, the military said yesterday, underscoring the strains in a ceasefire between...
Residents and rescue workers gather at the site of a mosque, after its roof collapsed, in Lahore yesterday. LAHORE: At least nine worshippers...
Afghan supporters commemorate the 2001 assassination of Tajik resistance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul yesterday. Massoud was a political and military leader...
KARACHI: Taliban militants attacked a Karachi naval dockyard in a weekend raid which left a Pakistani officer and two insurgents dead, officials said...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan says he will not be the first to blink in his ‘battle of nerves’ with Prime Minister...
KABUL: Outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday pressured rival candidates to succeed him to end delays to a promised power-sharing deal after a...
ISLAMABAD: The federal government of Pakistan, which had promised unconditional support to people displaced by the ongoing military operation in North Waziristan, has...
FROM LEFT: Civil disobedience movement founders Chan Kin-man, Benny Tai and Reverend Chu Yiu-ming having their heads shaved as part of calls for...
Cambodians pray during the first day of the Pchum Ben festival at a pagoda in Kandal province yesterday. The festival consists of 15...
HANOI: Six people died and six more were left in a critical condition from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a karaoke bar in...
MANILA: Rogue policemen who staged an audacious robbery on one of the Philippines’ busiest roads have been exposed by a photo of their...
