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MANILA: Despite losing to Croatia on the first day of the World Cup in Spain, the basketball-crazy Philippines on Sunday still celebrated its...

LONDON: Rona Fairhead, former boss of the Financial Times Group, will become the new chairman of the BBC Trust, the body which oversees...

KYOTO, Japan: India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi toured the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto on Sunday, the second day of a visit...

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia: Saudi International Petrochemical Co (Sipchem) said on Sunday that an affiliate had suspended butanediol production for scheduled maintenance to improve...

ISLAMABAD: More than 400 people were wounded in clashes between police and protesters in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, hospital officials said Sunday, as a...

SYDNEY: Australia said Sunday it would help the United States in an international effort to transport weapons to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State...

MANILA: Dozens of Filipino UN peacekeepers performed the "greatest escape" from besieging Syrian rebels, slipping away under the cover of night after rebels...

KABUL: At least 53 Taliban militants were killed and 14 others were injured during military operations by Afghan national security forces in the...

BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces backed by Shi'ite militias on Sunday broke the two-month siege of Amerli by Islamic State militants and entered the...

DUBAI: Dubai's Marka has appointed Nick Peel as chief executive, the retailing and restaurants company said in a statement on Sunday. Peel joins...

DOHA: Propelled by telecommunications and transport shares, Qatar Exchange index gained 153.50 points (1.14 percent) when trading closed Sunday at 13,596.66 points. The...

DAMASCUS: Syria on Sunday criticised France's President Francois Hollande for his refusal to cooperate with Damascus against jihadists from the extremist Islamic State...

DUBAI: A Bahraini appeals court on Sunday upheld a controversial 10-year-jail term against a photojournalist convicted over his presence at a 2012 attack...

JERUSALEM: Israel's cabinet convened on Sunday to debate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's call for swingeing budget cuts to pay for the 50-day military...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan called on his supporters on Sunday to take to the streets across the country after at least...

ADEN: Suspected Al-Qaeda militants killed five Yemeni soldiers in two separate attacks Sunday, including a suicide car bombing, in the second day of...

DOHA: The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra will travel to the Royal Albert Hall in London next month to perform at the BBC Proms. The...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin called Sunday for immediate talks on the future of war-torn east Ukraine, saying for the first time that...