NEW YORK: Royal Dutch Shell has submitted a new plan for drilling in the Arctic offshore Alaska, more than one year after halting...
NEW YORK: Royal Dutch Shell has submitted a new plan for drilling in the Arctic offshore Alaska, more than one year after halting...
FRANKFURT: Audi, the top-of-the-range car maker belonging to auto giant Volkswagen, said on Friday it is recalling 70,000 cars worldwide owing to potential...
GENEVA: The Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie called Friday for a new bid to bring peace to Syria which she said was destabilising the...
MOSCOW: McDonald's said on Friday that a total of 12 of its branches in Russia had been temporarily closed over the state food...
HANOI: A Philippine man and woman have been sentenced to death in Vietnam for smuggling nearly five kilograms (11 pounds) of cocaine into...
ISLAMABAD: Five peoples of the one family were killed when the members of a rival group opened fire in Northwest Pakistan on Friday,...
KHOBAR: Four companies have expressed interest in bidding for work on unconventional gas in Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil exporter pushes...
SEOUL: South Korea's Samsung Electronics has refuted fresh allegations by a labour protection watchdog that one of its suppliers in China hired child...
JAKARTA: Twitter plans to open an office in Indonesia over the coming months as it seeks to boost revenues in the social-media-addicted nation,...
QUETTA: Gunman opened fire on worshippers at a shrine in southwest Pakistan, killing at least six members of a minority Islamic sect and...
KUALA LUMPUR: Armed pirates commandeered a Thai tanker off Malaysia's east coast and pumped out its cargo of oil, a maritime watchdog said...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines will cut 30 percent of its workforce as part of a restructuring that will cost 6 billion ringgit ($1.90...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks lost 0.23 percent Friday following a weak slate of Japanese data while investors were also spooked by renewed Ukraine-Russia tensions....
TOKYO: Iran's major Asian customers shipped in 29.4 percent more crude in July from a year earlier, with China, Tehran's biggest client, still...
BEIRUT: Three million Syrian refugees will have registered in neighbouring countries as of Friday, an exodus that began in March 2011 and shows...
SHANGHAI: China's Wanda Group, headed by the country's richest man, is joining Internet giants Baidu and Tencent to set up an e-commerce platform...
PESHAWAR: Pakistani troops have recovered a prominent academic held for four years by the Taliban in the country's troubled northwest, officials said on...
The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday attended the inauguration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential...
