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Jaswant Singh’s condition critical 11 Aug 2014 - 12:11 am

New Delhi: Former cabinet minister and BJP leader Jaswant Singh was on life support systems and under observation by medical experts in a...

Vigil for quake victims 10 Aug 2014 - 11:52 pm

Local residents and volunteers attending a candle-light vigil for victims of the earthquake in Ludian county in Zhaotong, southwest China’s Yunnan province.

AMERICAN BUSINESS CYCLE CONGRESS TAX LAW PROFIT DEBT MONSTERS 10 Aug 2014 - 10:30 pm

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War re-enactment 10 Aug 2014 - 10:11 pm

Members of the Association of Military Remembrance, also known as The Khaki Chums, are inspected by the drill instructor as they re-enact the...

Rainy day in London 10 Aug 2014 - 10:10 pm

Pedestrians protect themselves from rain in central London yesterday. England and Wales were hit with heavy rain and high winds.

Shot teen had assaulted officer: Police 10 Aug 2014 - 10:10 pm

Missouri: The shooting death of a black teenager that sparked anger in a St Louis community was started by a fight between the...

Victims’ issues come to the fore in Colombia peace talks 10 Aug 2014 - 10:09 pm

BOGOTA: Farmer Elver Montano has a long tale of pain and uprooting to tell as Colombia’s peace talks turns to the 5.3 million...

Britons trust Wikipedia ‘more than the news’ 10 Aug 2014 - 10:09 pm

LONDON: British people trust Wikipedia more than the mainstream media, the information site’s founder Jimmy Wales said yesterday, at the close of a...

Cameron will lose election on ethnic minority vote: Warsi 10 Aug 2014 - 10:09 pm

LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives will lose next year’s election because they have neglected ethnic minority voters, Britain’s first Muslim cabinet minister,...

Hawaii voters back governor’s challenger 10 Aug 2014 - 10:08 pm

HONOLULU: Incumbent Governor Neil Abercrombie conceded defeat yesterday as Hawaii voters overwhelmingly backed his challenger in the state’s Democratic primary, even as local...

West Africa counting cost of curbing Ebola 10 Aug 2014 - 10:08 pm

Players of the ‘’L’Etoile de Guinee’’ football team pose with a sign reading ‘’Stop to the Ebola epidemic’’ prior to a football tournament...

Ukraine forces encircle rebel-held city 10 Aug 2014 - 10:07 pm

Ukrainian soldiers drive on a tank to take up position during fighting against militants, close to Ilovaysk town, near Donetsk, yesterday. KIEV/DONETSK: Artillery...

German coalition bickers over arms exports 10 Aug 2014 - 10:06 pm

BERLIN: German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is raising hackles among conservatives in the coalition government with plans to tighten rules on arms exports,...

‘Good will’ exists to resolve Armenia-Azerbaijan crisis: Putin 10 Aug 2014 - 10:06 pm

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said he believed there is sufficient good will to resolve the Karabakh conflict as he hosted yesterday the...

Clinical trial to start soon on Ebola vaccine 10 Aug 2014 - 10:05 pm

LONDON: A clinical trial of an experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus is set to start shortly, according to British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline,...

Four civilians killed in Kabul suicide attack 10 Aug 2014 - 09:14 pm

An Afghan policeman looks at the wreckage of an armoured vehicle of Nato-led International Security Assistance force at the site of a suicide...

Pakistani cleric charged with murder over policeman’s death 10 Aug 2014 - 09:14 pm

A supporter of Muhammad Tahirul Qadri displays an image of his leader, at a gathering observing “Martyr’s Day” in Karachi yesterday. LAHORE: Pakistani...

Govt fails to meet court deadline on civic elections 10 Aug 2014 - 09:13 pm

ISLAMABAD: The federal and provincial governments have failed to meet the apex court’s five-month deadline — granted to finalise legislation for empowering the...