NEW YORK: Broadway was to roll out the red carpet yesterday for the 68th annual Tony Awards, theatre’s top honours, in a star-studded...
NEW YORK: Broadway was to roll out the red carpet yesterday for the 68th annual Tony Awards, theatre’s top honours, in a star-studded...
NEW YORK: A truck driver who caused a New Jersey highway collision that critically injured actor and comedian Tracy Morgan and left another...
MADRID: Spain’s Juan Carlos, who announced plans to abdicate last week, presided yesterday over his last military ceremony as king before he cedes...
ROME: An Italian investigation that last week named 35 suspects in a massive graft scheme to cheat the “Moses” flood barrier project in...
ABUJA/MAIDUGURI: An explosion killed at least three people outside an army barracks in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Gombe yesterday, witnesses said, as local...
PARIS: Jean-Marie Le Pen, honorary president of France’s National Front (FN), has plunged the party into hot water over new allegations of anti-Semitism...
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry defended yesterday the swap of five Guantanamo detainees for American Bowe Bergdahl, amid reports the captive...
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton won’t make her intentions known about a possible White House before year’s end, she said in an interview broadcast yesterday....
LONDON: The kidnapping of 200 Nigerian girls and several recent horrific murders of women is expected to raise pressure on the world community...
LONDON: British Home Secretary Theresa May is to be questioned by a committee of MPs about her role in the public feud with...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama is prepping new executive steps to help Americans struggling to pay off their student debt, and throwing his...
Pope Francis kisses Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas as Israeli President Shimon Peres looks on after a joint peace prayer at the Vatican yesterday....
HERZLIYA, Israel: A Palestinian unity deal with the Islamist Hamas movement must be supported, European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso (pictured), told an...
Supporters of the Islamist Ennahda movement wave national and party flags as they mark the 33rd anniversary of the founding of the party...
President-elect Abdel Fattah Al Sisi greeting the Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz at the start of a reception, after his inauguration at...
People help a man on a wheelchair during a clash between Kurdish protesters and Turkish riot policemen in the Bagcilar district of Istanbul,...
BAGHDAD: A car bomb attack and a suicide blast yesterday killed 18 people at a Kurdish political party’s office north of Baghdad and...
BEIRUT: Air traffic controllers at Beirut airport are to hold a two-hour strike tomorrow in protest at the Lebanese parliament’s failure to approve...