BEIJING: China described Vietnam's claim to disputed South China Sea islands as "ridiculous" on Monday, as tension rises over competing claims of sovereignty...
BEIJING: China described Vietnam's claim to disputed South China Sea islands as "ridiculous" on Monday, as tension rises over competing claims of sovereignty...
LUCKNOW, India: A passenger train collided with a stationary goods train in India's most populous state on Monday, killing at least 40 people...
LAHORE, Pakistan: Gunmen shot dead a doctor from the minority Ahmadi community in central Pakistan on Monday, officials said, the latest attack on...
DUBAI: Construction Products Holding Co (CPC), a unit of private Saudi Arabian construction giant Saudi Binladin Group, said on Monday it had bought...
CAIRO/SUEZ: Egyptians voted on Monday in a presidential election expected to sweep former army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi into office, with supporters brushing...
SEOUL: LG Electronics Inc. snatched the world's No. 3 spot in earnings from mobile phone sales in the first quarter of 2014, the...
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi Joint Operations Command announced that ten insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) killed in Fallujah....
BEIJING: China plans to take more than 5 million ageing vehicles off its roads this year in a bid to improve air quality,...
DUBAI: Dubai's Emaar Properties said on Monday it will list up to 25 percent of its malls business on the Dubai Financial Market...
CAIRO: A homemade bomb exploded outside a polling station in the Egyptian city of El-Mahalla El-Kubra on Monday, state TV reported, on the...
Firefighters rush to the inter-city bus terminal in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, 26 May 2014. EPA SEOUL: A fire at a bus...
Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Monday by Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency...
New Delhi: Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony at 6pm today will be one of the biggest such events held at Rashtrapati Bhavan...
Sweet shop employees with confectionery bearing the portrait of prime minister-elect Narendra Modi, in Kolkata yesterday. The sweets, which are selling for `120...
Fishermen, released from a prison in Karachi, waiting for their return to India yesterday. Some 151 Indian fishermen held for violating Pakistani territorial...
Hyderabad: Barely 10 days after the election results, the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) yesterday received a jolt with two of its MPs crossing...
New Delhi: Prominent five-star hotels in the capital where the visiting heads of government coming here to attend Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony will...
US President Barack Obama speaks to troops deployed in Afghanistan during an unannounced visit to Bagram Air Base in Kabul yesterday. BAGRAM AIR...
