QUETTA: Gunmen killed at least eight tribal police in an attack on a local checkpoint yesterday in Pakistan’s restive southwest, officials said. The...
QUETTA: Gunmen killed at least eight tribal police in an attack on a local checkpoint yesterday in Pakistan’s restive southwest, officials said. The...
Thai soldiers scuffle with anti-coup protesters during a demonstration in Bangkok yesterday. RIGHT: A soldier uses water to clean the eyes of a...
TOKYO: Japan and China yesterday accused each other’s air forces of dangerous behaviour over the East China Sea, with Japan saying Chinese aircraft...
KATHMANDU: A Chinese woman became the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest this season, officials said on Saturday, but the...
DENPASAR: Indonesian police have arrested a construction worker suspected of murdering a British woman in her rented villa on the holiday island of...
A Ukrainian man, tattooed with a red and black Ukrainian emblem, examines his ballot during voting in Kiev yesterday. RIGHT: Russia’s Prime Minister...
BOGOTA: Colombians voted for a president yesterday in the tightest election in two decades and one that may determine whether the country continues...
SANTA BARBARA: A 22-year-old man who killed six people before taking his own life in a rampage through a California college town said...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Suspected Islamist gunmen opened fire on a market in a Nigerian village yesterday, killing 20 people in the latest violence against...
WARSAW: General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leader who imposed martial law to crush the Solidarity movement only to hand over power less...
BEIJING: A replica of Egypt’s iconic Sphinx built in northern China will be dismantled after an Egyptian ministry complained about the structure, state...
CANNES: Britain’s Timothy Spall on Saturday claimed the best actor prize at Cannes, nearly 20 years after he had to miss the festival...
ISTANBUL: Turkey yesterday celebrated the Cannes film festival success of Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, with the media hailing him for dedicating his...
LOS ANGELES: The X-Men mutant superheroes smashed into US and Canadian theaters and collected $90.7m in ticket sales through yesterday, keeping monster hit...
Supporters of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement gather in the southern town of Bint Jbeil, to watch a televised address by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the...
Pope Francis walks next to Israeli President Shimon Peres (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his arrival at Ben Gurion airport, outside...
Policemen patrol on horses a day ahead of presidential elections in the old Cairo district of Gamaliya, where former army chief Abdel Fattah...
ISTANBUL: Thousands of people from Turkey’s minority Alevi community yesterday held protests over the deaths of two people during a police crackdown on...
