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Defence minister Asif may lose portfolio 15 Apr 2014 - 08:16 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is considering taking away additional charge of the Ministry of Defence from Khawaja Muhammad Asif, it was...

Punjab working to launch online arms database 15 Apr 2014 - 08:16 am

LAHORE: The Punjab province government is working on a project to evolve a computerised arms licence information management system in the province to...

Google unveils email scanning practices in new terms of service 15 Apr 2014 - 07:50 am

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc. updated its terms of service on Monday, informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails are automatically analyzed by...

Royals in the garden 15 Apr 2014 - 06:42 am

Separatist unrest spreads in Ukraine 15 Apr 2014 - 06:37 am

Pro-Russia protesters wearing gas masks storm a regional police building as one prepares a petrol bomb in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka...

Nigerian bus station bombing kills 71 15 Apr 2014 - 06:34 am

Vehicles burn after an attack in Abuja yesterday. ABUJA: A morning rush hour bomb killed at least 71 people at a Nigerian bus...

Global military spending drops, led by US: Sipri 15 Apr 2014 - 06:33 am

STOCKHOLM: World military expenditure fell in 2013 as the United States and other Western countries cut back, but spending in emerging economies grew,...

Mass DNA tests at French school 15 Apr 2014 - 06:31 am

BORDEAUX: French police took DNA samples from hundreds of male pupils and staff yesterday in the hope the mass test could help them...

Pistorius accused of fake tears 15 Apr 2014 - 06:31 am

PRETORIA: The prosecution accused Oscar Pistorius of feigning emotion to dodge tough questions about the death of his girlfriend, as his second week...

British radical’s trial begins in New York 15 Apr 2014 - 06:29 am

NEW YORK: Jury selection began yesterday in the New York trial of British hate preacher Abu Hamza, who faces life behind bars if...

Affair with Brooks was wrong, says Coulson 15 Apr 2014 - 06:29 am

LONDON: David Cameron’s former media chief Andy Coulson admitted yesterday that an affair he had with Rebekah Brooks when the two worked for...

Kansas killing suspect has hate-filled history 15 Apr 2014 - 06:27 am

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas: The suspect in the Passover Eve killings of three people at two Jewish community facilities in a Kansas City suburb...

Civil war anniversary 15 Apr 2014 - 06:26 am

A partial view of Beirut’s suburbs is seen from the Holiday Inn hotel in the Lebanese capital yesterday, as the nation marks 39...

Student killed in Cairo university clashes 15 Apr 2014 - 06:25 am

Plainclothes policemen arrest an Egyptian youth following two explosions at Cairo University in the capital yesterday. CAIRO: A student was shot dead yesterday...

Three Al Manar TV scribes killed 15 Apr 2014 - 06:21 am

A general view of the destroyed Al Safir Hotel in the ancient Christian town of Maalula, northeast of Damascus, after government forces took...

German airline cancels flights to Sharm Al Sheikh 15 Apr 2014 - 06:19 am

FRANKFURT: Germany’s second-biggest airline, Air Berlin, yesterday said it has cancelled flights this month to Egypt’s Sharm Al Sheikh resort on the Red...

Egypt to raise power prices before election: Minister 15 Apr 2014 - 06:18 am

WASHINGTON: Egypt plans to boost electricity prices for the richest 20 percent of its citizens before the presidential elections at the end of...

Syria troops retake Christian town 15 Apr 2014 - 06:17 am

MAALULA, Syria: Syrian troops retook the ancient Christian town of Maalula from rebels yesterday, a day after President Bashar Al Assad said the...