ISLAMABAD: A number of people in Pakistan may hold an uncharitable opinion about Malala Yousafzai’s worldwide efforts to promote girls’ education but the...
ISLAMABAD: A number of people in Pakistan may hold an uncharitable opinion about Malala Yousafzai’s worldwide efforts to promote girls’ education but the...
A man walks with bottled water as people line up outside a supermarket in Lanzhou, Gansu province. BEIJING: A crude oil leak from...
YANGON: Myanmar’s census, which was supposed to end on April 10, was extended yesterday until the end of May, due to “technical and...
PERTH: There was no let-up in the air and sea search for the missing Malaysian airliner off Australia yesterday as Prime Minister Tony...
ZAMBOANGA: The death toll in fighting between Muslim rebels and soldiers in the southern Philippines has risen to 12, officials in the area...
TOKYO: A Japanese cabinet minister visited a controversial war shrine in Tokyo yesterday, in a move that sparked rebukes from South Korea and...
TOKYO: Twelve countries seeking to abolish nuclear weapons yesterday denounced North Korea’s atomic programme at the close of a meeting in Hiroshima, saying...
TOKYO: Three Chinese coastguard ships sailed through disputed waters off Tokyo-controlled islands in the East China Sea yesterday, the Japanese coastguard said. The...
Pro-Russian activists stand outside the regional police headquaters building in Donetsk yesterday. SLAVIANSK: Ukraine appealed to Russia to halt “provocative actions” in its...
A large gum tree rests on a house as a result of Cyclone Ita in Cooktown, Queensland, yesterday. SYDNEY: A tropical cyclone battered...
Bus enthusiasts queue to board as a fleet of vintage buses take to the streets of London for the weekend, yesterday, to mark...
ABERDEEN, Scotland: First Minister Alex Salmond yesterday urged Scots to look beyond party politics and break the 307-year union with England when they...
NEW YORK: Closing out a week of commemorating progress from the Civil Rights Movement, President Barack Obama sharply criticised Republicans for leading efforts...
WASHINGTON: US Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns, who led secret talks with Iran that led to an agreement to curb its nuclear...
NANTERRE: A photographer and two executives at the magazine that exposed French President Francois Hollande’s affair with an actress are to be charged...
BANGUI: African peacekeepers escorted 1,000 minority Muslims fleeing attacks by mainly Christian militias in the Central African Republic to neighbouring Chad, police said...
SOWETO: Fights broke out yesterday in the South African township of Soweto between supporters of the ruling ANC party and activists from the...
RENNES: A decades-old murder case in France took a new twist yesterday when a former Riviera lawyer convicted of killing his casino heiress...
