Protesters wave their weapons as they guard a barricade from provocateurs during a protest in Kiev. KIEV: Anti-government protesters in Ukraine readied for...
Protesters wave their weapons as they guard a barricade from provocateurs during a protest in Kiev. KIEV: Anti-government protesters in Ukraine readied for...
A woman walks in the front of burned stores in PK 5 district in Bangui yesterday. France’s 1,600 troops and the African Union’s...
WASHINGTON: Government requests for Twitter user information are on the rise, the messaging service said as it released figures while pressing for more...
LONDON: Britain’s immigration minister resigned yesterday after it emerged he had employed a cleaner who was in the country illegally, Prime Minister David...
EAST LANSING, Michigan: In a large barn smelling faintly of horses, US President Barack Obama signed the $956bn farm bill into law on...
PALMA DE MALLORCA: Spain’s Princess Cristina was questioned by a judge yesterday in a corruption case that has deepened public anger over graft...
SARAJEVO: Bosnia braced yesterday for fresh protests amid warnings the country could face a “tsunami” of popular anger over its dire economy after...
Pedestrians walking in the snow are reflected in a kaleidoscope-like mirror in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. TOKYO: Heavy snow and severe weather struck Tokyo...
Firefighters attempt to put out a fire in a slum at Modhubagh in Dhaka yesterday. A child was burned alive and hundreds of...
TACLOBAN: The Philippines said “Thank you” on billboards around the world yesterday in gratitude for the massive outpouring of international help after a...
WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday stressed its commitment to the defence of Japan and stability in the Asia-Pacific region against a backdrop...
Beijing: China dismissed a US official’s warning against possible Chinese expansion in the skies over the South China Sea, calling the remarks "irresponsible.”...
Beijing: A Chinese fishing boat caught fire off the Japanese coast, leaving six people dead and two injured (one badly), an official from...
UN Special Representative to Afghanistan Jan Kubis holds up a copy of a report of civilian casualties during a press conference in Kabul...
An Afghan immigrant living in Athens holds candles and pictures of children who died during an incident near the Greek-Turkish border, during a...
ISLAMABAD: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) Director General Irina Bokova and the Pakistan’s Minister of State for Education, Training and...
ISLAMABAD: Extremist threats have hampered the murder trial of Pakistan’s former minority affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti, who was gunned down in Islamabad in...
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Minister of Defence Production Rana Tanveer Hussain met with an Iraqi delegation chaired by the Iraqi Air Force Commander Staff Pilot...
