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Passengers recall nightmare cruise trip 31 Jan 2014 - 06:23 am

BAYONNE, New Jersey: Passengers staggered off a Royal Caribbean ship reeking of vomit and diarrhoea at its home port here after their cruise...

Summit to pull Central Africa from ‘abyss’ 31 Jan 2014 - 06:22 am

French soldiers of the Sangaris operation patrol yesterday in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, where unrest continues despite efforts of African...

Feeding birds 31 Jan 2014 - 06:21 am

A couple of titmouses eat seeds from winter bird feeders made of plastic bottles in Kosciuszko Park in Katowice, Poland, yesterday. Local residents...

Call for action on data breach disclosure 31 Jan 2014 - 06:20 am

WASHINGTON: US spy agency chiefs called on Congress to draft stricter requirements for how retailers and other private businesses should inform government agencies...

UK wields far more influence in EU than thought: Group 31 Jan 2014 - 06:19 am

LONDON: Britain enjoys far greater influence inside the European Union than its largely eurosceptic public believes, a pro-EU campaign group said yesterday, warning...

Ireland PM apologises in schoolgirl abuse case 31 Jan 2014 - 06:19 am

DUBLIN: Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny apologised yesterday to a woman who suffered sexual abuse by a teacher while at a Catholic-run school...

Bieber charged with assault 31 Jan 2014 - 06:19 am

TORONTO: Canadian police charged pop star Justin Bieber with the December assault of a limousine driver, shortly after the 19-year-old had turned himself...

UK wields far more influence in EU than thought: Group 31 Jan 2014 - 06:18 am

LONDON: Britain enjoys far greater influence inside the European Union than its largely eurosceptic public believes, a pro-EU campaign group said yesterday, warning...

Ukraine leader on sick leave; slams oppn 31 Jan 2014 - 06:18 am

KIEV: President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday savaged the opposition for inflaming tensions in Ukraine’s crisis after he unexpectedly went on sick leave with no...

Italian court re-convicts Knox for murder 31 Jan 2014 - 06:18 am

FLORENCE: A court in Florence yesterday sentenced American student Amanda Knox to 28 years and six months in prison for the murder of...

Europe seeks better Cuba ties 31 Jan 2014 - 06:17 am

BRUSSELS/MADRID: The European Union will agree next month to deepen relations with Cuba in its most significant overture to the communist nation since...

Head of Spain newspaper dismissed 31 Jan 2014 - 06:17 am

MADRID: Spain’s leading centre-right newspaper El Mundo said yesterday it was dismissing its director Pedro J. Ramirez, under whose leadership the daily broke...

Coalition partner quits Danish govt 31 Jan 2014 - 06:17 am

COPENHAGEN: One of the three members of Denmark’s leftist coalition quit the government yesterday over the controversial sale of a stake in state-controlled...

Lebanon: Man admits transporting bombs 31 Jan 2014 - 06:08 am

A woman walks past sandbags piled up in front of a jewellery shop in a stronghold of Shia group Hezbollah in the southern...

Iraq: Suicide attack on ministry kills 24 31 Jan 2014 - 06:07 am

A tribesman fighting alongside Iraqi police forces patrols a street in the city of Ramadi, west of the capital Baghdad, during a military...

Israeli minister slams Abbas 31 Jan 2014 - 06:06 am

Hardline Israeli Jews attend a mass at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s old city yesterday against the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. JERUSALEM: Israel’s...

Call to probe S Sudan atrocities 31 Jan 2014 - 06:05 am

JUBA: Human Rights Watch yesterday demanded a full investigation into atrocities committed in war-torn South Sudan, reporting that in one town alone scores...

Turkey removes around 800 more police officers 31 Jan 2014 - 06:05 am

ANKARA: The Turkish government yesterday fired or reassigned some 800 police officers as it pressed on with a purge of the country’s police...