Muslims arrive in Bishwa Ijtema in Tongi on the outskirts of Dhaka to join a congregation which starts this afternoon and ends on...
Muslims arrive in Bishwa Ijtema in Tongi on the outskirts of Dhaka to join a congregation which starts this afternoon and ends on...
SINGAPORE: A Singapore-based British wealth manager’s Facebook posts deriding public transport commuters as poor are “deeply offensive, wrong, and unacceptable”, the city-state’s foreign...
MANILA: Leftist rebel group New People’s Army (NPA) yesterday claimed responsibility for the attack on a warehouse of Japanese multinational firm Sumifru Corp...
HONG KONG: An Indonesian maid has welcomed the arrest of her former Hong Kong employer accused of torturing her, saying she was willing...
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said Japan and China should avoid repeating the past mistakes of Britain and Germany, which fought...
BANGKOK: Thailand’s Constitutional Court yesterday deferred a ruling on whether a general election scheduled for February 2 can be postponed, as protesters who...
YANGON: Security forces in western Myanmar massacred at least 40 Rohingya Muslims last week, including women and children, a human rights group said...
KIEV: Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich called for an emergency session of parliament to end political crisis and violent unrest, in a sign he...
A tiny rabbit is seen in the right ear of a 9-metre bronze statue of the late former South African President Nelson Mandela...
MONTREAL: A massive fire at a Quebec residence for the elderly has killed at least three people, with 30 more missing, authorities said...
Britain’s Prince Charles meets a patient during a visit to King’s College Hospital, in south London, yesterday.
WASHINGTON: The bulk telephone data collection by a US intelligence agency is a massive violation of civil liberties and should be shut down,...
MADRID: A 40-year-old Swiss mother killed her sick, 10-month-old baby boy by cutting his throat while she was under arrest in Spain, police...
WASHINGTON: The US military eased restrictions on religious tattoos, hairstyles or apparel that troops can display while in uniform, as long as it...
LONDON: More than 1,500 military personnel including hundreds of Gurkhas are to lose their jobs in a final round of redundancies aimed at...
Civilians gather as they inspect a site hit by shelling by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, in the Jazmati area...
Members of parliament from the ruling Justice and Development Party (right) and the main opposition Republican People’s Party scuffle during a debate at...
Egyptians carry flag-draped caskets of policemen killed yesterday, during their funerals in Beni Sueif, about 115km south of Cairo. CAIRO: Egypt has seen...
