DHAKA: Bangladesh police have rounded up hundreds of opposition supporters, authorities said yesterday, as the capital was virtually cut off from the rest...
DHAKA: Bangladesh police have rounded up hundreds of opposition supporters, authorities said yesterday, as the capital was virtually cut off from the rest...
MANILA: More than 160 people have been injured by fireworks in the Philippines as they prepared to welcome the New Year, the government...
MANILA: Former Batangas governor Antonio Leviste has denied owning the ranch in Lipa City where a big-time drug syndicate was busted during a...
MANILA: The number of Filipinos with HIV/AIDS for this year is nearing the 5,000 mark as the Department of Health (DOH) recorded 384...
MANILA: Former military comptroller Carlos Garcia is not going to get away with allegedly stealing $6.9m (P303m) in public funds by only returning...
MANILA: A joint venture of two companies based in North America has bagged the deal to supply 21 UH-1 combat utility helicopters to...
Batangas: Six people died while eight others sustained injuries in two successive vehicular accidents on the same road in Nasugbu town in this...
Passengers stretching their legs on a short excursion off the stranded ship which is trapped in ice at sea off Antarctica. SYDNEY: Passengers...
Tetyana Chornovol, a popular Ukrainian journalist and opposition activist, who together with other opposition activists stormed Kiev’s city hall to prevent illegitimate Kiev...
Greenpeace activist Camila Speziale (centre) is greeted by her sister Abril (left) and parents Paula and Nestor (right) after arriving at Ezeiza International...
Protesters hold signs as the motorcade of US President Barack Obama returns to Obama’s vacation home in Kailua, Hawaii, yesterday.
NEW YORK: A US judge ruled on Friday that the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of telephone calls is lawful, igniting a legal...
DENVER: The world’s first state-licensed marijuana retailers, catering to Colorado’s newly legal recreational market for pot, are stocking their shelves ahead of a...
London: Pets have more legal protection than children, whose parents should be banned from smacking them, according to the Children’s Commissioner for England....
London: British ministers’ plans to withdraw the UK from the European court of human rights (ECHR) are encouraging the government of Ukraine to...
NEW YORK: Hoping to forget the heart-breaks and hard memories of 2013, people lined up at New York’s Times Square yesterday to discard...
Iraqis march during a protest against the arrest of MP Ahmed Al Alwani in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, yesterday. RAMADI, Iraq: Iraqi security...
A man stands outside a faculty building at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University after student supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood stormed it yesterday. CAIRO: A...
