BEIJING: At least 15 people were killed and five others injured after a fire broke out in a market in south China's Shenzhen...
BEIJING: At least 15 people were killed and five others injured after a fire broke out in a market in south China's Shenzhen...
Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Wednesday by Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency...
Troops of the multinational African force FOMAC take control of a street in the Combattant neighbourhood of Bangui. BANGUI: Crowds attacked a mosque,...
KABUL: A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops near the international airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, a military...
File photo taken on October 1, 2013 an Indian pedestrian talks on his mobile phone outside a Nokia store in New Delhi. MUMBAI:...
SINGAPORE: The storage arm of Asia's top refiner, Sinopec Corp, plans to double its storage capacity outside China by 2020, a senior company...
US President Barack Obama addresses the crowd during a memorial service for Nelson Mandela at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg yesterday. SOWETO: US President...
KIEV: President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday held talks with his three predecessors and the EU foreign policy chief to seek a way out of...
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s military yesterday to step up its presence in the Arctic after Canada signalled it planned to claim...
MONTREAL: Canada has spied abroad on behalf of the US National Security Agency, according to a classified document cited by public broadcaster CBC...
LONDON: More than 500 authors, including J M Coetzee and Gunter Grass, have signed a petition to the United Nations published yesterday which...
WASHINGTON: Fresh winter snow moved into the US mid-Atlantic region yesterday, shutting schools and offices in the nation’s capital and elsewhere as the...
The Ruler of Kuwait H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah receives the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani...
LONDON: British state-rescued lender Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was dealt a fresh blow on Tuesday when its finance chief announced he was...
SYDNEY: General Motors Co said it would end vehicle and engine manufacturing in Australia by the end of 2017, dealing a severe blow...
Smoke rises while residents run after shelling from forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad on a fuel vendor in Al Shaar area...
Shimon Peres & Hassan Rowhani TEHRAN: Iran yesterday dismissed an offer from Israel’s president to meet his Iranian counterpart as a propaganda ploy...
Fishing boats are being removed from the ancient port of Sidon on the southern coast of Lebanon, 40km south of the capital Beirut,...