Firefighters inspect a bus set on fire by protesters in Dhaka yesterday. DHAKA: At least 18 people suffered burns after a suspected Bangladesh...
Firefighters inspect a bus set on fire by protesters in Dhaka yesterday. DHAKA: At least 18 people suffered burns after a suspected Bangladesh...
BANGKOK: Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra easily won a no-confidence vote in parliament yesterday but failed to pacify anti-government protesters who rejected...
MANILA: The Philippines expressed concern yesterday that China may seek control of air space over contested areas of the South China Sea, after...
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Maoist party, which swept the country’s first post-war polls in 2008, was routed in a second election earlier this month and...
An aerial view of the world’s biggest refugee complex of Dadaab — home to over 400,000 mainly Somali refugees — in northeastern Kenya....
A combination photograph of German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacting during a session of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, yesterday.
OTTAWA: Canada allowed America’s National Security Agency to spy on G20 talks in Toronto in 2010 and at the G8 summit days earlier,...
LONDON: Britain signalled it would force tobacco companies to scrap branded cigarette packaging yesterday in an attempt to reduce the number of children...
MOSCOW: A Russian court yesterday granted bail to the last Greenpeace activist still in custody over a protest against offshore oil drilling in...
VILNIUS: Ukraine was under pressure to choose sides yesterday as an EU summit designed to draw six ex-Soviet states into the Western fold...
ROME: Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta must ask parliament to confirm its backing of his government after centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia...
STOCKHOLM: A new and more aggressive strain of HIV discovered in West Africa causes significantly faster progression to Aids, researchers at Sweden’s Lund...
One of six Israeli Arab citizens sentenced in July 2013 to two years in jail for lynching a far-right soldier after he went...
A section of 740 students from Simad University during their graduation ceremony in Mogadishu yesterday. The number of graduates was the highest since...
Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar speaks as Unicef Regional Director for South Asia Dr Karin Hulshof looks on during a function announcing Tendulkar as...
New Delhi: With some opinion polls showing her trailing behind other contenders, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit is set to go interactive on...
Women work in a cauliflower field in Kolkata yesterday. There are a number of vegetable farms in the eastern fringes of the city.
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh escaped devastation as the cyclonic storm Lehar in the Bay of Bengal weakened before crossing its coast yesterday. According to...
