DHAKA: Bangladesh will hold a general election on January 5, the Election Commission said yesterday, in an announcement likely to anger the opposition...
DHAKA: Bangladesh will hold a general election on January 5, the Election Commission said yesterday, in an announcement likely to anger the opposition...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s military yesterday announced a ban on commemorations of the island’s defeated Tamil Tiger rebels following reports that sections of the...
Ukrainians carry an EU flag during their mass protest in Kiev, yesterday. About 100,000 people gathered in Kiev to protest against the government....
French teenager Marie-Oceane Bourguignon (centre) reacts during a press conference with her parents Jean-Jacques Bourguignon (left) and Yveline in Bordeaux yesterday. PARIS: One...
Presidential candidate for the Honduran general elections, Juan Orlando Hernandez (centre-right) of the National Party of Honduras, celebrates along with his wife Ana...
WASHINGTON: A growing number of Americans doubt President Barack Obama’s ability to manage the nation, according to a CNN/ORC poll released yesterday that...
ROME: Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi yesterday requested a review of his tax fraud trial ahead of a vote this week that will likely force...
BERLIN: German coalition talks go into crunch time this week as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives haggle with their defeated centre-left rivals over a...
BAKU: A court in Azerbaijan yesterday sentenced three people to life in prison and another 26 to lengthy jail terms on charges of...
LONDON: A couple who allegedly held three women as “slaves” in a London house for 30 years were prominent Maoist activists in the...
ASUNCION: Mexico’s former president warned countries considering legalisation of marijuana that the real threat comes from criminal groups taking over national institutions, in...
LONDON: Rebekah Brooks, then boss of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper group, arranged to meet Andy Coulson just days before he resigned as Prime...
LONDON: Women in England and Wales will be able to check police records to see if their partner has a history of domestic...
Women show their voter identity cards to cast their votes at a polling station in Bhopal yesterday. Bhopal: A record 32 million people...
Forestry officials stand near the carcass of a one-horned rhinoceros which was killed and de-horned by poachers at the Kaziranga National Park, some...
Defendant Rajesh Talwar (left) heads to court in Ghaziabad, some 30km east of New Delhi, yesterday.
Social activists take part in a rally on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Kolkata yesterday. They pledged to...
New Delhi: There is “no question” of arbitration in the Rs37.27bn deal with AgustaWestland for VVIP choppers, Defence Minister A K Antony said...
