Indonesian government wildlife officials from the Natural Resources Conservation Agency confiscate a tiger (sedated in picture), and other endangered animals kept in a...
Indonesian government wildlife officials from the Natural Resources Conservation Agency confiscate a tiger (sedated in picture), and other endangered animals kept in a...
JAKARTA: Indonesia protested strongly to the United States yesterday after a report said Washington had been monitoring phone calls and communication networks from...
BEIJING/TURPAN: China said yesterday that it had caught five suspected Islamist militants after a vehicle burst into flames on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in...
BEIJING: Don’t wear high heels while driving. Make sure you release the hand-brake before setting off. And don’t panic if you suddenly realise...
DHAKA: A government panel was striving yesterday to reach agreement on a wage rise for Bangladesh’s crisis-hit garment industry, amid warnings of fresh...
COLOMBO: An anti-corruption watchdog yesterday criticised the appointment of Sri Lanka’s navy chief as head of the country’s shipping company, calling it a...
KUALA LUMPUR: Mala-ysia insisted yesterday that two Iranian women sentenced to death for drug trafficking must face “due process” despite a warning from...
Protesters clash with stall holders during a demonstration against a lack of housing in central Cape Town, South Africa, yesterday. Hundreds of protesters...
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (left) speaks with President Dilma Rousseff during a ceremony to celebrate the 10th anniversary of...
LONDON: Top executives at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World knew that staff were routinely hacking celebrities’ phones, British prosecutors said yesterday as...
Washington: The director of the National Security Agency conceded yesterday that scaling back some of his agency’s surveillance on foreign leaders might be...
BUENOS AIRES: The head of Argentina’s Supreme Court yesterday denied the government influenced a ruling upholding a controversial law that will force the...
LONDON: Some of the world’s most well-known Islamic scholars are launching a self-regulating professional association that will develop training and professional conduct standards...
WASHINGTON: An American girl who was born with an extremely rare condition that kept her a toddler for life has died at the...
NEW YORK: Having outfoxed him on Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pipped Barack Obama to the title of the world’s most powerful...
ROME: Italy’s Senate will hold an open vote next month on whether to expel Silvio Berlusconi from parliament because of a tax fraud...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) agreed in a second round of coalition talks yesterday to push for...
BRUSSELS: The European Commission yesterday said it is checking gifts and gadgets which host Russia gave to delegations at last month’s G20 summit...