Copies of an autobiography by Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, entitled ‘I am Malala’ in a book store in London yesterday. LONDON: Pakistani schoolgirl...
Copies of an autobiography by Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, entitled ‘I am Malala’ in a book store in London yesterday. LONDON: Pakistani schoolgirl...
ISLAMABAD: Five months on from a successful transition of power after general elections, Pakistan is poised to make a decision of arguably greater...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday deported a Frenchman accused of links to Al Qaeda and suspected of recruiting Islamist fighters, diplomatic sources said. Intelligence officials...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has asked Iran for $2 billion in financing to build its side of a controversial gas pipeline that has drawn threats...
Kabul: A security deal to allow some US troops to stay in Afghanistan to fight Al Qaeda was at risk of collapse yesterday...
US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington at the southeastern port city of Busan. SEOUL: North Korea yesterday warned the United States of...
NUSA DUA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino expressed regret over a Manila hostage crisis that left eight Hong Kong residents dead in 2010, but...
BEIJING: China sacked an official for “extravagant waste” after he spent an estimated 1.6m yuan ($260,000) on a lavish, three-day wedding for his...
MALE: The Maldives Supreme Court on Monday annulled the results of the September 7 presidential election and scheduled a fresh vote by October...
YANGON: Myanmar released 56 political prisoners yesterday in a presidential amnesty mainly for members of ethnic minority armies with which the government is...
DHAKA: A huge fire at a garment factory on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital killed at nine people yesterday, emergency services said,...
A file picture of Peter Higgs (left) and Francois Englert. STOCKHOLM: Britain’s Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize...
US President Barack Obama answers a question during a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington...
MOSCOW: A Russian court yesterday ordered a critic of President Vladimir Putin confined to a psychiatric ward indefinitely over clashes with police at...
QUITO: Ecuador said yesterday that it may turn to the International Court of Justice to resolve an impasse with Britain over Julian Assange,...
STRASBOURG: European lawmakers yesterday approved a long-fought and divisive anti-smoking bill aimed at making cigarettes less attractive to youngsters but threw out a...
Students and members of the Muslim Brotherhood carry a banner with the four-fingered symbol of Rabaa, representing the six-week sit-in in Cairo that...
RIYADH: A Saudi court sentenced a preacher convicted of raping his five-year-old daughter and torturing her to death to eight years in prison...
