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Apple tailors two new iPhones for world market 11 Sep 2013 - 08:57 am

Apple chief executive Tim Cook praises the new iPhone 5S as the most refined model the company has ever introduced in Cupertino, California,...

Two Koreas agree to re-open Kaesong industrial zone 11 Sep 2013 - 08:16 am

File photo taken on November 24, 2008 shows South Korean vehicles heading to the North Korean joint industrial estate of Kaesong at a...

Shell's $13bn China refinery project shelved 11 Sep 2013 - 08:15 am

BEIJING: An 8.3 billion pound or $13 billion project to build a refinery and petrochemical plant in eastern China involving Royal Dutch Shell...

Malaysia's Najib to announce steps to help ethnic Malays 11 Sep 2013 - 08:14 am

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will announce measures this week to boost the economic role of majority ethnic Malays, official media...

Glencore Xstrata halts $7bn Australian coal mine 11 Sep 2013 - 08:12 am

SYDNEY: Newly merged mining giant Glencore Xstrata said on Wednesday it had put its proposed US$7 billion Wandoan open-cut energy coal project in...

Four guilty of Delhi gang rape 11 Sep 2013 - 04:27 am

A P Singh (centre), defence lawyer for one of the four accused found guilty of the fatal gang-rape of a young woman on...

Last words of the victim 11 Sep 2013 - 04:25 am

New Delhi: Her cries for help went unheeded as the six people, including a juvenile, tortured her for an hour, took turns to...

CPM moves governor over leader’s killing 11 Sep 2013 - 04:24 am

Kolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist yesterday demanded the intervention of West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan to nab the culprits responsible for...

Kerala planning to destroy 8,000kg ivory 11 Sep 2013 - 04:24 am

Kochi: The chief wildlife warden of Kerala has sought permission from the state government to destroy around 8,000 kg of elephant tusks in...

Muzaffarnagar calm; police arrests 975 11 Sep 2013 - 04:24 am

Lucknow: No untoward incident was reported from Muzaffarnagar yesterday as 975 people were arrested for their “direct or indirect” role in the communal...

GJM suspends agitation for talks 11 Sep 2013 - 04:24 am

Darjeeling: The GJM-led Gorkhaland Joint Action Committee (GJAC) yesterday decided to put on hold its separatist movement in West Bengal’s Darjeeling hills till...

CBI frames charges against Srinivasan 11 Sep 2013 - 04:23 am

New Delhi/Hyderabad: The CBI yesterday charge-sheeted self-exiled Indian cricket board president Narayanaswamy Srinivasan in a corruption case involving YSR Congress party chief Y...

Khurshid may meet top Pakistan foreign official 11 Sep 2013 - 04:23 am

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid is likely to meet Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s foreign policy adviser, in Kyrgyzstan...

School bombs kill 2 soldiers in Thailand 11 Sep 2013 - 04:22 am

Security personnel inspect the site of the bomb attack at a school in Yala province, south of Bangkok, yesterday. BANGKOK: A twin bomb...

Lanka poll: Tamils want army in barracks 11 Sep 2013 - 04:22 am

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party yesterday demanded troops be confined to barracks after accusing them of campaigning for the ruling party at...

Former China rail official stands trial in bribery case 11 Sep 2013 - 04:22 am

BEIJING: A senior official from China’s disgraced railways ministry went on trial yesterday for bribery, state-run media said, the latest to be prosecuted...

Two Koreas hold talks on Kaesong reopening 11 Sep 2013 - 04:21 am

SEOUL: North and South Korea held a second round of talks yesterday on reopening their Kaesong joint industrial zone — five months after...

Thailand rubber farmers accept government deal 11 Sep 2013 - 04:21 am

BANGKOK: A network of Thai rubber farmers said yesterday that it had accepted a government subsidy offer aimed at ending recent mass protests...