DOHA: About one-and-a-half months after implementing the government ban on issuing driver’s licences to certain segments of expatriate workers, driving schools say that...
DOHA: About one-and-a-half months after implementing the government ban on issuing driver’s licences to certain segments of expatriate workers, driving schools say that...
Youths mount their cars on stones in the Saudi city of Duba. This new art-form trending in Saudi Arabia is called ‘Tahjir’ or...
A young boy takes shelter under a table as he experiences an intensity 7 earthquake in an earthquake-simulation vehicle at the venue of...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka yesterday hit back at UN rights chief Navi Pillay for “transgressing” her mandate, a day after she accused President Mahinda...
TOKYO: Radiation near a tank holding highly contaminated water at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has spiked 18-fold, the plant’s operator said yesterday,...
JAKARTA: A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia yesterday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, sending people running from their homes...
PHNOM PENH: The Camb-odian government yesterday warned foreigners to stay away from opposition protests against a hotly disputed election as thousands of riot...
BANGKOK: A Thai protester was shot dead and another injured at a rally in the country’s south yesterday, officials said, following demonstrations calling...
BEIJING: China is investigating the head of its state assets regulator, a former top energy executive, for “serious discipline violations”, the government said...
Filipina Janet Lim-Napoles inside a detention cell at Fort Santo Domingo in the town of Sta Rosa, Laguna province, Philippines, yesterday. MANILA: Sharp...
MANILA: Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas II is set to defend today the P9.5bn budget of the Department of the Interior...
MANILA: President Aquino has appointed retired Maj Gen Natalio Ecarma III (pictured), a former commander of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the...
MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will use excess ballot papers from the May elections for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls...
MANILA: Leaders of legitimate organisations are worried over the government’s pronouncements of reforms to regulate foundations and non-government organisations (NGOs) in the aftermath...
A man sprays water on a car in an attempt to save it from a forest fire burning close to a marina on...
JOHANNESBURG: Anti-apartheid leader and former South African President Nelson Mandela returned to his home yesterday where he will continue to receive intensive care...
MADRID: Most Spaniards back Madrid’s new tough stance against Gibraltar and nearly one in two would favour closing Spanish airspace to flights to...
MADRID: Spanish police have dismantled a large indoor marijuana-growing operation with the arrest of six Dutch nationals, including a couple and their son,...
