HAVANA: Fidel Castro said in remarks published yesterday that no Cuban official should have denied US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden entry to the...
HAVANA: Fidel Castro said in remarks published yesterday that no Cuban official should have denied US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden entry to the...
FORT HOOD, Texas: The military jury deciding the fate of US Army Major Nidal Hasan was slated yesterday to begin deliberations on whether...
LONDON: Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton was voted the 2013 winner of the Chatham House Prize by the think-tank yesterday for...
Flames from a wildfire in Ribeira, near La Coruna, in Spain yesterday. LISBON: Wildfires in Portugal that have killed four emergency workers raged...
ABUJA: A Nigerian court yesterday ordered the extradition to the US of a man accused of being a member of the Al Qaeda...
WELLINGTON: A botulism scare that sparked global recalls of Fonterra milk products was a false alarm and there was never any danger to...
PARIS: French prosecutors are investigating alleged US spying under the PRISM surveillance programme following complaints by two human rights groups, sources close to...
ROME: The Italian government moved closer yesterday to scrapping a property tax which had threatened to split the fragile ruling coalition and deepen...
HARARE: A Zimbabwean man has been charged for allegedly using President Robert Mugabe’s election campaign poster as toilet paper, local media reported yesterday....
People gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad’s Al Shaab district yesterday. BAGHDAD: More than a dozen bomb blasts...
KHARTOUM: Rebels in Sudan’s Darfur have freed two Ukrainians and a Sudanese held captive since early August after their helicopter made an emergency...
RIYADH: A Saudi man has died of the coronavirus MERS, bringing the kingdom’s death toll from the Sars-like virus to 42, health authorities...
VIENNA: Iran has installed about 1,008 advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges and is set to test them, a UN nuclear report showed, a development...
TEHRAN: More than 40 percent of Iranians watch television channels beamed into Iran and accessible only by illegal but widespread satellite dishes across...
ADDIS ABABA: Somalia’s central government agreed yesterday to recognise a former Islamist commander as the interim leader of the southern Juba region, a...
Tunis: The freshly banned jihadist group Ansar Al Sharia was planning a series of political assassinations in Tunisia in its effort to establish...
LONDON: Scientists have grown the first mini human brains in a laboratory and say their success could lead to new levels of understanding...
LONDON: Melbourne, Australia was named the world’s most liveable city for the third year in a row, according to a survey of 140...
