MANILA: A former Philippine national police chief surrendered to a court Wednesday after he was charged with corruption involving millions of dollars. Avelino...
MANILA: A former Philippine national police chief surrendered to a court Wednesday after he was charged with corruption involving millions of dollars. Avelino...
SEOUL: South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries is close to winning an order worth about $1.4 billion to build 10 huge container ships for...
MOSCOW: A British Airways Boeing 747 flying from London to Beijing on Wednesday made a successful emergency landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia...
GENEVA: Any U.S. military action taken in response to apparent chemical weapons attacks in Syria would need to be approved by the U.N....
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...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's top court on Wednesday dropped contempt charges against cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, accepting his explanation that he never intended to bring senior...
MOSCOW: Russia evacuated 116 Russian citizens and nationals of other ex-Soviet states on two planes belonging to the emergencies ministry which flew them...
DUBAI: Passenger traffic at Dubai's main airport climbed 6.1 percent in July from a year earlier, despite a seasonal slowdown in local traffic,...
LASHKAR GAH: A suicide bomber targeting foreign forces in southern Afghanistan killed at least four Afghans and wounded 15 on Wednesday, police and...
BANGKOK: Flash floods and heavy monsoon rains have battered Laos, killing at least 20 people, washing away roads and damaging crops, a U.N....
SANAA: Yemen is doing all that it can to secure the release of an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Sanaa last month, said Foreign...
ABU DHABI: The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, said on Wednesday it had appointed Suresh...
TOKYO: The world's nuclear watchdog has urged Japan to explain more clearly what is happening at Fukushima and avoid sending "confusing messages" about...
SEOUL: Two pilots were killed Wednesday when a South Korean air force jet trainer crashed near the southwestern city of Gwangju, the defence...
BAGHDAD: Coordinated car bombs ripped through mostly Shiite neighbourhoods in the Baghdad area during rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 35 people,...
TAIPEI: Two leading Taiwanese electronics firms that assemble products for Apple have received orders to make the highly anticipated "iWatch", an analyst and...
ABU DHABI: A consortium of National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) and France's Technip have won a 6.2 billion dirham or $1.6 billion contract...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks lost 1.51 percent Wednesday with risk aversion growing as US forces readied for possible military action against Syria. The key...
