MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino said yesterday that work would start in weeks to divide his family’s giant sugar plantation between thousands of...
MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino said yesterday that work would start in weeks to divide his family’s giant sugar plantation between thousands of...
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s coastguard has rescued three Filipino fishermen who spent five days adrift when a storm blew their small boat hundreds of kilometres...
NORTH Cotabato: Rival forces of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Moro National Liberation Front clashed on Sunday at the border of...
DAVAO CITY: Two people died when armed tribesmen attacked a village in the southern Philippines over the weekend, the military said yesterday. The...
BAYOMBONG: Even the fragile islands in the Babuyan Channel along the country’s northernmost coast are not spared from black sand mining. This, as...
DOHA: Investors’ wealth rose by a staggering QR6bn ($1.65bn) on the Qatari bourse yesterday as the market capitalisation jumped to QR530.13bn from QR524.11bn...
Crowds clamour to take pictures as an easel announcing the birth of Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge’s baby boy is placed...
A file photo dated shows Lebanese protesters carrying a replica rocket and poster of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a demonstration organized by...
DOHA: Local distributors of new cars, unruffled by accusations that their prices are high as compared to those in some neighbouring countries, have...
A supporter of deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi is beaten by government and army supporters during clashes that erupted at Tahrir Square and...
DOHA: Noted Islamic scholar Dr Yousuf Al Qaradawi (pictured) has denied that he has been expelled from Qatar, and said some media reports...
ZURICH: UBS’s second-quarter profit beat forecasts even though it agreed to settle a lawsuit with the US housing regulator over the mis-selling of...
NEW YORK: Time Warner announced yesterday that Joseph Ripp will be named chief executive of its publishing arm Time Inc, which is to...
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan: The prime minister of Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Monday led hundreds in a protest march over the recent killing of four demonstrators...
QUETTA, Pakistan: Gunmen opened fire Monday on a taxi in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, gripped by a wave of sectarian bloodshed, killing...
TOKYO: The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Monday admitted for the first time that radioactive groundwater has leaked out to...
DOHA: Qatar Gas Transport Company (QGTC) Nakilat employees and their families celebrated the traditional Qatari children's festival Garangao here last night. Participants enjoyed...
TEHRAN: Iran has finalised a major contract to export gas to neighbouring Iraq, worth 3.7 billion dollars a year, local media on Monday...