TOKYO: Elderly people caught shoplifting in Japan’s capital city have outnumbered teenagers for the first time since records began, a report said yesterday....
TOKYO: Elderly people caught shoplifting in Japan’s capital city have outnumbered teenagers for the first time since records began, a report said yesterday....
DHAKA: Top 70 top retailers promised to open their Bangladesh factories to safety inspections within nine months as part of a pact in...
BEIJING: A 2.55-metre Chinese man who is among the world’s tallest living people has been hospitalised for a hip replacement, reports said yesterday....
An aerial view of the wreckage of the crude oil train in Lac Megantic yesterday. LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec: Canadian police yesterday struggled to find...
An interior view of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco yesterday. SAN FRANCISCO/SEOUL: The pilot of the Asiana plane that crashed at San...
LONDON: The Nigerian-based Islamist extremist group Boko Haram is to be banned in Britain under anti-terror laws, the British interior ministry announced yesterday....
WASHINGTON: Ten people were killed when an air taxi aeroplane crashed on Sunday at the airport in the US city of Soldotna, in...
LONDON: Britain’s new royal baby will be third in line to the throne but a legal wrangle in the Commonwealth is holding up...
WASHINGTON: The wife of US Secretary of State John Kerry remained in hospital yesterday for tests, but her condition appeared to be improving...
FORT MEADE: The US soldier who admitted to leaking a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks will ask a military judge to dismiss...
A cow chasing revellers jumps into the sea during the “Bous a la Mar” festival in the eastern Spanish coastal town of Denia...
BERLIN: Angela Merkel’s government said yesterday that its cooperation with American intelligence was fully regulated by strict legal guidelines after a magazine reported...
Pope Francis looks at a laptop on a boat during his visit to Lampedusa Island, southern Italy, yesterday. The Pope celebrated mass on...
PARIS: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy made his first political appearance since losing power, staging an appeal to hundreds of conservative lawmakers yesterday...
LAGOS: Islamist extremists have massacred dozens of students in recent weeks in Nigeria’s northeast, opening a new phase in their insurgency despite a...
JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela’s grandson yesterday denounced efforts to remove him as chief of the anti-apartheid icon’s clan following a bitter family feud, as...
GROSSETO: The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship which crashed and sank off Italy last year will go on trial today, charged...
TORNADIZOS DE AVILA: A bus carrying more than 30 passengers careened off a central Spanish highway and ploughed into a metal safety barrier...
