DUBAI: Abu Dhabi property firms Aldar Properties PJSC and Sorouh Real Estate said the two companies expect to close their state-backed merger by...
DUBAI: Abu Dhabi property firms Aldar Properties PJSC and Sorouh Real Estate said the two companies expect to close their state-backed merger by...
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Wednesday added Twitter-style hashtags to help the more than one billion members of the social network tune into topics...
Former top civil servant Peter Lim (L) arrives with his lawyer at the Subordinate courts in Singapore on June 13, 2013. AFP photo/ROSLAN...
SEOUL: South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries said Thursday it had won a $3 billion order to build a giant offshore oil storage...
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo on Wednesday announced it has bought a startup that makes picture-taking applications for iPhones to enhance its Flickr photo service....
A painting of former South African president Nelson Mandela, which was donated to him, at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg...
Ship’s cook Okene, 29, was on board the Jascon-4 tugboat when it capsized on May 26 due to heavy Atlantic ocean swells around...
HAVANA: Australian Chloe McCardel (pictured) yesterday became the latest swimmer to attempt to cross from Cuba to the US state of Florida, during...
HONG KONG: Former US spy Edward Snowden yesterday vowed to fight any bid to extradite him from Hong Kong and promised “explosive” new...
LONDON: Britain is to regulate electronic cigarettes as non-prescription medicines from 2016 in an attempt to improve quality, though the country’s drugs watchdog...
WASHINGTON: A 10-year-old American girl whose dire need for a lung transplant catapulted her into the political spotlight has learned a donor has...
OUAGADOUGOU: Mediators working to hammer out a ceasefire agreement between Mali’s government and Tuareg rebels before July elections flew to Bamako yesterday to...
Women supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili hold posters of him during an election campaign rally in Tehran, yesterday. DUBAI: Iran’s supreme...
BEIRUT: Sunni insurgents have killed about 60 Shias in a rebel-held eastern Syrian town where President Bashar Al Assad’s agents had been trying...
UNITED NATIONS: A spillover of violence from Syria’s civil war into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights is jeopardising a decades old ceasefire between Israel...
ADDIS ABABA: The African Union urged Egypt and Ethiopia yesterday to come together for talks to solve a bitter dispute over the sharing...
ISTANBUL: Demonstrators retreated from an Istanbul protest square yesterday after a night of running battles with riot police as Turkish Prime Minister Recep...
Rome: Mass anti-government protests are “the first serious test” for Turkey in its bid to join the European Union, Italian Foreign Minister Emma...
