Lebanese Army soldiers secure a street they have closed off, where anti-Hezbollah activists had earlier held a protest, in Beirut BEIRUT: Lebanese troops...
Lebanese Army soldiers secure a street they have closed off, where anti-Hezbollah activists had earlier held a protest, in Beirut BEIRUT: Lebanese troops...
Visitors with ducks as thousands crowd the waterfront on the last day to see a giant 16.5 metre-tall duck (back, left), conceived by...
MOSCOW: The Bolshoi theatre has announced it is terminating the contract of one of its biggest stars, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, who infuriated the management...
SAN FRANCISCO: Sony and Microsoft will be battling for the spotlight at the E3 videogame show with new consoles designed to put them...
LONDON: Britain said eavesdropping by its Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) security agency was legal and no threat to privacy but would not confirm...
WASHINGTON: A US intelligence agency requested a criminal probe yesterday into the leak of highly classified information about secret surveillance programmes run by...
WASHINGTON: Republican Senator John McCain said yesterday that there is increasing public support for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and...
LONDON: Scottish author Iain Banks has died age 59, two months after he revealed he had late-stage cancer and was unlikely to survive...
SANTA MONICA: The gunman who killed four people in a shooting rampage in Santa Monica before he was slain by police at a...
LONDON: A fire at an Islamic boarding school here on Saturday night is being treated as suspicious, the police said, just days after...
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A man inspects a sandbag wall next to the river Elbe in Schoenebeck, eastern Germany, yesterday. MAGDEBURG/GROSS ROSENBURG: Thousands of people left their...
Messages for Nelson Mandela outside his Johannesburg home yesterday. SOWETO: South Africans prayed for Nelson Mandela’s recovery yesterday as the 94-year-old former president...
GENEVA: The Swiss voted overwhelmingly yesterday in favour of a government move to tighten the country’s asylum law amid a spike in refugees,...
ROME: Italians voted in the second round of municipal polls yesterday, with Rome’s right-wing mayor Gianni Alemanno facing a stiff challenge from his...
UNITED NATIONS: Armed groups in Mali continue to pose a serious security threat to the entire region while African troops forming the core...
Supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party light fire crackers and display pictures of Narendra Modi while celebrating outside a BJP office in New...
Agartala: Transporting food grain for the mountainous northeastern states via Bangladesh has begun, and the first consignment is expected to reach Tripura within...
