SYDNEY: Homelessness in Australia has surged 17 percent since 2006 mainly due to a spike in migrant numbers, though fewer people are sleeping...
SYDNEY: Homelessness in Australia has surged 17 percent since 2006 mainly due to a spike in migrant numbers, though fewer people are sleeping...
LJUBLJANA: Former Slovenian premier Janez Jansa was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of giving and receiving backhanders...
ISLAMABAD: The first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest says she wants her achievement to stand as an inspiration to all the women...
LONDON: Britain is to restart the transfer of detainees captured by its forces in Afghanistan back to the Afghan justice system later this...
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft on Wednesday said it teamed with the FBI to disrupt armies of hacked computers used to commit more than a...
SINGAPORE: Over 130 Singaporean bloggers blacked out their homepages Thursday to protest new licencing rules for news websites they say will muzzle freedom...
Garment workers carry a colleague injured by rubber bullets fired by riot police during clashes in Dhaka yesterday. DHAKA: Hundreds of workers of...
KUALA LUMPUR: Ethnic violence in Myanmar between Muslims and Buddhists appeared to have spilled over into Malaysia, police said yesterday, with four killings...
TOKYO: The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said it had found another leak of contaminated water yesterday, piling pressure on the...
MANILA: Tourism ministers and officials from Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines inked yesterday a deal expressing their intent to facilitate easier travel...
KUALA LUMPUR: The US will oppose moves by any country to seize control of disputed areas in the South China Sea by force,...
BANGKOK: Thailand said yesterday that it had refused entry to Cambodia’s opposition leader-in-exile because of concerns he would criticise Prime Minister Hun Sen’s...
SEOUL: A South Korean government probe into nuclear safety has uncovered cables with forged safety certificates at two power plants under construction, a...
DOHA: Qatar Railways (Qatar Rail) announced awarding of four ‘design and build’ (D&B) contracts worth a whopping QR30bn ($8.24bn) for Phase-1 of the...
DOHA: About 130 paediatrics staff from Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) took part in an orientation workshop as part of the requirements for accreditation...
FROM LEFT: Mariliza Malek of My Aspiration, Malaysia Ambassador Ahmad Jazri bin Mohammed Johar, Director of German Academic and Career Center at University...
A Qatar Airways Airbus A320 aircraft deployed on the Doha-Paris route. Paris: Qatar Airways has stepped up frequency on the Paris-Doha route to...
FROM LEFT: The Executive Director of Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Dr Adnan Abu Dayya, Director of Transportation and Infrastructure Planning of the Ministry...