TAIPEI: Taiwan’s former president Chen Shui-bian has tried to commit suicide in the prison where he is serving a 20-year sentence for corruption,...
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s former president Chen Shui-bian has tried to commit suicide in the prison where he is serving a 20-year sentence for corruption,...
MANILA: Philippine aviation authorities shut down one of the country’s busiest airports yesterday after a passenger jet overshot the runway when landing during...
KUALA LUMPUR: Anwar Ibrahim acknowledged yesterday that his Malaysian opposition would have to bite the bullet and work with a ruling coalition he...
BANGKOK: Thai authorities have found the dead bodies of nine people believed to be illegal migrants from Myanmar whose boats sank in a...
Members of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), the City of London’s Territorial Army regiment, fire a 62-gun salute at the Tower of London...
Activist Cornel West (left) and Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin talk during a break on the first day of the United States vs....
UNITED NATIONS: More than 60 countries yesterday signed a landmark conventional arms trade treaty, but the United States held back from joining the...
LONDON: The British government vowed yesterday to create a new law to regulate lobbying, after four politicians were filmed by undercover reporters offering...
WASHINGTON: In an unprecedented move, the United States yesterday posted up to $23m in rewards to help track down five leaders of militant...
LONDON: One of the men accused of hacking to death a British soldier in London attended court for the first time yesterday, while...
A church stands partially submerged in the flood waters from the swollen Danube river in Marbach, some 90km west of Vienna, the capital...
BERLIN: A simmering election-year scandal around German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s defence minister over a botched drone deal threatens to boil over this week...
Islamabad: At least 17 people, including seven children, were killed and several others injured after heavy rains and wind storms hit many cities...
MOSCOW: Russia began a second bid to convict the suspected killers of prominent Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya at a pre-trial hearing yesterday, but...
BRUSSELS: The European Parliament will examine in the first week of July whether to lift the immunity of far-right French MEP Marine Le...
SARAJEVO: Bosnia and Croatia yesterday reached an accord to cooperate in prosecuting war crimes, aimed at bringing to court dozens of suspects who...
SAN FRANCISCO: McAfee Labs yesterday reported a surge early this year in malicious software aimed at stealing passwords at social networks such as...
bangkok: Thailand is asking citizens of all ages to drink at least one glass of cow’s milk a day in an effort to...
