An uncle (left) and grandparents of Lee Rigby weep after laying a wreath and reading messages on floral tributes for the soldier near...
An uncle (left) and grandparents of Lee Rigby weep after laying a wreath and reading messages on floral tributes for the soldier near...
Girls throw flower petals before the Blessed Sacrament during a Corpus Christi procession in Gora Kalwaria, near Warsaw, yesterday. The feast is liturgically...
PARIS/BERLIN: President Francois Hollande pledged yesterday to carry out long overdue reforms of France’s pension system and labour markets but said it was...
TOKYO/BRUSSELS: Unapproved genetically modified wheat found growing in the United States is threatening US exports of the world’s biggest traded food commodity, with...
MOSCOW: A top economist has fled Russia after being interrogated over the case of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, amid fears that he...
OSLO: Big companies should report their impact on the environment in addition to their earnings under a UN plan to boost economic growth...
THE HAGUE: A UN tribunal yesterday acquitted late Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic’s intelligence chief and his deputy of running Bosnian death squads during...
KANO: Nigeria’s security services yesterday said they had discovered a home in the northern city of Kano where Lebanese nationals had stored weapons...
Visitors look at Ai Weiwei’s installation Bang at the German pavilion during the press preview of the 55th Venice art biennale in Venice...
NEW YORK: A dream-like painting of children releasing kites by Brazil’s Candido Portinari sold for $1.4m at Christie’s Latin American art sale and...
OSLO: Ole Oeiseth doesn’t like leaving his house without a gun. “A polar bear can come anytime and from anywhere; the hungry young...
PARIS: People who undergo weekend non-emergency surgery in English public hospitals have an 82 percent higher chance of dying within a month than...
Muslim families arrive at a temporary shelter at the monastery in Lashio, Northern Shan State, Myanmar, yesterday. YANGON: Myanmar yesterday reached a tentative...
BEIJING: China’s Defence Ministry dismissed as ridiculous yesterday a US report that Chinese hackers have gained access to designs of more than two...
PHNOM PENH: The Khmer Rouge’s former number two admitted for the first time yesterday he shared responsibility for the actions of a regime...
SEOUL: Human rights monitors and North Korean defector groups voiced anger and concern yesterday over the forced repatriation to Pyongyang of nine young...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police have been cooperating with authorities overseas against a global online currency operator being probed in the US on allegations...
