YANGON: Myanmar’s president will make the first state visit to the US by a leader of the former pariah nation in almost half...
YANGON: Myanmar’s president will make the first state visit to the US by a leader of the former pariah nation in almost half...
A tear runs down the face of US President Barack Obama as he talks about the attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi,...
A surveillance video grab of one of the suspects in the Mother’s Day shooting that left 19 wounded on Sunday in New Orleans,...
SOFIA: The centre-right GERB has emerged from Bulgaria’s election as the largest party but it is short of coalition options, and any new...
LONDON: Two paralysed British men who want to die but cannot kill themselves went to court yesterday seeking protection from prosecution for those...
PARIS: Carlos the Jackal, once considered one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, returned to court in Paris yesterday to appeal his conviction...
BERLIN: Angela Merkel has dismissed claims in a new book that she was more actively committed to East Germany’s communist regime than she...
NAIROBI: Kenyan police have launched a manhunt for 40 mentally ill patients who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in the capital Nairobi, officials...
LONDON: Britain’s disgraced former energy minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife were both freed from prison yesterday after serving a quarter of their...
Kuwaiti MPs Safaa Al Hashem (right), and Yussef Al Zalzalah (left) with an unidentified man after filing a request to grill Kuwaiti first...
RIYADH: Panic gripped Saudis in the country’s east yesterday, where most cases of the deadly coronavirus have been detected, witnesses said, as the...
CAIRO: Egypt’s parliament approved a new income tax law yesterday that will increase levies paid by the wealthy and by companies but reduce...
KHARTOUM: Two Darfur rebel chiefs who signed an accord with the Sudanese government have been killed in an insurgent attack near the strife-torn...
The skyline of Cairo as a sandstorm sweeps through the Egyptian capital yesterday.
ADEN: Armed Yemeni tribesmen yesterday kidnapped a Swiss citizen working for the Red Cross in the southern province of Abyan, a Yemeni security...
LONDON: Booksellers are predicting that “Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown’s latest title “Inferno” will become the biggest-selling book of the year, ahead...
ROME: Beetles, caterpillars and wasps could supplement diets around the world as an environmentally friendly food source if only Western consumers could get...
FRANKFURT: The German theatre director whose controversial staging of a Richard Wagner opera to a Nazi-era theme was cancelled after the premiere hit...
