Bangladesh: Bangladeshi opposition parties have called a two-day nationwide shutdown to protest what they describe as the “mass killing” of Islamists in a...
Bangladesh: Bangladeshi opposition parties have called a two-day nationwide shutdown to protest what they describe as the “mass killing” of Islamists in a...
MANILA: Filipinos in Sabah were harassed into voting for the Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, the sultanate...
Part of a gas tanker truck lies in between two houses after its explosion in San Pedro Xalostoc, on the outskirts of Mexico...
The house where three women, who disappeared as teens about a decade ago, were found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday. CLEVELAND: Three women...
LONDON: Britain should leave the European Union because Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to claw back powers from Brussels is doomed, former finance...
LONDON: Britain’s weak economy has taken its toll on the nation’s poshest greengrocer with Prince Charles forced to close his organic vegetable store,...
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers voiced outrage yesterday that the officer in charge of the Air Force anti-sexual assault office was himself arrested on sexual...
Belarus honour guards take part in a rehearsal for the annual Victory Day parade in central Minsk, yesterday. Belarus celebrates the 1945 Soviet...
DUBAI: A leader of Al Qaeda in North Africa has urged Muslims worldwide to attack French interests in retaliation for France’s military intervention...
CAPE TOWN: The leaders of Africa’s two biggest economies, South Africa and Nigeria, pledged closer ties yesterday in what was hailed as a...
MOSCOW: A Russian prisoner charged with double murder yesterday escaped from one of Moscow’s most formidable jails by breaking a hole in his...
PARIS: A company that specialises in “Made in France” underwear has raised nearly ¤19,000 ($25,000) from enthusiastic investors banking on its next titillating...
STOCKHOLM: ABBA fever hit Stockholm yesterday when a museum devoted to the Swedish pop legends opened — filling a void in the hearts...
LONDON: Director J J Abrams is hoping to persuade mainstream film audiences to boldly go where they have never gone before and embrace...
STOCKHOLM: Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have won Sweden’s 2013 Polar Music Prize, organisers said yesterday. “A West African...
H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser during Hamad bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) Convocation ceremony at the Qatar National Convention Centre yesterday. RIGHT: H...
Qatar Airways Country Manager UAE, Fadi Hijazin, receiving the award in Dubai. DOHA/DUBAI: Qatar Airways has been honoured with the world’s ‘Best Cabin...
Dr Yousef Mohammad Al Horr (left), and Dr Mohammed Al Mulla signing the agreement. DOHA: The Gulf Organization for Research and Development (Gord),...
