This picture taken on May 6, 2013 shows staff standing on a fishing vessel setting sail for the Spratly Islands, an archipelago disputed...
This picture taken on May 6, 2013 shows staff standing on a fishing vessel setting sail for the Spratly Islands, an archipelago disputed...
MANILA: Manny Pacquiao will return to the ring to fight American Brandon Rios in a 12-round welterweight clash in Macau on Nov. 24,...
A handout photo provided by Redemptoristine Monastery of Legaspi City shows Mayon Volcano spews ash during the phreatic explosion as seen from Legazpi...
TEHRAN: A five-day registration period for candidates in Iran's June 14 presidential election begins on Tuesday, with a string of conservative hopefuls in...
Afghan villagers attend a gathering against Pakistan after recent cross-border clashes, in the Kouchkin area on the outskirts of Kabul, yesterday. JALALABAD: A...
ISLAMABAD: A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan’s militant-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago,...
ISLAMABAD: Mainstream politicians of Pakistan and their family members are silently facing severe character assassination at the hands of the ‘social media warriors’...
LAHORE: Traumatised Christians in a Lahore slum where angry Muslims torched more than 100 homes say Pakistan’s two largest parties offer the only...
Kabul: Four Taliban militants have been killed and four injured in joint operations carried out by Afghan forces and the Nato-led coalition troops...
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (right) reading his oath in front of King Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah during the swearing-in ceremony at the...
BEIJING: China issued veiled criticism of Israel yesterday as its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, began a visit, saying Beijing opposed the use of...
BEIJING: Three Chinese farmers were held for operating an illegal pork business selling meat from pigs that died of disease, state media said...
PHILIPPINES: The Philippines is aiming to speed up convictions in the country’s worst political massacre to ensure justice amid fears the trial could...
JAKARTA: Indonesia yesterday summoned the British ambassador to make a protest after a group supporting independence for the restive Papua region set up...
Russian opposition protesters attend a rally at the Bolotnaya Square in central Moscow, yesterday. The opposition demands the immediate release of all political...
MUNICH, Germany: The surviving member of a German neo-Nazi cell went on trial yesterday for a series of racist murders that scandalised Germany...
BERLIN: German authorities arrested yesterday a 93-year-old alleged former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz on charges of complicity in the mass...
BOSTON: The family of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev faced a quandary yesterday over where to bury his body as cemeteries across...