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Saudi Kayan restarts plant shut for maintenance 27 Apr 2013 - 11:12 am

RIYADH: Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Co (Saudi Kayan) has brought its ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol plant back into operation after scheduled maintenance and will soon...

Philippine police hunt mayor's ambushers 27 Apr 2013 - 11:07 am

ILIGAN, Philippines: Philippine police said Saturday they have identified and are hunting eight gunmen who killed 13 people in an ambush on a...

Bosses arrested over Bangladesh building disaster 27 Apr 2013 - 10:12 am

A Bangladeshi Army soldier directs an excavator as volunteers and rescue workers conduct rescue operations after an eight-storey building collapsed in Savar, on...

HH the Emir congratulates Presidents of S. Africa, Togo and Sierra Leone 27 Apr 2013 - 09:56 am

DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has sent cables of congratulations to Presidents of the Republic of South Africa,...

Google Glass for consumers will 'take a while': Schmidt 27 Apr 2013 - 09:21 am

Star blogger and context expert Robert Scoble from the U.S. presents Google Glasses at the trade fair NEXT Berlin 2013 in Berlin, Germany,...

US citizen to face trial in N. Korea: KCNA 27 Apr 2013 - 09:08 am

SEOUL: A US citizen will go on trial at North Korea's Supreme Court on charges including trying to overthrow the communist regime, the...

Rio's iconic Maracana reopens for key World Cup test 27 Apr 2013 - 08:56 am

RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio's mythical Maracana Stadium reopens Saturday for an exhibition match that will serve as a first test ahead of the...

Zuckerberg paid more than $2bn at Facebook in 2012 27 Apr 2013 - 08:34 am

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg scored more than $2 billion worth of stock and $503,000 in base pay last year...

Google boss sees autocrats' pushback against internet 27 Apr 2013 - 08:22 am

WASHINGTON: Life in authoritarian states is likely to get tougher before it gets better as their citizens gain more access to the Internet,...

4.5m overseas Pakistanis seek vote rights 27 Apr 2013 - 03:02 am

KARACHI: The general elections on May 11 has got every Pakistani excited. But the 4.5 million voters who live outside the country and...

45 dead as Afghan bus hits tanker 27 Apr 2013 - 03:00 am

KANDAHAR: A passenger bus in Afghanistan collided yesterday with a wrecked fuel tanker left on a road after a Taliban insurgent attack, killing...

Frenchman has no regrets after hostage ordeal 27 Apr 2013 - 02:59 am

KABUL: Charles Ballard (pictured) left a career in finance to do aid work in Afghanistan. Back home in France after being held hostage...

Islamabad court remands Musharraf over Bhutto killing 27 Apr 2013 - 02:59 am

RAWALPINDI: A Pakistani court yesterday slapped a three-day house arrest order on former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the murder of Benazir Bhutto...

World Bank flayed for funding failed projects 27 Apr 2013 - 02:59 am

ISLAMABAD: Amid increasing footprints of international donors, Planning Commission chief Dr Nadeemul Haque has criticised the World Bank for throwing money behind failed...

Bomb blast near ANP office in Karachi kills 6 27 Apr 2013 - 02:58 am

KARACHI: A car bomb exploded outside a secular party’s election office here late yesterday killing six people, officials said, the latest violence ahead...

Anger on streets in Dhaka; 72 rescued 27 Apr 2013 - 02:56 am

Firefighters try to control a blaze after workers set fire in a spinning mill in Gazipur. DHAKA: Textile workers vented their anger yesterday,...

78,000 Bhutan refugees move to West from Nepal 27 Apr 2013 - 02:56 am

KATHMANDU: Some 78,000 Bhutanese refugees have moved to the West from camps in Nepal where they have been living for two decades after...

Japan executes two death-row gangsters 27 Apr 2013 - 02:55 am

TOKYO: Japan yesterday hanged two death-row inmates, in the first executions since a trio of convicted killers died in the gallows two months...