LONDON: Anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, the former archbishop of Cape Town, was yesterday awarded the $1.7m Templeton Prize for his lifelong work to...
LONDON: Anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, the former archbishop of Cape Town, was yesterday awarded the $1.7m Templeton Prize for his lifelong work to...
DOHA: Eritrea's President, HE Isaias Afwerki, left Doha this morning concluding a several-days official visit to Qatar. He was seen off upon departure...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: A service truck crashed into a passenger lounge of Jeddah international airport in Saudi Arabia, killing two Iranian pilgrims and...
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (L) and Iran's top nuclear negotiator SaeedJalili (R) pose for a photo while meeting on the sidelines...
TOKYO: The system keeping spent atomic fuel cool at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant stopped on Friday, its operator said, the latest glitch...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks jumped Friday as investors embraced sweeping new Bank of Japan stimulus measures that sent the yen plunging, spelling good news...
MANILA: Thousands of US and Filipino troops began annual military exercises on Friday which the Philippines said were vital to building its defence...
SHANGHAI: A sixth person has died of the H7N9 strain of bird flu in China, state media said Friday, after authorities carried out...
Indian rescue workers and local residents look for survivors at the site of building collapse in Mumbra, on the outskirts of Mumbai on...
SEOUL: South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Friday it expected a sharp increase in first-quarter operating profit to 8.7 trillion won ($7.7 billion), up...
MEDAN, Indonesia: Fighting between Buddhist and Muslim asylum seekers from Myanmar at a detention centre on Indonesia's Sumatra island left eight people dead...
Rahul Gandhi, a lawmaker of the ruling Congress party, speaks during the 2013 annual general meeting and national conference of Confederation of Indian...
RAIPUR: A villager axed to death four women and five young girls yesterday while apparently mentally disturbed after his wife left him, police...
Kolkata: Students largely stayed away from schools and colleges while traffic came to a virtual standstill in many cities of West Bengal yesterday...
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court yesterday set aside its earlier order allowing telecoms operator Bharti Airtel to continue providing 3G intra-circle roaming...
Chandigarh: Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who had ordered a scrutiny of land deals of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert...
Jaipur: Over 20 people, including a dozen policemen, were injured in the Rajasthan capital following a violent clash between two communities yesterday, officials...
Srinagar: Eight schoolchildren were killed and 12 others injured when their bus rolled down into a gorge near here yesterday. A senior police...