DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has sent a cable of congratulations to the President of Tunisia Mohamed Moncef...
DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has sent a cable of congratulations to the President of Tunisia Mohamed Moncef...
SHANGHAI: German auto giant Volkswagen will recall 384,181 vehicles in China over gearbox defects, it said Wednesday after state television criticised it over...
DUBAI: Dubai-owned port operator DP World on Wednesday reported a 21 percent rise in 2012 profit, boosted by monetisation of non-core assets and...
TOLUCA, Mexico: Mexican soldiers and police killed 10 suspected criminals in a shootout in a mountainous region outside Mexico City on Tuesday, with...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. government has dropped its push for cigarette labels to carry images of diseased lungs and other graphic health warnings, and...
RIO DE JANEIRO: At least 27 people were killed by landslides caused by heavy rains in a mountainous area of the Brazilian sate...
TOKYO: Technicians have restored power to all cooling systems at the reactors of Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, the operating company said Wednesday...
In this photograph taken on March 14, 2013 a Surabaya Zoo veterinarian holds a baby Komodo dragon in Surabaya city capital of East...
SAN FRANCISCO: The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported that Yahoo! may take a controlling interest in France-based online video-sharing website Dailymotion. Yahoo!...
Italian cardinal Angelo Sodano (right) makes Pope Francis wear the Fisherman’s Ring during his inaugural mass in Vatican City, yesterday. VATICAN CITY: Pope...
Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai on way to school in Birmingham, yesterday. LONDON: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai returned to school yesterday for the first...
Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, speaks to children in the offices of Child Bereavement, in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire, yesterday.
HARARE: Almost 95 percent of Zimbabweans voted in favour of a new constitution that would trim President Robert Mugabe’s powers and pave the...
LAS VEGAS: An explosion at a US Army munitions depot in western Nevada killed seven Marines from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and injured...
CALABAR, Nigeria: A wooden boat carrying 166 people from southeastern Nigeria capsized about 40 nautical miles off the coast, with only two known...
MARSEILLE: A female dentist in the centre of Marseille was shot dead yesterday by a 71-year-old patient who was himself killed during the...
Facade of the hotel, where the British tourist jumped from to escape a sexual assault, in Agra. New Delhi: The Lok Sabha yesterday...
Rescue officials and bystanders gather around the wreckage of the bus after it fell from the bridge in Khed, some 350km south of...
