Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the papamobile during his inauguration mass in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, 19 March 2013. EPA/Ciro...
Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the papamobile during his inauguration mass in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, 19 March 2013. EPA/Ciro...
MANILA: The Philippines' highest court suspended on Tuesday a controversial birth control law that had met fierce opposition from the powerful Catholic Church. ...
BEIJING: Beijing lashed out Tuesday at a US court that ordered two Chinese pharmaceutical companies to pay $162 million for price-fixing in the...
DUBAI: Abu Dhabi government-owned Al Hilal Bank plans to issue a debut Islamic bond worth $500 million in the third quarter of this...
A file picture dated 06 March 2013 shows Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, Japan....
Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in the AL-Mashtal district in Baghdad . BAGHDAD: Car bombs and a suicide...
James Seevakumaran is pictured in this handout photo courtesy of The University of Central Florida Police Department. Reuters MIAMI: US police said Monday...
A man at a Citibank branch at the US bank Citigroup world headquarters in New York in this November 17, 2008 file photo....
SYDNEY: The head of Blackberry has taken a swipe at Apple, saying in an interview the iPhone's operating system was outdated, while promising...
DUBAI: Contractor Drake & Scull International has been awarded contracts worth 369 million dirhams ($100.46 million) for the construction of three projects in...
MEXICO CITY: Mexico and Brazil have agreed to eliminate short-term visa requirements for each other's citizens, Mexico's foreign ministry said in a statement...
MUMBAI: A bus crash left 32 people dead and another 13 injured after the vehicle careered off a bridge into a dry river...
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner shows a gift while standing next to Pope Francis during a private meeting at the Vatican, yesterday....
MOSCOW: Russia said yesterday it saw “no concession” in the US decision to abandon the final phase of its missile shield for Europe...
KANO: Five explosions at a bus park in northern Nigeria’s main city of Kano killed at least 25 people yesterday in an area...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has eschewed tradition and chosen a silver Fisherman’s Ring rather than a gold one — and one designed decades...
BANGUI: Rebels in the Central African Republic have detained their five ministers in the government and threatened to break a January ceasefire unless...
Founder of the Hacked Off campaign Brian Cathcart at a press conference in London, yesterday. LONDON: Britain’s main political parties agreed yesterday to...
