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COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police blocked hundreds of minority Tamils from attending a protest rally in the capital yesterday in a clampdown condemned by...

HANOI: Pot-bellied, short, or abusive traffic policemen will be barred from working on the streets of Vietnam’s capital and assigned desk jobs instead...

BEIJING: China’s new leaders are planning a system of national residence permits to replace the household registration or ‘hukou’ regime, a government source...

YANGON: Myanmar’s military has been granted a $2.4bn annual budget, just over 12 percent of total government spending in the poverty-stricken country, according...

A man reads the Italian gossip magazine Chi with paparazzi pictures of retired ‘Pope Emeritus’ Benedict XVI on St Peter’s Square at the...

MOSCOW: A dancer at Russia’s Bolshoi ballet who made his name playing villains has confessed to ordering the acid attack that nearly blinded...

PARIS/BAMAKO: French President Francois Hollande said yesterday that a military campaign against Islamist rebels in Mali has killed “terrorist leaders”, without clarifying whether...

NAIROBI: The party of Kenyan presidential frontrunner Uhuru Kenyatta described as suspect yesterday the inclusion of a mountain of spoiled ballots in results...

VIENNA: The UN atomic agency’s board of governors yesterday approved giving Japanese Director General Yukiya Amano a new four-year term without even resorting...

ROME: Italian centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani, under fire for falling short in last week’s election, sought yesterday to rally his party behind...

  PARIS: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has suggested he could return to politics, not out of a desire for power but out of...

Bihari Hindu priests run while holding their ears as they perform a ritual at the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna...

New Delhi: In five separate cases, a woman was allegedly gang-raped in a moving car while four minors were raped here, police said...

NEW DELHI: A teenager went on trial yesterday charged with taking part in the gang rape and murder of a young physiotherapist, a...

NEW DELHI: The scion of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, Rahul Gandhi (pictured) , who is seen as a leading contender to be the...

Lucknow: As opposition leaders demanded that former minister and independent legislator Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya be arrested on suspicion of conspiring...

A soldier serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia walks past Somali women queuing up outside a makeshift pharmacy at a free...

Bahraini youth hold a placard during the funeral of Mahmud Al Jaziri on Al Nabih Saleh Island, south of Manama. Al Jaziri, 20,...