THALA, Tunisia: Angry residents of a town in northern Tunisia hurled stones at the car of visiting Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi yesterday, a...
THALA, Tunisia: Angry residents of a town in northern Tunisia hurled stones at the car of visiting Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi yesterday, a...
ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ruled out yesterday general amnesty for Kurdish rebels amid renewed peace talks between the country’s secret...
A city worker paints over a sign reading “Sharia Square” in Gao, yesterday. Radical Islamists painted many signs proclaiming Shariah law during their...
VIENNA: Austria’s far-right lost power yesterday in its late leader Joerg Haider’s stronghold of Carinthia after a drubbing in a state election, five...
A group of Cossacks waits outside during a performance of the play “Moscow Trials” in the Sakharov centre in Moscow, yesterday. Moscow police...
MOSCOW: Russian authorities say six teenagers are trapped in an avalanche in the region of Tuva in southern Siberia. The Emergency Situations Ministry...
MAIDUGURI: The leader of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram rejected peace talks with the government in a video yesterday, distancing himself from a...
COTONOU: Benin said yesterday that authorities have thwarted an attempt to oust President Thomas Boni Yayi and install a military regime in the...
Demolition crews and Hillsborough County Fire Department watch as the house, where Jeff Bush was swallowed by a sinkhole, is demolished in Seffner,...
Hundreds of opposition supporters participate in a march in Caracas, Venezuela, yesterday, demanding the government tell the truth on the health of President...
WASHINGTON: Four months after his bitter election defeat, a reflective Mitt Romney said it “kills” him not to be president and admitted mistakes...
LONDON: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth went into hospital here yesterday with symptoms of gastroenteritis, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said. The 86-year-old monarch first developed...
CAPE CANAVERAL: A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule overcame a potentially mission-ending technical problem to make a belated but welcome arrival at the International...
LONDON: Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned last week as Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric, yesterday admitted that his sexual conduct had “fallen...
Activists from Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami set fire to a pile of cotton material on a street during the first day of a two-day strike...
Filipino policemen secure the hometown of Rajah Mudah Abimuddin Kiram, in Simunul island, yesterday. KUALA LUMPUR: Gunmen have killed five policemen in Malaysia’s...
Sukhumbhand Paribatra raises his arms with members of the Democrats party during a press conference in Bangkok, yesterday. BANGKOK: Bangkok’s governor swept back...
SEOUL: An US soldier was shot and injured by South Korean police after a dramatic car chase through the capital Seoul early yesterday,...