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KARACHI: A member of Pakistan’s transgender community is to contest upcoming general elections on a ticket of equal rights, saying the community has...

ISLAMABAD: Despite mounting US pressure, President Asif Ali Zardari has decided to travel to Tehran this week to finalise a multi-billion dollar gas...

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman has been awarded the Smith College Medal for her achievements and dedication to the rights...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s largest and most resource-rich province is also the most impoverished. Almost half the population of Baluchistan qualifies for financial support under...

Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (centre) of People’s Justice Party along with Pan Malaysian Islamic Party President, Hadi Awang, (right) and Democratic Action...

South Korea’s new President Park Geun-Hye, in a traditional Hanbok dress, speaks at a plaza on her way to the presidential Blue House  ...

YANGON: Myanmar’s reformist leader Thein Sein embarked on his first visit to Europe as President yesterday, government officials said, as the country looks...

MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino signed a landmark law yesterday compensating human rights victims of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, 27 years after a bloodless...

BEIJING: The mouthpiece of China’s ruling Communist Party yesterday lamented a generation who had never tasted “hard work” after the son of a...

KATHMANDU: A Nepalese climber was confirmed yesterday as the first woman to scale Mount Everest twice in a single season, Guinness World Records...

    TOKYO: A 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit Japan yesterday, setting buildings in the capital swaying but causing no risk of a tsunami, seismologists said. National...

  BEIJING: Two more Tibetans have died after setting themselves ablaze in China, Western rights groups said yesterday, the latest in a string of...

Journalists wait outside Pretoria’s Brooklyn police station where Oscar Pistorius was supposed to appear, yesterday. However, reports said that reporting to police was...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI issued a decree yesterday allowing cardinals to bring forward a conclave to elect his successor, as the resignation...

WASHINGTON: US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor yesterday condemned racially charged language used by a federal prosecutor in Texas. The justice, appointed to...

HARARE: Zimbabwe police vowed yesterday to pursue a crackdown on civic society organisations, saying some Western-backed groups posed a “serious security threat”. Police...

ROME: Conflicting early forecasts of the result of Italy’s election yesterday raised the spectre of deadlock in parliament that could paralyse a new...

HAVANA: Fidel Castro and the Cuban communist party have given the green light for reforms paving the way for a new, younger generation...