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PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Suicide bombers attacked the offices of a top Pakistani official in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, killing five people...

DUBAI: Shareholders of Qatar Insurance have approved plans for a rights issue worth 963.2 million riyals ($264.6 million) and to sell a 20-percent...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI began a week-long spiritual retreat out of the public eye on Monday ahead of his resignation, with the...

LAHAD DATU, Malaysia: A peace deal between the Philippines and Muslim rebels has alienated traditional rulers and their followers about 100 of whom...

MOSCOW: Scientists said Monday they had discovered fragments of the meteor that spectacularly plunged over Russia's Ural Mountains creating a shockwave that injured...

DUBAI: Bahrain-based investment manager Investcorp has bought a controlling stake in Scotland-based oil field services provider Hydrasun, taking its $1 billion Gulf Opportunity...

QUETTA, Pakistan: Pakistani Shi'ites furious over a sectarian bombing that killed 85 people protested on Monday, demanding that security forces protect them from...

BANGKOK: A British couple who were 18 months into a trip around the world by bicycle have been killed in a road accident...

TOKYO: Tokyo shares jumped 2.09 percent Monday as the yen weakened after Japan avoided criticism at G20 talks over the recent slide in...

SEOUL: LG Electronics unveiled Monday the latest version of its flagship smartphone, boasting a higher resolution screen aimed at gaining a technical edge...

MUMBAI: Shares in Jet Airways India Ltd fell as much as 6.8 percent on Monday after Etihad Airways chairman said the Abu Dhabi-based...

LONDON: BBC journalists on Monday began a 24-hour strike in protest at compulsory redundancies, causing possible disruption to the broadcaster's television and radio...

Kashmiri women walk in front of shuttered shops during the second day of strike in Srinagar, yesterday. Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Gilani called...

New Delhi: A CBI team is likely to leave for Italy today to probe the allegations of kickbacks in the $750m deal for...

New Delhi: Britain is still likely to push for the Eurofighter Typhoon during Prime Minister David Cameron’s India visit, less than a week...

New Delhi: Trial of the five men charged with gang-raping a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus here on Decembr 16 will take...

Kolkata: The parents of a 10-month-old girl were arrested for killing their baby in West Bengal’s North 24-Parganas district, police said yesterday. “A...

Hyderabad: Declaring that he would mobilise 60 million people over the next one-and- a-half-year for his anti-graft campaign, Anna Hazare yesterday said Jan...