ROME: Two top Italian defence executives arrested in a bribery scandal over the sale of 12 helicopters to India faced arraignment on Friday,...
ROME: Two top Italian defence executives arrested in a bribery scandal over the sale of 12 helicopters to India faced arraignment on Friday,...
ANKARA: Turkish artillery struck back on Friday after a shell fired from neighbouring Syria ploughed into Turkish territory without causing any casualties, the...
FRANKFURT: The largest-ever retrospective of works of Yoko Ono, once described by her late husband John Lennon as "the most famous unknown artist...
ISTANBUL: Turkey purchased $6 billion worth of oil from Iran in 2012 and will continue oil imports from the Islamic Republic, Turkish Energy...
TOKYO: Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan will commit roughly $40 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority. Abe made the promise...
DHAKA: Bangladesh has banned the Japanese manga cartoon Doraemon from its TV screens over fears that youngsters who are hooked on the Hindi-dubbed...
FRANKFURT: Bosch, the German car parts maker, believes it will have to cut jobs in response to stagnating business in Europe, the group's...
SRINAGAR, India: Indian troops shot dead a Pakistani soldier along the de facto border in the disputed Kashmir region in the first deadly...
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Ambassador of the State of Qatar to Brunei Darussalam, HE Saleh Mohammed Al Nesef, has met here with Brunei’s Minister...
BOSTON: NASA is keeping close tabs on a sizable asteroid set to whiz past our planet Friday in what the US space agency...
TUNIS: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will extend a loan and grant of US$ 11.4 million and a loan of $...
PARIS: Airbus will not use lithium batteries in the A350 long-range liner under development, a company source told AFP on Friday, as investigations...
TOKYO: An 11-year-old boy has died after throwing himself under a train in Japan, in an apparent suicide in protest at plans to...
PRETORIA: Superstar sprinter Oscar Pistorius is to appear in court Friday, where he is expected to apply for bail and face charges that...
TOKYO: Tokyo shares slipped 1.18 percent on Friday as the yen strengthened while investors awaited the start of a Group of 20 meeting...
ISLAMABAD: At least eight militants were killed on Friday in an operation carried out by security forces in the Orakzai tribal region of...
NEW DELHI: A fire at India's massive Kumbh Mela festival killed a Hindu priest in the second deadly tragedy to mar the gathering...
SYDNEY: In January 2010 a suspected Mossad hit squad assassinated a top Hamas militant in Dubai. It emerged afterwards -- to the fury...
