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NEW DELHI: French President Francois Hollande made a fresh push Thursday to clinch the world's biggest defence deal, the $12 billion sale of...

FRANKFURT: German rail operator Deutsche Bahn is suing the Canadian train maker Bombardier over repeated and ongoing problems with some of its trains,...

ANKARA: Royal Dutch Shell signed an agreement with Turkey's state-owned energy company TPAO on oil exploration in the western Black Sea region on...

MANILA: Romantic Filipinos abroad have found a way to bridge the gap with loved ones at home on Valentine's Day -- via an...

FRANKFURT: German sportswear giant Puma said Thursday restructuring charges pushed it into the red in the fourth quarter of 2012 and weighed on...

BAGHDAD: Iraq National Assembly and United Iraq Alliance member Abbas Al Bayati Thursday welcomed the step to cancel demonstrations and unified prayer planned...

MUMBAI: Indians were at the forefront of global protests on Thursday in the One Billion Rising campaign for women's rights, galvanised by the...

FRANKFURT: German sportswear giant Puma said Thursday restructuring charges pushed it into the red in the fourth quarter of 2012 and weighed on...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed one of its nationals in Riyadh after he was convicted of murdering another man, the interior ministry...

KABUL: At least 18 people were killed and 23 others were injured on Thursday when a passenger bus lost control and overturned in...

DOHA: Qatar Airways is set to host the world's largest meeting of air freight industry executives, airline officials and other stakeholders next month...

MUMBAI: An Indian regulator has frozen the bank accounts of two companies of the giant Sahara group after it failed to obey a...

NEW DELHI: The daughter of legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar said Thursday in a video released for a global women's rights campaign...

BEIRUT: An Iranian official was killed in Syria overnight by "armed terrorists" while travelling from Damascus towards Lebanon, the Iranian embassy in Beirut...

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius has been arrested after shooting dead his girlfriend having mistaken her for an intruder, media...

DOHA: Qatar's sovereign wealth fund is in advanced talks with Russia's second-largest bank VTB  about injecting between $3 billion and $3.5 billion into...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI will address Rome's parish priests on Thursday, talking about his personal experiences as a young church reformer ahead...

LONDON: Global gold demand fell last year for the first time since 2009 as jewellery buying abated in the key Indian and Chinese...