BAGHDAD: Mortar attacks on a camp housing Iranian dissidents near Baghdad killed a number of people early on Saturday, an Iraqi security official...
BAGHDAD: Mortar attacks on a camp housing Iranian dissidents near Baghdad killed a number of people early on Saturday, an Iraqi security official...
WASHINGTON: Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt plans to sell 3.2 million "A" shares, currently worth $2.5 billion, over the next year, Google said Friday...
WASHINGTON: The United States will make a decision soon on the fate of a controversial Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, new Secretary of State John...
COTABATO, Philippines: Philippine police have shot dead a suspect in the 2009 killings of 57 people, the country's worst political massacre, a senior...
A Bangladeshi man mourns the loss of his relative after the ferry accident in Munshiganj, yesterday. DHAKA: Two people were confirmed dead and...
KATHMANDU: The head of Nepal’s ruling Maoists yesterday pledged that the country was headed towards elections after he cemented his position as leader...
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court charged two people yesterday with inciting terrorism in Syria after Amnesty International urged authorities to try or release...
TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday demanded Beijing apologise and admit that a Chinese frigate got a radar lock on a Japanese...
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan prisoner who tried to hide his mobile phone during a search of his cell was caught out when guards...
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived here yesterday after praying at Buddhism’s holiest shrine at Bodh Gaya amid protests against...
New Delhi: Signalling the European Union’s (EU) change of policy towards Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over the 2002 riots in the state,...
New Delhi: Egyptian Prsident Mohamed Mursi, the country’s first democratically elected president, is to visit India in the third week of March. This...
MUMBAI: A teenage boy axed his father to death after learning that he was to marry for a fifth time, reports said yesterday....
Kochi: Riot police fired water cannon yesterday at hundreds of protesters in Kerala demanding the resignation of a lawmaker over allegations he raped...
Youths stop commuters during a strike in Karachi, yesterday. Schools and businesses remained closed in Pakistan’s financial capital as the top court accused...
PARACHINAR: A bomb blast killed 16 people and injured 23 in Pakistan yesterday, in an area that the government said it had cleared...
KABUL: The Geneva-based UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has expressed “alarm” over reports that hundreds of children have been...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif has demanded immediate talks with the Taliban and called on the government to take seriously a...
