A pedestrian looks at the falling snow while crossing the road in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo yesterday. The winter’s first snowfall...
A pedestrian looks at the falling snow while crossing the road in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo yesterday. The winter’s first snowfall...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president completed the controversial impeachment of the chief justice by choosing a successor yesterday, his spokesman said, as lawyers vowed...
GENEVA: The UN’s top human rights official said yesterday that as many as 200,000 people are being held in North Korean political prison...
LAIZA, Myanmar: Kachin rebels in Myanmar said three civilians were killed and six wounded yesterday in the first government attack on their stronghold,...
MANILA: Philippine police said yesterday that they rescued a kidnapped Indian businessman being held for ransom but not before his captors had cut...
BEIJING: Public anger in China at dangerous levels of air pollution, which blanketed Beijing in acrid smog, spread yesterday as state media queried...
TOKYO: Japan will deploy two more patrol ships to boost its defence of islands at the centre of a territorial row with China...
BEIJING: Chinese leaders have given final approval for a long-awaited new international airport in Beijing, costing $11.2bn, to ease crushing congestion at the...
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will sign defence and nuclear energy deals worth $1.5bn during a three-day visit to Russia, the government...
Cubans queue outside the Mexican Embassy in Havana, to request visas, yesterday. A law allowing Cubans to travel abroad without special exit visas...
WASHINGTON: The crowd will be smaller, the temperature hopefully warmer and security as tight as ever when Barack Obama is sworn in for...
BAMAKO/PARIS: Al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels launched a counteroffensive in Mali yesterday after four days of French air strikes on their northern strongholds, seizing...
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday played down the prospect of a referendum any time soon on whether Britain should leave the...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama yesterday offered support for a ban on assault weapons as part of a “sensible” effort to reduce gun...
CARACAS: Mixed signals from officials in Venezuela sparked confusion yesterday over the condition of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez, under treatment in a Cuban...
LONDON: Prince William and his wife Catherine’s first child is due in July, St James’ Palace announced yesterday, adding that the mother-to-be is...
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday played down the prospect of a referendum any time soon on whether Britain should leave the...
US actress Mia Farrow, a Unicef goodwill ambassador, with children of Syrian refugees in Wadi Khaled, north Lebanon, yesterday. Farrow is on a...
