Demonstrators near the headquarters of Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou, China, yesterday. BEIJING: Hundreds of people demonstrated in support of media freedom in...
Demonstrators near the headquarters of Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou, China, yesterday. BEIJING: Hundreds of people demonstrated in support of media freedom in...
BEIJING: China will stop using its long-criticised “re-education” labour camps this year, state media quoted a senior official as saying yesterday — only...
Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson (left) and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt arrive in Pyongyang yesterday. BEIJING: Former New Mexico governor Bill...
Miss Universe first runner-up Janine Tugonon of the Philippines, is escorted by a member of Philippine student cadet corps, at a victory parade...
MANILA: A US drone believed to be used for reconnaissance was recovered yesterday in waters off the central Philippines, police and naval authorities...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal yesterday ordered parliament to drop its impeachment of the country’s top judge, amid international concern for judicial...
Police personnel guide a vehicle carrying the accused in the gang rape and murder case, at an entrance to Saket District Court in...
Rajesh Gangwar during his hunger strike at the Jantar Mantar. New Delhi: One of the two protesters on indefinite fast at the Jantar...
NEW DELHI: The Chief justice has ordered judges to set up special courts to fast-track trials for sex crimes after the outcry over...
US Senator Carl Levin (second from right) speaks with Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf (right) during a meeting in Islamabad, yesterday. He...
ISLAMABAD: In yet another step suggesting Pakistan’s eagerness to facilitate a peace deal in Afghanistan, Islamabad has facilitated direct talks between the Taliban...
KARACHI: Pakistan’s financial hub Karachi saw its deadliest year in two decades in 2012, with around 2,000 people killed in violence linked to...
KABUL: President Hamid Karzai yesterday left Afghanistan for talks with Barack Obama in Washington to focus on security in his war-torn country after...
PESHAWAR: Kainat Riaz and Shazia Ramzan, the two students who suffered injuries when Pakistani Taliban attacked and wounded seriously Malala Yousufzai in October...
ISLAMABAD: Intense fog and chill has broken the 50-year record in plains of Pakistani Punjab province. The extreme weather will remain unchanged next...
PARIS: European aircraft manufacturer Airbus said on Monday that it had won a tender to supply India with six A330 air refuelling tankers,...
HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (L) is welcomed by Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika upon his arrival at the Boumediene airport...
BANGKOK: An Algerian computer hacker wanted by the FBI for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from American banks to fund a lavish lifestyle...
