Japan’s incoming prime minister and the leader of Liberal Democratic Party, Shinzo Abe, and his wife Akie pay respects at the grave of...
Japan’s incoming prime minister and the leader of Liberal Democratic Party, Shinzo Abe, and his wife Akie pay respects at the grave of...
MANILA: As more relief aid from Brunei, China and New Zealand came in, Cabinet secretaries prepared to distribute 173,000 Christmas Eve food packs...
MANILA: The Philippines has passed a landmark law that criminalises “enforced disappearances”, a presidential spokeswoman said yesterday, in a move hailed by human...
COLOMBO: Police in Sri Lanka have arrested 100 Chinese nationals for an online currency fraud scam in a string of night-time raids in...
BEIJING: China has banned senior military officers from holding alcohol-fuelled banquets or from staying in luxury hotels when on work trips in the...
DHULIKHEL: He may not be much of a doctor but the children’s faces light up when Dush The Clown shuffles into their ward...
Cars drive northbound on the M6 motorway near Knutsford yesterday during heavy rainfall. Heavy rain across Britain has led to travel disruption and...
WASHINGTON: The US most powerful pro-gun lobbying group is suggesting that armed police be deployed to every school in the country following a...
LONDON: Britain’s former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was in hospital yesterday recovering from a minor operation to remove a growth in her bladder...
LONDON: British prosecutors will decide whether to charge two Australian DJs after a nurse who took a hoax call to a hospital treating...
DUBLIN: The Irish political world was in shock yesterday after a member of Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s government was found dead in circumstances...
LONDON: Prince William and his pregnant wife Catherine will spend Christmas Day at her parents’ family house, instead of with Queen Elizabeth II,...
A driver cleans his car after a snowfall in Kiev, Ukraine, yesterday. Snow and frost of minus 15 degrees Celsius are forecast in...
ROME: Italy’s head of state dissolved parliament yesterday and opened the way to a February election, with doubts growing over whether outgoing Prime...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI yesterday pardoned his former butler Paolo Gabriele who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing secret...
KANO, Nigeria: Two suspected suicide car bombers blew themselves up in coordinated attacks yesterday on two major telecoms companies in the volatile northern...
JOHANNESBURG: Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, who is 94, continues to respond to treatment two weeks after being taken...
BERLIN: Peer Steinbrueck, set to challenge Angela Merkel as German leader next year, criticised her centre-right government yesterday for letting arms exports surge...
