MUMBAI: Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday promised to hunt for the Taliban attackers who shot Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai for speaking up...
MUMBAI: Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday promised to hunt for the Taliban attackers who shot Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai for speaking up...
MINGORA: Pakistan marked “Malala Day” yesterday on a global day of support for the teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education,...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani president has finally backed down from his controversial choice for ambassadorship in Beijing. Senior diplomat Masood Khalid has now been...
KARACHI: Pakistani university Szabist has installed the country’s first indigenously designed and locally fabricated wind turbine of at its Gharo Research Centre yesterday....
QUETTA: Gunmen shot dead three Shia Muslims and wounded three others yesterday in a fresh sectarian attack in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern province of...
COLOMBO: Heavily-armed troops guarded Sri Lanka’s lone maximum security prison yesterday after helping to crush the country’s worst jail riot in three decades,...
YANGON: President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi must show “moral leadership” if Myanmar is to stem communal violence between...
BEIJING: Chinese officials accustomed to the tame questions of a compliant state press were caught out by a plucky 11-year-old reporter during the...
MANILA: Canada and the Philippines signed a deal yesterday to help Manila buy military equipment to defend its territory, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen...
BANNANG SATA: They are rubber tappers by trade but every week are summoned to the scene of beheadings, bombs and shootings as volunteer...
TOKYO: Japan and the United States have agreed to discuss updating 15-year-old guidelines on their security alliance in view of China’s growing military...
Volunteers help to clean up in the heavily damaged Rockaway neighbourhood where a large section of the iconic boardwalk was washed away in...
LONDON: The head of the BBC admitted yesterday it faced a “crisis of trust” after its flagship news programme wrongly implicated a British...
WASHINGTON: Washington was in shock yesterday after the sudden resignation of CIA chief and ex-US commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, David Petraeus, handing...
Washington: The US upreme Court agreed to review a legal challenge to the Voting Rights Act, a landmark law adopted in 1965 to...
Children drink and eat at Tarifa’s port, near Cadiz, yesterday, after being rescued off the Spanish coast. Spanish emergency services intercepted three boats...
VATICAN CITY: A Vatican court yesterday convicted a computer programmer employed by the world’s tiniest state for helping Pope Benedict XVI’s butler engineer...
COPENHAGEN: Denmark said yesterday it would scrap a fat tax it introduced a little over a year ago in a world first, saying...