Karachi---Pakistani security forces raided the offices of the main political party in Karachi on Wednesday, arresting activists and seizing a "huge quantity" of...
Karachi---Pakistani security forces raided the offices of the main political party in Karachi on Wednesday, arresting activists and seizing a "huge quantity" of...
Jakarta---An Indonesian minister has warned a "human tsunami" of asylum-seekers could be unleashed on Australia in retaliation if Canberra keeps pressing for clemency...
Tokyo---Whale meat imported into Japan from Norway has been dumped after tests found it contained up to twice the permitted level of harmful...
Yangon---Families of scores of arrested Myanmar activists on Wednesday sought news of their loved ones who were detained by police in a violent...
Zaur Dadayev Moscow---A former Chechen police officer who admitted to taking part in the murder of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov "likely confessed...
Beirut---The Islamic State jihadist group launched a major offensive Wednesday to try to capture a Kurdish town on the Syrian-Turkish border, a monitoring...
Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed Colombo---Lawyers for former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed have quit in protest against what they call a biased trial aimed...
DUBAI // Police officers raided a hotel room to arrest an Emirati policewoman who was taking a shower with a man. Dubai Court...
Buenos Aires---Argentina will manufacture locally designed military drones, according to an announcement Tuesday in the official government gazette. The program has an initial...
DUBAI // Hundreds of workers took to the streets in Dubai yesterday in protest at pay rates for overtime. The protesters, employed by...
Miami---Florida is widely known as the Sunshine State but when it comes to harnessing solar power, lots of customers find it just doesn't...
Shichigahama, Japan---Japan marked the fourth anniversary Wednesday of the quake-tsunami disaster that swept away thousands of people and sparked a nuclear crisis, a...
Frei Otto Washington---German architect Frei Otto was named as winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize on Tuesday, a day after his death at...
RIYADH: Nearly 165,000 couples in Saudi Arabia cancelled plans to marry in 2014 after tests showed they were suffering from Aids and other...
Joerg Haider Vienna---Joerg Haider may be long dead, but the colourful far-right politician who praised Hitler's "orderly" employment policies is coming back to...
Kagarlyk, Ukraine---A Soviet tank mounted on a plinth outside a primary school attests to the last time the central Ukrainian town of Kagarlyk...
Vilnius---A quarter-century after Lithuania's split from the Soviet Union, the architect of the Baltic state's independence Vytautas Landsbergis has warned that Russian President...
Lucknow, India---Every day, Aditya Kumar cycles around 40 miles with a heavy load of books and his few possessions on the back of...
