World

France's Calais border warning prompts Brexit row 04 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron in Paris on February 24, 2016. AFP, Thomas Samson London: A French minister's comment that Paris would no...

Canada gets down to climate business 04 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced antagonistic provincial leaders at climate talks Thursday over his plans to set a national carbon price in...

Russia warns of 'very long' war in Yemen 04 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, speaking to reporters after a UN Security Council meeting on the Yemen crisis, told reporters he was concerned that...

Google says its engineers working with UNICEF to map Zika 04 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

A Brazilian Army soldier shows a pamphlet which will be distributed in the city, after a ceremony to mark the graduation from training...

US defense chief urges Congress to stick to bipartisan budget deal 04 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told military leaders and industry at an event hosted by Microsoft Corp that the Department of Defense needed...

A flawed visionary, McClendon ignited shale revolution, courted controversy 04 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Aubrey McClendon was considered one of the most influential energy executives of his generation, revered by oilmen but criticized by environmentalists for championing...

US sends elite disaster experts to respond to Ethiopia drought 04 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Ethiopia is struggling from its worst drought for 30 years. AFP, Joel Robine By Katy Migiro NAIROBI: The United States is sending an...

Brazil senator’s plea bargain implicates Rousseff, Lula - media 04 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Handout picture released by the Instituto Lula shows Former Brazilian president Lula celebrating his 70th birthday with his grandson, his wife Marisa Leticia,...

Breivik ready to go to European court to end isolation: lawyer 04 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Self confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik raises his fist in a right wing salute after being sentenced on August 20, 2014 in...

Kapoor's blacker than black monopoly angers artists 04 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Sculptor Anish Kapoor, pictured on June 5, 2015, has snapped up the exclusive rights to Vantablack, which absorbs 99.96 percent of light AFP...

Cuba sending Americans to the beach during Obama visit 04 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

The U.S. flag flies at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, August 14, 2015. Reuters/Yander Zamora By Marc Frank HAVANA: Americans traveling to...

Pentagon chief wary of tech 'back doors' 03 Mar 2016 - 06:58 pm

US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter speaks about Russian airstrikes in Syria during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, September...

'Visible' progress in Syria ceasefire as civilian deaths fall 03 Mar 2016 - 06:42 pm

Vehicles drive at a street after a ceasefire that went into effect in the capital Damascus, Syria, 27 February 2016. EPA, Youssef Badawi ...

EU would be less stable without UK: Germany’s Schaeuble 03 Mar 2016 - 06:35 pm

German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble delivers a speech in the Bundestag, the German lower house of parliament in Berlin on July 17, 2015....

Ex-Scottish nationalist deputy leader backs British EU exit 03 Mar 2016 - 06:26 pm

In a pamphlet published on Thursday Jim Sillars, deputy leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 1991 to 1992, criticised the party...

On Republican debate day, 2012 nominee Romney to rebuke Trump 03 Mar 2016 - 06:19 pm

Donald Trump and Mitt Romney shake hands after Trump endorsed his candidacy for president, February 2, 2012. REUTERS/STEVE MARCUS By Steve Holland DETROIT:...

Ukraine pilot plans hunger strike over Russia trial delay 03 Mar 2016 - 06:01 pm

Ukrainian airforce helicopter navigator Nadiya Savchenko looks out from a defendants' cell during a hearing in the southern Russian town of Donetsk on...