World

Kim Jong-Un vows to raise living standards, warns foreign 'provocateurs' 01 Jan 2016 - 05:38 pm

A South Korean soldier walks past a television screen showing a broadcast of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's New Year speech, at a...

PM Abe pledges to keep Japan out of war 01 Jan 2016 - 05:02 pm

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday promised he will keep his nation out of war following the introduction of contentious new...

EU-Ukraine trade deal comes into force, angers Moscow 01 Jan 2016 - 04:54 pm

A bulldozer crushes boxes of peaches outside Smolensk in August 2015 after Russian officials began a controversial drive to destroy Western food smuggled...

In Israel, Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' an enduring taboo 01 Jan 2016 - 04:50 pm

A copy of "Mein Kampf", Hitler's anti-Semitic rant, which he wrote from prison in the early 1920s, is seen displayed at the Yad...

Pope's Jubilee year off to a sluggish start 01 Jan 2016 - 04:46 pm

Vatican City: Pope Francis's Jubilee Year of Mercy has got off to a sluggish start, to the disappointment of Rome's hoteliers, restaurateurs and...

Nepal's ex-child soldier blazes ultra running trail 01 Jan 2016 - 04:40 pm

Kathmandu: As a child soldier with Nepal's Maoists, Mira Rai learned to fire guns, disarm opponents and race down trails, little imagining her...

China arrests 11 for deadly landslide, death toll now 12 01 Jan 2016 - 04:35 pm

File photo BEIJING: Chinese authorities have formally arrested 11 people for their role in a deadly landslide last month in the southern boomtown...

Iran-US tensions flare over new sanctions threat 01 Jan 2016 - 04:28 pm

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has denounced possible new US sanctions on his country, which, if enacted, could jeopardise a hard-won nuclear deal Tehran:...

'One hour, then that's it': Dubai fire survivor hangs from balcony 01 Jan 2016 - 04:22 pm

Smoke billows from the Address Downtown Hotel, after it caught on fire hours earlier, on January 1, 2015 (AFP Photo/Karim Sahib) Dubai: Grasping...

Wayne Rogers, Trapper John on TV’s ‘M*A*S*H’, dies at 82 01 Jan 2016 - 04:15 pm

Rogers quit “M*A*S*H” after three seasons in contract dispute Remained good friends with “M*A*S*H” co-star Alda Later became financial analyst, investor, TV commentator ...

Britain welcomes New Year with London Eye fireworks 01 Jan 2016 - 03:59 pm

Fireworks explode around Big Ben during New Year's celebrations in London just after midnight on January 1, 2016 (AFP Photo/Justin Tallis) London: Britain...

World welcomes New Year despite terror fears 01 Jan 2016 - 03:54 pm

People watch fireworks during New Year celebrations at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro (AFP Photo/Yasuyoshi Chiba) Paris: Europe welcomed in the New...

INSIGHT: Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack: former employees 01 Jan 2016 - 03:46 pm

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail...

Somali workers fired at Colorado packing plant in prayer dispute 01 Jan 2016 - 03:39 pm

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the workers were treated in a “discriminatory manner” by managers at the Cargill Meat Solutions facility...

Uprooted by war, Colombian indigenous people doubt peace 01 Jan 2016 - 03:35 pm

Ariel, a traditional Embera indigenous doctor, remains at a shelter for displaced Embera people in Bogota, Colombia (AFP Photo/Guillermo Legaria) Bogota: When Delfina...

White House delays plans to hit Iran with new sanctions: report 01 Jan 2016 - 03:30 pm

Washington: The White House has delayed plans to slap new sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missile program, a US news report said...

Ivory Coast president frees prisoners held over post-vote violence 01 Jan 2016 - 03:24 pm

Abidjan: Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara announced Thursday in his New Year's address that he had reduced the sentences of 3,100 prisoners held...