A visitor looks at documents at an exhibition dedicated to the former Communist leader and KGB head, Yuri Andropov, in Moscow. MOSCOW: Amid...
A visitor looks at documents at an exhibition dedicated to the former Communist leader and KGB head, Yuri Andropov, in Moscow. MOSCOW: Amid...
LONDON: The UK is to encourage the development of driverless cars on its roads, it was announced yesterday, with a multimillion-pound research fund...
MANILA: An influential Chinese journalist and a crusading environmental lawyer from China are among this year’s winners of Asia’s Magsaysay awards, the organisers...
A guard walks among red poppies in the moat at the Tower of London yesterday. The Tower of London moat is slowly turning...
An artist’s impression of the steel Cloud Arch, which will tower up to 50 metres above Sydney’s main street. SYDNEY: A giant Japanese-designed...
An image taken by Nasa’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows “Lunokhod 2 Crater,” which is approximately six metres in diameter. WASHINGTON: The US...
A file photo of Eric Clapton performing in New York. LONDON: A year after the death of American cult singer-songwriter JJ Cale, his...
PARIS: On a summer’s day in central Paris, hundreds of tourists are enjoying a picnic in the city’s Tuileries garden. It’s a picture...
Japanese “Cosplay” fans clad in Transformers robot costumes pose for photos at the Japan premiere of the latest movie in the series, “Transformers:...
South Korean hikers climb stairs at Mount Odae-san National Park. ODAE-SAN, South Korea: South Koreans are weekend warriors. The sport of choice? Hiking....
LONDON: Britain’s broadcasting watchdog criticised the BBC yesterday after Jeremy Clarkson, presenter of motoring programme Top Gear, used an “offensive racial term” in...
FRANKFURT: A German chemistry professor started yesterday a gruelling four-week solo swim down the Rhine river for the benefit of science and the...
A man takes a picture of hot air balloons in flight at the 32nd annual QuickChek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning at Solberg...
Singer Johanna Wokalek as Charlotte Salomon performs on stage during a dress rehearsal of Marc-Andre Dalbavie’s opera ‘Charlotte Salomon’ in Salzburg yesterday. SALZBURG,...
Cast members Isaac Hempstead Wright (left) and Elle Fanning pose with Boxtrolls characters at a press line for “The Boxtrolls” during the 2014...
A woman walks through a maze of sunflowers growing in a field during a three-day sunflower festival in the town of Nogi, Tochigi...
WASHINGTON: Director Luc Besson’s action sci-fi thriller “Lucy,” about a woman turned superhuman by using 100 percent of her brain, debuted at the...
Visitors ride the little train of Artouste in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques, southwestern France. The train, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary, snakes up along...
