World

Eiffel Tower reopens after five-day strike 18 Dec 2016 - 03:24 pm

Paris: The Eiffel Tower reopened to the public on Sunday after a labour strike closed the Paris landmark for five days. Members of...

No Big Ben gong in London for sometime 18 Dec 2016 - 12:34 pm

London: The doors to Britain's most famous clock tower, London's Big Ben, was closed to the public in preparation for a facelift costing...

India appoints new army, air force and intelligence chiefs 18 Dec 2016 - 11:59 am

NEW DELHI: The Indian government has appointed new heads of its army and air force among a series senior military and intelligence appointments,...

Venezuela delays removing currency bills amid protests 18 Dec 2016 - 11:15 am

Caracas: With protests rocking his unpopular government, embattled President Nicolas Maduro delayed until January 2 taking Venezuela's highest denomination bill out of circulation....

13 killed in Indonesian military plane crash 18 Dec 2016 - 10:49 am

Jakarta: Thirteen people have died after an Indonesian military transport plane crashed in the east of the country on Sunday, officials said, marking...

Pilot in footballers' crash in Colombia 'was not trained properly' 18 Dec 2016 - 09:45 am

La Paz: The pilot in the plane crash that killed 71 people traveling to Colombia on a Bolivian charter including footballers from Brazil...

Japan culling 210,000 birds amid spreading avian flu 18 Dec 2016 - 09:40 am

Tokyo: Japan has begun slaughtering about 210,000 farm birds in northern Hokkaido to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian...

Suicide bomber kills at least 30 soldiers in Yemen's Aden - officials 18 Dec 2016 - 09:37 am

ADEN: A suicide bomber killed at least 30 soldiers in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Sunday, officials there said, a...

Trump names Mick Mulvaney as budget director 18 Dec 2016 - 02:12 am

West Palm Beach, Florida: As he prepared for the final stop on his postelection “thank you” tour, President-elect Donald Trump yesterday announced his...

Thousands to attend Glenn’s memorial 18 Dec 2016 - 02:08 am

Columbus: Thousands were expected to gather in Ohio for a memorial service to pay tribute to American space legend John Glenn, who died...

Swimmers get a chance to be mermaids 18 Dec 2016 - 02:08 am

Guanghou: Chinese mermaid fans are getting a chance to live out their dream of swimming underwater like the mythical aquatic creature. Dada Li,...

Cash crisis: Looting & protests in Venezuela 18 Dec 2016 - 02:02 am

Caracas: Desperate Venezuelans looted delivery trucks and clashed with police as a botched plan to introduce new banknotes left people without cash—the latest...

Protests in Poland after parliament blockade 18 Dec 2016 - 02:02 am

Warsaw: Several thousand people protested yesterday outside the presidential palace in Warsaw over alleged vote fraud and the rightwing government’s plans to impose...

France defers Middle East peace meet to January 18 Dec 2016 - 02:02 am

Paris: FRANCE has postponed a proposed Middle East peace conference in Paris to January next year, its ambassador to the United Nations said,...

Sharma hits out at Modi for insulting Indira Gandhi 18 Dec 2016 - 02:02 am

Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma, taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making a comment on former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, asked him...

Political parties' tax books can be scrutinised: FM 18 Dec 2016 - 01:54 am

Mumbai/New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (pictured) yesterday said that no change has been made in tax laws to bar income tax...

Govt to double operational airports to 150 18 Dec 2016 - 01:52 am

New Delhi: The central government yesterday said that it is trying to double the number of operational airports in the country from 75...

'Action against corrupt in 2 minutes' a joke: BJP on Rahul 18 Dec 2016 - 01:51 am

The BJP yesterday said that Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's (pictured) promise at a rally on Friday to take action against corrupt party leaders...