Islamabad: Pakistan's fourth nuclear power plant went online yesterday, a joint collaboration with China that adds 340 megawatts to the national grid as...
Seoul: South Korea's state-run pension fund chief was detained yesterday in a widening probe to determine whether President Park Geun-hye forced companies including...
Shanghai: Chinese customs seized over three tonnes of pangolin scales, state media said yesterday, in the country's biggest-ever smuggling case involving the animal...
Chennai: Several persons were injured in a clash between AIADMK workers and supporters of Rajya Sabha member Sasikala Pushpa outside the ruling party's...
Moscow: Russian rescuers trawling the Black Sea yesterday found the second black box from a Syria-bound military plane that crashed at the weekend...
NEW DELHI: A train derailed in India on Wednesday injuring 61 people, police and rail officials said, the third significant accident in recent...
Montevideo: Uruguay's last military dictator, General Gregorio "El Goyo" Alvarez, died yesterday at age 91 of heart failure, a defence ministry official said....
Peral Harbour: In a historic pilgrimage, the leaders of Japan and the United States took to the hallowed waters of Pearl Harbour to...
Ankara: One Turkish soldier and two Kurdish militants died as a result of clashes overnight in the eastern province of Tunceli, security sources...
Khartoum: Sudanese lawmakers voted yesterday to bring back the post of prime minister, a position abolished after President Omar Hassan Al Bashir came...
Jerusalem: Israel delayed a vote yesterday on permits for settler homes at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request, ahead of a speech by US...
Niamey: Dozens of Boko Haram fighters have given themselves up to authorities in southern Niger, the interior minister said, days after the Islamist...
A STRONG earthquake struck northeast of Tokyo late yesterday but there was no fear of a tsunami, Japan's meteorological agency said. It put...
A PRISONER who escaped twice from high-security jails in South Africa died while being treated for an illness that guards reportedly at first...
Dhaka: Police in Bangladesh have arrested five suspected Islamist militants believed to be plotting to attack New Year celebrations, a counter-terrorism police chief...
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian opposition parties have called on Southeast Asian countries to be firmer with Myanmar to end decades-old violence against Rohingya Muslims...
Islamabad: Pakistani police yesterday caught three men accused of preparing home-made liquor mixed with aftershave that killed 34 people including a fourth suspect...
