Damascus: A nationwide ceasefire was holding across most of Syria yesterday but clashes near Damascus underlined the fragility of the deal brokered by...
Beijing: The world's highest bridge has opened to traffic in China, connecting two provinces in the mountainous southwest and reducing travel times by...
SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea's Constitutional Court on Friday said it cannot require President Park Geun-hye to testify in her impeachment trial that...
Sydney: Australian counter-terror officers arrested a 40-year-old man at Sydney Airport, after he disembarked from a flight from London, and charged him with...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened corrupt government officials with the prospect of being thrown out of a helicopter mid-air, warning he...
Mumbai: Indians rushed to change their bank notes Friday before a deadline to deposit invalid rupee notes closed, as Prime Minister Modi defended...
At least 10 people have been killed and many others are feared trapped inside a coal mine in the Indian state of Jharkhand...
Experts yet again doubt tall claims made by the Nigerian president and the military that the war against Boko Haram has been won. ...
VIENNA: Twin panda cubs born last summer at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo have ventured out of their cave to make their public debut, keepers...
BUCHAREST: Romania’s president accepted Sorin Grindeanu for the post of prime minister on Friday after rejecting the Social Democrat Party’s (PSD) previous nominee,...
President Barack Obama is forcing his successor, Donald Trump, into a difficult choice: reverse the sanctions the departing president just imposed on Russia...
Paris: European capitals tightened security yesterday ahead of the New Year’s celebrations, erecting concrete barriers in city centres and stepping up police numbers...
Lisbon: Portugal plans to extradite to Italy a former CIA agent convicted over the 2003 abduction of a radical Egyptian imam, a case...
London: The Pakistani man wrongly arrested for the Berlin truck attack yesterday said he had told German police he could not even drive...
London: A post-mortem examination on the body of late pop icon George Michael, who died on Christmas Day after a chart-topping career and...
Cangas De Onis: With more than 100,000 people aged 100 or over, Spain is the country with the greatest life expectancy after Japan,...
United Nations: Antonio Guterres (pictured) assumes the reins of the United Nations tomorrow hoping to breathe new life into the world body, in...
