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Bangladesh factory owners to stand trial over deadly fire 03 Sep 2015 - 04:23 pm

DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Thursday ordered two garment factory owners and 11 others to stand trial for causing the death of 111...

Migrants leave Budapest for Austrian frontier; pressure builds for EU action 03 Sep 2015 - 03:59 pm

Migrants storm into a train at the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary, September 3, 2015 as Hungarian police withdrew from the gates...

Chris the sheep loses 40kg fleece 03 Sep 2015 - 03:57 pm

A sheep named 'Chris' pictured on the outskirts of Canberra as Australian animal welfare officers put out an urgent appeal for shearers to...

China holds massive military parade, to cut troop levels by 300,000 03 Sep 2015 - 03:09 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping stands in a car on his way to review the army as military band members play next to him,...

Philippine children stunted by malnutrition: welfare report 03 Sep 2015 - 02:39 pm

International studies have showed the Philippines has the ninth largest proportion of stunted children. MANILA: Children in the Philippines suffer from "sub-Saharan levels"...

Indonesian politician threatens ban on teen dating after dark 03 Sep 2015 - 02:33 pm

JAKARTA: Dating just got harder for Indonesian teenagers in West Java, with a local leader on Thursday threatening to ban late-night trysts and...

Mulayam dumps Bihar alliance, to contest alone 03 Sep 2015 - 01:40 pm

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party on Thursday walked out of the anti-BJP coalition in Bihar and said it will contest the assembly...

Manipur: Curfew continues, no fresh violence reported 03 Sep 2015 - 01:39 pm

IMPHAL: Curfew continued in Manipur's riot-hit Churachandpur district on Thursday, even as the ruling Congress-led government made fresh appeal to cross-section of the...

Iran's Khamenei backs parliamentary vote on nuclear deal with powers: state TV 03 Sep 2015 - 01:36 pm

ANKARA: Iran's Supreme Leader said on Thursday he backed a parliamentary vote on a historic nuclear deal reached with six major powers and...

At least 14 killed as boat overloaded with migrants capsizes off Malaysia 03 Sep 2015 - 01:16 pm

BY TRINNA LEONG KUALA LUMPUR: An overloaded wooden boat believed to be carrying dozens of Indonesian illegal immigrants sank off the coast of...

Protesting French farmers roll into Paris on tractors 03 Sep 2015 - 01:15 pm

Dozens of tractors converge to the rally point Place de la Nation during a farmer protest in Paris. PARIS: Over 1,000 tractors were...

Saudi Basic Industries cuts domestic rebar steel price 03 Sep 2015 - 01:09 pm

DUBAI: Saudi Basic Industries Corp said on Thursday it had cut its domestic retail price for rebar steel by 200 riyals ($53.3) per...

Bihar polls: SP quits Janata Parivar, to fight alone 03 Sep 2015 - 12:56 pm

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party on Thursday walked out of the Janata Parivar and decided to contest the Bihar elections on its own, a...

Uganda says 12 of its soldiers killed in Islamist attack in Somalia 03 Sep 2015 - 12:36 pm

KAMPALA: Twelve Ugandan soldiers who served as African Union peacekeepers were killed when militants attacked their base in Somalia this week, a Ugandan...

Troubled Dubai gold retailer seeks time to repay $136 mln debts 03 Sep 2015 - 12:32 pm

By Stanley Carvalho and Tom Arnold ABU DHABI/DUBAI: A Dubai-based gold and jewellery retailer that defaulted on loans worth about 500 million dirhams...

Press group seeks release of abducted journalist in Nigeria 03 Sep 2015 - 12:09 pm

LAGOS: A media rights group called Thursday for the immediate release of a senior Nigerian journalist kidnapped from her home in the restive...

More nations embrace cluster bomb ban despite new attacks - campaign group 03 Sep 2015 - 12:02 pm

LONDON: A growing number of countries are backing an international treaty banning the production, stockpiling and use of cluster bombs, and calling on...