By Mfuneko Toyana JOHANNESBURG: A rapid roll-out of fibre optic broadband in upmarket South African neighbourhoods has caught the attention of Internet video...
By Mfuneko Toyana JOHANNESBURG: A rapid roll-out of fibre optic broadband in upmarket South African neighbourhoods has caught the attention of Internet video...
JERUSALEM: Israeli police beefed up their numbers in Jerusalem Friday, barring young men from prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque site on what Islamist...
NAIROBI: Kenya's education ministry ordered all schools to shut Friday because of a three-week teachers' strike over pay in the east African country....
SRINAGAR: Indian soldiers shot dead five suspected rebels Friday near the heavily militarised border in Kashmir as they tried to sneak in from...
By Noah Browning MARIB, Yemen: As Gulf Arab troops push through Yemen's central desert into the mountains that lead to the capital held...
MUMBAI: The head of India's central bank on Friday warned Asia's third-largest economy against trying to grow too fast, pointing to the plight...
MAKKAH: About 1,000 Asian pilgrims were evacuated early on Thursday from their hotel in the holy city of Makkah, hit by a fire...
Mohit Dubey VARANASI: If you thought a public expression of regret by none other than the prime minister and a probe ordered by...
KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose declassified by the state government on Friday contain...
KOLKATA: Dubbing as "historic" the release of 64 files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose by the West Bengal government, his family on Friday...
Representatinal image By Katy Migiro NAIROBI: Two new mothers who were detained and abused in a Kenyan hospital for not paying their maternity...
Pakistani soldiers arrive to take position outside a Pakistan Air Force base after an attack by militants in Peshawar. ? PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistani...
BRUSSELS: Airlines have to pay passengers compensation when flights are cancelled or delayed due to unforeseen technical problems, the European Union’s top court...
WASHINGTON: Democrats in the U.S. Senate blocked a last-ditch effort by Republicans on Thursday to add new conditions before President Barack Obama can...
Ships are seen in the street after an earthquake hit areas of central Chile, in Coquimbo city, north of Santiago, Chile. By Felipe...
RIYADH: A Saudi official source has expressed the kingdom's strong condemnation of Israeli occupation authorities' violation of the sanctity of Al Aqsa Holy...
Members of the presidential guard look for protesters in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. PARIS: The leader of a coup in Burkina Faso said on...
Scene of a Nigerian fuel tanker explosion. Approximately 100 people were killed in the accident. BY DENIS DUMO JUBA: More than 100 people...