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Child taken from second Roma family in Ireland handed back 24 Oct 2013 - 12:22 am

DUBLIN: Irish police who took a child away from a second Roma family overnight have since handed him back, it emerged yesterday. The...

Drunk-driving confessor on YouTube jailed for over 6 years 24 Oct 2013 - 12:22 am

WASHINGTON: The young Ohio man whose remorseful video claim of responsiblity for a fatal drunk-driving accident went viral on YouTube was sentenced yesterday...

Couple jailed for rape, trafficking of deaf-mute Pakistani girl 24 Oct 2013 - 12:22 am

LONDON: A British court jailed an elderly couple yesterday after a deaf and mute girl was trafficked from Pakistan to work as a...

NY tightens rules for child models 24 Oct 2013 - 12:21 am

NEW YORK CITY: New York has passed into law tough new rules governing how child models can work, hailed by campaigners as a...

White House staffer sacked over tweets 24 Oct 2013 - 12:15 am

WASHINGTON: A White House national security official has been dismissed after being identified as the source of tweets insulting the administration that were...

Teaching a lesson 24 Oct 2013 - 12:13 am

Suspended from their jobs, high school teachers chant “we are people, not numbers” during a protest in front of the Greek Parliament yesterday.

Russia to boycott Greenpeace ship court hearings 24 Oct 2013 - 12:12 am

Suspended from their jobs, high school teachers chant “we are people, not numbers” during a protest in front of the Greek Parliament yesterday. ...

Pope banishes German ‘luxury bishop’ 24 Oct 2013 - 12:12 am

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis yesterday banished a German Roman Catholic prelate known as the “luxury bishop” for spending ¤31m of Church funds on...

French paper stands by US spying report 24 Oct 2013 - 12:12 am

PARIS: The United States has branded reports it spied on millions of French citizens as inaccurate but the newspaper behind them said yesterday...

Debate hots up in Netherlands over controversial Christmas figure 24 Oct 2013 - 12:11 am

THE HAGUE: A Facebook petition supporting a Dutch Christmas character called “Black Pete” yesterday hit a million ‘likes’, revealing the liberal nation’s attachment...

Some fires still raging in Australia 24 Oct 2013 - 12:11 am

MOUNT VICTORIA, Australia: Firefighters in Australia battled hot, dry winds and soaring temperatures yesterday as new blazes were whipped up in a week-long...

Berlusconi to stand trial over corruption 24 Oct 2013 - 12:11 am

NAPLES: Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was ordered to stand trial for corruption yesterday, in a fresh legal blow to the centre-right...

Two Chadian soldiers, civilian killed in Mali attack 24 Oct 2013 - 12:11 am

BAMAKO: Two Chadian soldiers and a civilian were killed when militants attacked army positions in northern Mali yesterday, an army source from the...

QFI pre-WISE meetings to mull cross-cultural ventures 23 Oct 2013 - 02:49 pm

DOHA: Qatar Foundation International (QFI) and its partners will host two pre-conference meetings focussed on cross-cultural collaboration in education ahead of the 2013...

Egypt says not interested in Israeli gas as plans LNG imports 23 Oct 2013 - 02:32 pm

CAIRO: Egypt is not interested in importing gas via pipeline from Israel and instead is focusing on a plan to import liquefied natural...

Holocaust memorial app launches in Germany 23 Oct 2013 - 02:25 pm

BERLIN: Smartphones in Germany are now delivering messages from the past, with a new app launched Wednesday that shows the names and pictures...

Philippines' Aquino confident of ending Muslim rebellion 23 Oct 2013 - 02:23 pm

Philippines' President Benigno Aquino III delivers a speech during the Annual Presidential Forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) at...

China reports second H7N9 bird flu case in October 23 Oct 2013 - 02:19 pm

BEIJING: China confirmed a new human case of the deadly H7N9 strain of bird flu on Wednesday, the second infection reported in October...