Beijing: Footage of a 92-year-old Chinese woman reportedly kept for years by her son in a pigsty has incited an online firestorm, as...
Beijing: Footage of a 92-year-old Chinese woman reportedly kept for years by her son in a pigsty has incited an online firestorm, as...
Yangon: Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start consultation for verification and repatriation of refugees, said a statement of the Myanmar Foreign Ministry...
Colombo: Several districts in Sri Lanka would face severe drought conditions in the coming three weeks as very little rain was expected, the...
Colombo: Sri Lanka yesterday tightened the rules governing the around one million tuk-tuks -- rickety three-wheel taxis -- on its streets after road...
New Delhi: The replacement of Mahatma Gandhi's photographs with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's in Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC)'s annual calendar and diary...
There is no denying that from time to time anti-Semitism raises its ugly head in the UK, as it does in many other...
Guwahati: India’s army chief yesterday said that more "surgical strikes" would be carried out in Pakistan"if the situation warrants", local media reported. "Surgical...
Beijing: China has a range of economic, diplomatic and military options to retaliate if the US and South Korea proceed with deployment of...
Ho Chi Minh City: John Kerry began his swansong tour as US Secretary of State in Vietnam on Friday, defending Washington's 'pivot' to...
Washington: US President Barack Obama took the controversial step of easing some economic sanctions against Sudan Friday, trying to improve relations with a...
Brasília: Brazilian police said they launched a major search for evidence Friday in a big fraud probe targeting an ex-minister of President Michel...
Bamako: France's top diplomat Jean-Marc Ayrault struck a defiant tone at a summit on Friday with foreign ministers from across Africa as he...
International investigators have said for the first time that they suspect President Bashar al-Assad and his brother are responsible for the use of...
United Nations, United States: Israel's UN ambassador on Friday raised concern over what he said were moves at the Security Council to adopt...
Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took the country's lawmakers to task Friday over an "ugly" brawl in parliament during a vote on...
Budapest: Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday he has defied Brussels by reintroducing the systematic detention of migrants arriving in the...
Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday shrugged off the strikingly divergent positions his cabinet picks have taken on Russia, torture, and a...
YOLA, Nigeria: Four suicide bombers killed 15 people in a crowded market in the town of Madagali in Nigeria’s northeastern Adamawa state on...
