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SEOUL:  Move over Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. Seoul is emerging as Asia's new fashion showcase, with the world's top luxury firms seeking...

  BY FRANCESCO GUARASCIO BRUSSELS: The EU executive has drawn up a new set of national quotas under which Germany will take in more...

GUWAHATI:  A legislator from Assam, Gopinath Das, has been booked for rape following a complaint from a domestic help, police said on Monday.  ...

  LUCKNOW:  Samajwadi Party leader and legislator Mitrasen Yadav died on Monday after a prolonged illness. He was 85. A legislator from Bikapur constituency...

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday allowed National Investigation Agency (NIA) plea to conduct the lie detector test of Showkat Ahmed Bhat,...

Women raise slogans during the funeral of the three youths killed in the Machil fake encounter at Rafiabad in Baramulla district of Jammu...

  LUCKNOW:  The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) was remote-controlling the Narendra Modi government, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati has said. The fact that...

  ISLAMABAD: The police needs to be empowered if checks on seminaries are expected to yield any real results, a Pakistani daily said Monday...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Economy Minster Sigmar Gabriel at a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin. BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel...

French President Francois Hollande attends his news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. PARIS: France will launch surveillance flights over Islamic...

  HYDERABAD: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday left for a 10-day visit to China to attract investment and also to address...

By Kavita Bajeli-Datt DILI,  Timor-Leste:  Over 1.3 million people die of tobacco consumption in Southeast Asia every year, with the region consisting of...

This television screen grab shows UCAV Burraq launching the laser-guided missile Burq. ISLAMABAD:  Pakistan's military on Monday said it had for the first...

A volunteers sorts donated clothes for arriving refugees in Dortmund, Germany, yesterday, where thousands of migrants and refugees arrive by trains. BERLIN: The...

DHAKA: Bangladesh police said Monday they are seeking to arrest national cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife for allegedly beating their 11-year-old maid...

Kabul: The Taliban have condemned the killing of 13 minority Hazaras as a plot to “breed fault lines”, in an apparent dig at...

Migrants sit inside a van after being pulled over by police on the highway near Gyor, Hungary, yesterday. The refugee crisis in Europe...

SANA’A: Jets belonging to a Saudi-led coalition killed at least 20 people at a wake in northern Yemen yesterday, local tribesmen said, as...