World

Helsinki: Finland ranked as the world's happiest country for the second year running while war-torn South Sudan sank to the least contented in...

LAHORE, Pakistan: A Pakistani court has sentenced a 22-year-old Czech model to eight years and eight months in prison on charges of drug...

BRUSSELS: Google was fined 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) on Wednesday for blocking rival online search advertisers, the third large European Union antitrust...

Pune: Ganesh Bhalerao is a cartoonist hoping to go viral in the battle to secure Prime Minister Narendra Modi's re-election when India votes...

MOGADISHU: An air strike near the Somali town of Afgoye killed four people, a relative of one of the victims said on Tuesday....

LONDON/NEW DELHI:  Fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, wanted by Indian authorities over a $2 billion loan fraud at state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB)...

Mumbai: India's Jet Airways was fighting multiple crises Wednesday after grounding six planes, leaving it with only a third of its fleet flying,...

Berlin: The European Union has done a lot to accommodate Britain over Brexit and can go no further, European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker...

MAPUTO/HARARE: Mozambique started three days of national mourning on Wednesday after powerful cyclone winds and flooding killed hundreds of people and left a...

LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May will request a short delay to Brexit in a letter to the European Union on Wednesday, the...

BEIRUT: A Lebanese-Canadian dual national has been arrested in Beirut on suspicion of spying for Israel, Lebanese authorities said Tuesday. According to a...

Jerusalem:  A new ad with an elegantly dressed minister using "fascist" perfume drew online outrage Tuesday, the latest in a social media war...

Vilnius:  Centre-right Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said Tuesday he would consider moving Lithuania's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the disputed city...

WASHINGTON:  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted the change to the U.S.'s designation of the occupied Golan Heights in an annual human rights...

ANKARA:  Japan will send two members of Self-Defense Forces to a multinational non-UN peacekeeping force in Egypt in mid-April, local media reported. According...

Brussels: European Union governments are exasperated by British dithering over quitting the bloc but have little appetite for pushing it out on schedule...

BRUSSELS: Some 40 people were preventively evacuated from a building near to European Union headquarters in Brussels after a bomb threat was sent...

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron has set a new personal record for talking during a public appearance by debating for more than eight...