Honolulu: A federal judge in Texas yesterday issued a court order barring enforcement of an Obama administration policy seeking to extend anti-discrimination protections...
Honolulu: A federal judge in Texas yesterday issued a court order barring enforcement of an Obama administration policy seeking to extend anti-discrimination protections...
Bogota: Colombia's National Liberation Army, which has been fighting the government for more than five decades, yesterday freed a businessman it had held...
Los Angeles: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Sing” loomed large at the multiplexes over the New Year’s holiday, racking up the...
LONDON: Three film production companies including Netflix are interested in making a warts-and-all screen dramatisation of Nigel Farage’s insurgent Brexit campaign, according to...
Cairo: Egyptian authorities on Sunday arrested a senior judge as they press a rare investigation into corruption at a top court, judicial sources...
KINSHASA: The second largest country in Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo is blessed with oil, timber, diamonds and gold but cursed with violence,...
Berlin: Police in the German city of Cologne said Sunday a large mobilisation of officers on New Year's Eve prevented major disturbances after...
London: Queen Elizabeth II missed a New Year's Day church service on Sunday because of a lingering "heavy cold" that also forced her...
BEIJING: Heavy smog in northern China on Sunday caused hundreds of flights to be cancelled and highways to shut, disrupting the first day...
Lausanne: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has rejected a call by the Kuwaiti government to temporarily lift a 14-month sports ban while the...
YENAGOA, Nigeria: A group of former Nigerian militants said on Sunday it had lost confidence in the president’s efforts to end attacks on...
Istanbul: Thirty-nine people were killed in Istanbul on Sunday when a gunman went on a shooting rampage in an upmarket nightclub as revellers...
BANJUL: Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh accused West African regional body ECOWAS of declaring war, after it said it was putting forces on alert...
BEIJING: A court in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui has handed out sentences of up to 20 years in jail for 67...
Paris: A man who tried to halt the rampage of the truck driver who mowed down 86 people in Nice last year was...
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has detained three people and is searching for three others in connection with the December abduction of a Shiite cleric,...
MADRID: Around 1,100 sub-Saharan African migrants tried to cross into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Sunday by storming a...
Kinshasa: The new year in one of Africa's most troubled countries began in a burst of optimism Sunday after rival groups agreed a...
