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Sexism row breaks out over British passport design 04 Nov 2015 - 09:00 am

New UK passport design features just two women London: A new British passport design provoked a sexism row when it was unveiled on...

Obama says 2016 hopefuls will get serious 04 Nov 2015 - 08:54 am

Washington: Barack Obama says the plethora of candidates vying to succeed him as US president will be forced to exit "silly season" and...

Russian FM to meet UN Syria envoy amid diplomatic push 04 Nov 2015 - 08:42 am

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with the UN's Syria envoy in Moscow on Wednesday as...

Iran arrests Lebanese-American for 'intelligence ties': state TV 04 Nov 2015 - 08:39 am

Nezar Zaka Tehran: Iran has arrested a Lebanese-American on suspicion of having links to the US intelligence community, state television reported Tuesday, but...

Third teen arrested over cyber attack on UK's TalkTalk 04 Nov 2015 - 08:37 am

London: British police said Tuesday they had arrested a third teenager in connection with a cyber attack on Internet and telephone provider TalkTalk...

Russia: impolite to begin U.N. chief race without Ukraine, others 04 Nov 2015 - 12:42 am

Vitaly Churkin By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS: Russia said on Tuesday it does not want to offend Ukraine and other recently elected United...

Spurred by Myanmar radicals, Thai Buddhists push for state religion status 04 Nov 2015 - 12:16 am

Buddhist monks collect alms in a village outside Nong Khai, Thailand, in September. Some Buddhist groups are pushing for the next Thai Constitution...

Rare cyclone batters Yemen, thousands flee homes 04 Nov 2015 - 12:02 am

CAIRO: A cyclone with hurricane-force winds made landfall on Yemen's Arabian Sea coast on Tuesday, flooding the country's fifth-largest city Mukalla and sending...

Russia stance on Assad suggests divergence with Iran 04 Nov 2015 - 12:00 am

Syrian refugees walk at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, Nov 1, 2015 Muhammad...

Comment: Assam again on the edge 04 Nov 2015 - 12:00 am

By Amitava Mukherjee Six months before the Assam assembly elections, there may be another bout of social unrest if the Tarun Gogoi government...

Arab League ,European Union sign cooperation protocol 04 Nov 2015 - 12:00 am

Cairo: The Arab League and the EU have signed a cooperation protocol to start the second phase of a project that seeks to...

18 Angolan activists arrested: Lawyer 04 Nov 2015 - 12:00 am

Representative image Luanda: At least 18 young Angolan activists were arrested at a rally in support of a group of anti-government protestors detained...

Turkey hits Kurd rebels, cracks down on Erdogan rivals 04 Nov 2015 - 12:00 am

Ankara:Turkey cracked down on rivals of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday and launched air strikes against Kurdish rebels, clearly signalling a return...

Iranian commander killed in Syria: state media 04 Nov 2015 - 12:00 am

Tehran: A senior officer in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards unit has been killed in Syria, the fourth Iranian commander to die there in...

From Libya to El Nino, U.N. experts warn: there's worse to come 04 Nov 2015 - 12:00 am

By Tom Miles GENEVA: A group of U.N. experts tasked with forecasting the next disasters likely to require billions of dollars in humanitarian...

Twitter trades stars for hearts, favorites for likes 04 Nov 2015 - 12:00 am

Washington: Twitter on Tuesday retired its star button that users click to "favorite" a post and replaced it with a heart which is...

Surviving attacks, Brazil's Levy aims to stay for austerity plan 04 Nov 2015 - 12:00 am

By Alonso Soto BRASILIA: When he became finance minister 10 months ago, Joaquim Levy was an uncomfortable fit in Brazil's left-leaning government -...