World News Archive

  • Turkey blames Syrians for fatal car bombings
    Monday 13 May 2013

    Turkey believes fighters loyal to Syrian President Bashar al Assad were behind two car bombings that killed 46 people in a Turkish border town where thousands of Syrian refugees live.

  • Kidnap women speak of their relief
    Monday 13 May 2013

    Three women rescued from a house in Ohio a decade after they disappeared have said they are happy to be home and pleaded for privacy so they can heal and reconnect with their families.

  • Syria talks ruled out for this month
    Sunday 12 May 2013

    A Russian official said yesterday it would not be possible for an international conference aimed at setting up talks between the Syrian government and opposition to be organised before the end of May.

  • Hundreds protest against pollution
    Sunday 12 May 2013

    Police stood by as residents marched peacefully along a busy street in the city centre before gathering at an intersection, chanting and holding signs protesting against the factory.

  • Former dictator guilty of genocide
    Sunday 12 May 2013

    A Guatemalan court has convicted former dictator Efrain Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity, with a jail term of 80 years, in the first such sentence handed down against a former Latin American leader.

  • Tests clear three of danger virus
    Sunday 12 May 2013

    Three people who came into contact with France's only confirmed case of coronavirus have tested negative for the SARS-like disease, with results pending on two others, health minister Marisol Touraine said yesterday in Lille.

  • Panel to speed up aid donations
    Sunday 12 May 2013

    Diplomats from donor nations met in Haiti to learn about a new government panel set up to speed up the release of billions of dollars in aid.

  • Boxer and bird team up for TV
    Sunday 12 May 2013

    Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will star as a cartoon detective, with a pigeon as his sidekick, in a new animated series, the US cable network Adult Swim has confirmed.

  • Presidency bid by nuclear negotiator
    Sunday 12 May 2013

    Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, has registered to run for president in the Islamic Republic's June 14 election, the state news agency IRNA said yesterday.

  • Test of judiciary as retrial of Mubarak and allies begins
    Sunday 12 May 2013

    Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was back in court yesterday for a retrial on charges of complicity in the murder of protesters, reopening a case that has shown the problems of the judicial system in post-revolutionary Egypt.

  • Bomb attacks leave many dead in Turkey
    Sunday 12 May 2013

    At least 40 people were been killed and another 100 wounded yesterday in explosions in a Turkish town close to the Syrian border.

  • Pakistan: caught between democracy and jihadism
    Sunday 12 May 2013

    AS elections go it, should have been a time of celebration.

  • Rescue in Dhaka after 17 days under factory ruins
    Saturday 11 May 2013

    RESCUERS have pulled a woman from the rubble of a Bangladesh garment factory 17 days after its collapse.

  • Three popes inside the Vatican
    Saturday 11 May 2013

    vatican city: There were three popes inside the Vatican's walls at the same time.

  • Protesters charge women at the Wall
    Saturday 11 May 2013

    Israeli police held back thousands of ultra- conservative Jews who tried to drive liberal women worshippers from Judaism's sacred Western Wall, marking a shift in the authorities' handling of a long-running religious schism.

  • Suicide bombers target soldiers
    Saturday 11 May 2013
  • British Embassy withdraws staff
    Saturday 11 May 2013

    TRIPOLI: The British Embassy is withdrawing some of its staff from Libya due to concerns over political uncertainty and the risk of clashes between armed groups in the capital.

  • Khan could hold balance of power after poll
    Saturday 11 May 2013

    Former Pakistan cricket star Imran Khan's party enjoyed a late surge of support on the eve of a landmark election, raising the prospect of a fragmented parliament that could lead to weeks of haggling to form a coalition government.

  • Four found guilty in drug money trial
    Saturday 11 May 2013

    A federal jury in Texas has convicted the brother of two alleged leaders of Mexico's Los Zetas drug cartel of setting up a racehorse enterprise to launder millions of dollars in illicit profits.

  • India's railway minister resigns
    Saturday 11 May 2013

    NEW DELHI: India's railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has resigned, dealing a fresh blow to the scandal-weakened Government as it limps toward elections at the end of a paralysed parliament.

  • Cemetery accepts body of suspect
    Saturday 11 May 2013

    RICHMOND: Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a Muslim cemetery in Virginia, after authorities spent a week searching for a final resting place for his remains.

  • Probe into claim Chinese film director has seven children
    Friday 10 May 2013

    Chinese authorities have begun investigating reports that Zhang Yimou, one of China's best-known movie directors, has seven children in violation of strict family planning rules.

  • Cleveland kidnap accused appears in court for first time after women freed
    Friday 10 May 2013

    THE man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them in captivity for a decade has appeared in public for the first time.

  • Islamist leader to be executed
    Friday 10 May 2013

    DHAKA: A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal has sentenced an Islamist party leader to death.

  • 46 police officers killed in Nigeria
    Friday 10 May 2013

    ONITSHA: Nigerian militants killed 46 police officers in an ambush in the north central state of Nassarawa this week, police confirmed yesterday.

  • Iraq will refuse militants entry
    Friday 10 May 2013

    baghdad: Iraq's central Government has said it will not accept armed groups entering its territory as Kurdish militants began withdrawing from Turkey.

  • Berlusconi may face new trial
    Friday 10 May 2013

    NAPLES: An Italian judge is to decide whether Silvio Berlusconi should face another trial, on charges of bribing a senator.

  • Island limbers up for PM's visit
    Friday 10 May 2013

    PORT MORESBY: Traditional dancers in Papua New Guinea rehearsed a performance ahead of the arrival of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard at Jackson International Airport yesterday.

  • Bus gender segregation to be outlawed
    Friday 10 May 2013

    JERUSALEM: Back-of-the-bus seating for women on public transport in Israel will be outlawed soon, its justice minister said yesterday, pledging sweeping legislation to stop Jewish religious zealots trying to enforce gender segregation in many spheres of life.

  • US looks to a Syria without Assad
    Friday 10 May 2013

    ROME: The United States still believes that Syrian President Bashar al Assad would not be part of a transitional government in the country, US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday.