World News Archive

  • 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.

  • Pivotal time for Pakistan as country goes to polls
    Friday 10 May 2013

    IF the findings of a recent British Council survey on Pakistan's youth are anything to go by, then the country faces a rocky political road ahead.

  • Six killed as boat hits Italian port's control tower
    Thursday 9 May 2013

    SIX people were killed and three are missing after a container ship crashed into a control tower in the northern Italian port of Genoa.

  • UAE citizens held over church blast
    Thursday 9 May 2013

    DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates said three of its citizens had been arrested in Tanzania in connection with the bombing of a church that killed two people and wounded six.

  • Putin's warning on Afghan threat
    Thursday 9 May 2013

    MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said Russia must strengthen defences in the south and work with central Asian allies to protect itself against extremist violence from Afghanistan.

  • Kurdish militants start withdrawal
    Thursday 9 May 2013

    ANKARA: Kurdish militants began their withdrawal from Turkish territory yesterday, the co-leader of the pro-Kurdish BDP Party Gultan Kisanak said.

  • Fight over death verdict
    Thursday 9 May 2013

    The parents of a US engineer found dead in Singapore last year, intend to prove at a coroner's inquiry he was murdered over a project they say involved the illegal transfer of sensitive technology to China.

  • Arrests made in diamond heist case
    Thursday 9 May 2013

    Police have detained 31 people over the heist of £32 million in diamonds – one of the biggest jewellery robberies in history – after co-ordinated raids in Belgium, France and Switzerland.

  • Pilots shot in ambush
    Thursday 9 May 2013

    Suspected al Qaeda militants have shot dead three Yemeni airforce pilots going to an airbase jointly used with US forces to launch attacks on the group.

  • France finds first coronavirus case
    Thursday 9 May 2013

    PARIS: France has identified its first case of a new strain of coronavirus emerging from the Middle East in a person recently returned from the United Arab Emirates.

  • Activist arrested by Chinese police
    Thursday 9 May 2013

    BEIJING: Chinese police have detained an activist agitating for officials to disclose their assets on subversion charges, under-lining the limits of an anti-corruption push by Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured.