World News Archive

A Pakistani prisoner has been badly beaten in an Indian jail in apparent revenge for a fatal attack on an Indian jailed for spying in Pakistan, whose death has led to an outpouring of anger.

KHARTOUM: More than 60 miners were killed in Sudan when the gold mine they were working in collapsed, a police spokesman has said.

hong kong: An inflatable rubber duck has been placed in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour.

libya: Saif al Islam, a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has appeared in court in Zintan, where he had been held since his capture by former rebels in 2011.

VIENNA: Leopold Engleitner, the oldest-known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, has died aged 107.

NORTH Korea has sentenced US citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years' hard labour for what it said were crimes against the state, a move that will likely see him used as a bargaining chip in talks with Washington.

ASKED during a television discussion this week whether the war in Afghanistan has been worth it, former UK Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram gave the forthright reply "of course".

OAKKAN: Police and troops have restored order in central Burma following a fresh outbreak of religious violence in which one man died.

MAKHACHKALA: A bomb left near a shopping mall exploded in the capital of Russia's Dagestan Republic, killing two teenagers yesterday.

WASHINGTON: The US Trade Representative's office has designated Ukraine a "foreign priority country," the worst label in its annual report on how well countries around the world protect US patents, copyrights and other forms of intellectual property rights.

President Vladimir Putin has dusted off another communist relic by restoring a labour medal introduced under Josef Stalin, despite denying he is taking Russia back to the USSR era.

German trade union Verdi has agreed a pay deal with Lufthansa for 33,000 cabin crew and ground staff across the airline group, averting another round of strikes.

BEIJING: China's top newspaper has warned some government officials were avoiding new President Xi Jinping's instructions to be frugal by taking banquets and other lavish displays underground, including hiding liquor in water bottles.

The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a building collapse killed 402 workers last week.