World News Archive

  • Russia and Japan in peace treaty bid
    Tuesday 30 April 2013

    MOSCOW: The leaders of Russia and Japan have agreed to increase efforts to resolve a territorial dispute over four Pacific islands that has prevented them from signing a treaty to officially end the Second World War.

  • Organ gang behind illegal transplants
    Tuesday 30 April 2013

    A KOSOVO court has convicted five men of involvement in an organ trafficking ring that performed at least 23 illegal kidney transplants.

  • Devastating impact of austerity
    Monday 29 April 2013

    Austerity programmes are causing a public health disaster across Europe and North America, experts warn.

  • Libya to ease Egypt's oil crisis
    Monday 29 April 2013

    TRIPOLI: Libya is to ship oil to neighbouring Egypt on soft credit terms, as Cairo struggles to pay for energy imports and avoid fuel shortages.

  • Wall women in fresh challenge
    Monday 29 April 2013

    JERUSALEM: Women seeking equal prayer rights at the Western Wall are planning a further challenge to Jewish Orthodox tradition at the site after a court ruling bolstered their cause.

  • $40bn trial over Jackson's death
    Monday 29 April 2013

    Almost four years after his death, the life and demise of Michael Jackson is to play out again in a $40 billion (£26bn) civil trial pitting the singer's family against the organisers of a musical comeback that never happened.

  • 'Sectarian' TV stations suspended
    Monday 29 April 2013

    Iraq has suspended the licences of satellite news network Al Jazeera and nine other TV channels, accusing them of inciting violence through their coverage of recent sectarian clashes.

  • German Greens turn left on tax
    Monday 29 April 2013

    BERLIN: Germany's Greens lurched to the left at a party congress in Berlin over the weekend, endorsing a "soak-the-rich" campaign for new taxes.

  • Obama mocks a fringe movement
    Monday 29 April 2013

    US President Barack Obama poked fun at the media, his critics and himself at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, where journalists and celebrities mixed with the Washington elite.

  • Abe calls for new national spirit
    Monday 29 April 2013

    TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for the anniversary of the restoration of Japan's post-war sovereignty on April 28, 1952 to become a day for renewal of a sense of national determination.

  • Policemen shot outside Italian premier's office
    Monday 29 April 2013

    TWO Italian police officers and a passerby were shot and wounded outside the prime minister's office in Rome as a new government was being sworn in just a mile away.

  • Leader well after minor stroke
    Monday 29 April 2013

    ALGIERS: Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was progressing well yesterday, according to his doctor, a day after he was transferred to France for medical tests.

  • Court may restrict race-based places
    Monday 29 April 2013

    washington: The US Supreme Court may issue a ruling to restrict the use of race by universities in deciding who is awarded places.

  • China removes driving privileges
    Monday 29 April 2013

    BEIJING: China's new leadership is seeking to dismantle a system of privilege that has allowed the drivers of military vehicles to do as they please on the roads.

  • Thousands of Britons see Cyprus cash frozen
    Monday 29 April 2013

    THOUSANDS of British people with large deposits in the cash-starved Bank of Cyprus were among customers who saw their money frozen and turned into shares.

  • Collapsed factory fire hampers search for survivors
    Monday 29 April 2013

    Fire broke out yesterday in a garment factory that collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital, hampering attempts to find any survivors of a disaster that has killed 377 people.

  • Dreamliner takes flight once more
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    A Boeing 787 flew from Ethiopia to Kenya yesterday, the first commercial flight for a Dreamliner since air safety authorities grounded the planes after incidents with smouldering batteries on two planes in January.

  • Bird flu claims another victim
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    China yesterday reported its first case of H7N9 bird flu in the southern province of Hunan, the latest sign the virus that has killed 23 people in the country is continuing to spread.

  • Scientist freed from US custody
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    An Iranian scientist held for more than a year in California on charges of violating US sanctions arrived in Iran yesterday after being freed in what was said to be a humanitarian gesture.

  • Jailed US citizen will face trial
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    North Korea said yesterday that a Korean-American tourist, jailed there since late last year, will face trial for "committing crimes" against the North, a move that could stoke tensions further with the US.

  • Taliban: spring offensive on way
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    The Taliban in Afghanistan says it will start a new spring offensive of suicide bombings and "insider" attacks on foreign military bases and diplomatic areas.

  • Sarkozys lavished gifts on Obama
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife Carla Bruni, left, were clearly taken with US president Barack Obama and his family back in 2011.

  • Rebels lay siege to military air base
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    Activists have reported intense clashes in a north-west province as rebels attacked a military air base, resulting in casualties on both sides.

  • Four held over factory collapse
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    TWO factory bosses and two engineers were arrested in Bangladesh yesterday over the collapse of a building where cheap clothes were made for Western brands.

  • NEW NATION ... OLD HORRORS
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    Lizard bites, guinea worm infections, malaria: the ailments and stream of patients is endless.

  • US refuses to rule out military force in Syria
    Saturday 27 April 2013

    THE US has not ruled out the use of military force in Syria should it be determined that Bashar al Assad's regime has used chemical weapons.

  • 38 die in blaze at Russian hospital
    Saturday 27 April 2013

    Thirty-eight people were killed in a fire at a psychiatric hospital near Moscow.

  • South Sudan's rebels surrender
    Saturday 27 April 2013

    An estimated 3000 South Sudanese rebels have surrendered and accepted an amnesty ending a long-standing insurgency in the oil-producing north of the country.

  • New case of bird flu is discovered
    Saturday 27 April 2013

    BEIJING: Chinese authorities have discovered the first case of a new strain of bird flu in the province of Fujian, signalling the spread of the virus which has killed 23 people.

  • Boston bomber taken from hospital to prison
    Saturday 27 April 2013

    Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved from hospital to a prison at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, the US Marshals Service said.