A file photo of President Maithripala Sirisena with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Photo: AFP Colombo: The US warned Sri Lanka on Tuesday that...
A file photo of President Maithripala Sirisena with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Photo: AFP Colombo: The US warned Sri Lanka on Tuesday that...
TAIPEI: A T$50m ($1.54 million or 0.97 million pounds) masterpiece by an 17th century Italian artist was back on display in the Taiwan...
Members of the Patel community display placards as they attend a protest in Ahmedabad, yesterday. Ahmedabad: At least half a million protesters paralysed...
Activists from the right-wing organisation, Hindu Sena, burn posters of Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz durng a protest in New Delhi, yesterday....
A man passes by the scene of a gas tanker explosion in Herat, yesterday. Herat: 11 people, mostly children, were killed in a...
High waves batter the seashore at Aoshima beach in Miyazaki, Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, yesterday. Tokyo: Typhoon Goni slammed into the Japanese...
Nepalese mourners pay respects to Senior Superintendent of Police Laxman Neupane at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, yesterday. Kathmandu: Protesters torched homes and...
A Syrian Kurdish migrant climbs over the fence on the Hungarian-Serbian border near Asotthalom, Hungary, yesterday. Hungary’s government has started to construct a...
Lebanese protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against the ongoing trash crisis, in front of the seat of the government in central Beirut...
Iranian director Majid Majidi Tehran: The award-winning director of Iran’s most expensive ever film, Muhammad, says he hopes it will improve Islam’s “violent...
Rebel forces hold a position near the frontline in the Al Zahra area on the northwestern outskirts of Aleppo, where opposition fighters have...
The picture shows a person suspected of forming part of a network that recruited Islamic State fighters is led away by Spanish police...
LONDON: Floods, landslides and a cyclone have made at least 180,000 people in Bangladesh homeless, with thousands living in makeshift shelters on river...
PARIS: Libya's foreign minister on Tuesday renewed a call for the lifting of an arms embargo and for international air strikes to help...
Six killed in northeast Nigeria (AFP: photo) KANO: A child bomber killed six people and wounded dozens on Tuesday outside a bus station...
NEW DELHI: Overwhelmed Indian officials have cancelled plans to fill a handful of menial government jobs after being flooded with 75,000 applications --...
Guwahati: Hundreds of rare rhinos and other animals are fleeing flooding in India's northeast, raising fears of a rise in poaching during the...
An Eurotunnel freight shuttle enters the Channel tunnel in Coquelles, near Calais, northern France, July 21, 2015. BY ESTELLE SHIRBON CANTERBURY: A Sudanese...
