AMERICAN Marines and Afghan soldiers yesterday launched the first offensive since US President Barack Obama announced a troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent...
AN overcrowded passenger boat capsized in northern Bangladesh yesterday after being hit by a small ferry, leaving at least 46 people dead, police said. Rescuers recovered 46 bodies from the capsized boat in the...
IT'S an abandoned coal mining site in a depressed corner of northern France that was pummeled by two world wars. Soon, a branch of the Louvre Museum will rise up on this unlikely site. Work is to start soon on...
TWENTY-FIVE NATO allies promised yesterday to send 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan, backing US President Barack Obama's new war strategy and stepping up international efforts to defeat the Taliban. While significant,...
A SPOKESMAN for Somalia's al-Shabaab rebels denied yesterday that the group was behind a suicide bombing at a medical graduation ceremony that killed at least 22 people, including three government ministers. Doctors,...
ROMAN Polanski began his house arrest on US$4.5 million bail yesterday, rolling into the luxury resort of Gstaad, Switzerland, in a police convoy to a warm welcome from his wife and children at his Alpine chalet. ...
AN Iranian nuclear official said yesterday the country will not answer to the United Nations nuclear watchdog about its plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment sites beyond the barest minimum required under the international...
MILITANTS stormed a mosque frequented by Pakistani army officials, killing at least 35 worshippers during prayers yesterday as they sprayed gunfire and threw grenades before blowing themselves up, officials said. ...
NEPAL'S top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks yesterday and held a Cabinet meeting amid the frigid, thin air of Mount Everest to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week's international...
THE United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia, a senior UN climate official said yesterday. ...
COCA-COLA Co said yesterday that it will eliminate a major greenhouse gas in its new vending machines and coolers, raising the bar for climate friendly refrigeration in the food and beverage industry. Coke's Chief...
CHRISTIE'S is confident the recession is well and truly over in the world of fine art, with a record old masters sale in London next week that includes important works by Rembrandt, Raphael and Il Domenichino. The...
AN overcrowded ferry carrying nearly 100 passengers sank in a Bangladesh river after colliding with a motor launch today, killing at least 38 people just a week after another ferry disaster killed 87. The ferry...
HONDURAS will issue a postage stamp honoring Roberto Micheletti, the politician who has led the country since a coup ousted President Manuel Zelaya in June, the post office said yesterday. Micheletti, whose de...
US President Barack Obama urged corporate America yesterday to help tackle the nation's highest unemployment in 26 years but also hinted at federal tax credits and aid to states to ease jobless woes. "There's...
A suicide bomber disguised as a woman has attacked a graduation ceremony in Somalia, turning a rare reason to celebrate into carnage that killed at least 22 people - including medical students, doctors and three government...
GENEROSITY doesn't always pay during the festive season, with an Australian survey showing more than 825,000 gifts will go straight into the garbage bin this Christmas because their recipients just hate them. The...
AT least five women among 57 people massacred in an attack on an election convoy in the southern Philippines last week may have been raped, police said yesterday. The forensic findings from the November 23 carnage,...
NEW York lawmakers rejected a bill that would have allowed same-sex marriage, a stunning outcome in a state that was the site of one of the gay rights movement's defining moments. Opponents of gay marriage said...
THE House Homeland Security Committee chairman said yesterday Congress must question those involved in the White House security breach, adding that the United States was fortunate it did not turn into "a night of horror." ...
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