MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s new president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would pursue friend and foe alike in a crackdown on…

MAE SAI: A hermit in tiger-print robes, animal sacrifice by hill-tribes and rounds of Buddhist prayer: the physical efforts to…

KUALA LUMPUR: Qantas Airways and Hong Kong Airlines listed among the world’s top 15 punctual airlines in OAG’s On-time…

JAKARTA: Indonesian security forces are behind the unlawful killing of at least 95 people in Papua since 2010, with…

TOKYO: Japan’s 84-year-old Emperor Akihito cancelled his official duties on Monday after being taken ill, the country’s top government spokesman…

SYDNEY: Dozens of supermarket staff have suffered abuse as two major Australian grocery chains struggled to impose a ban on…

JALALABAD, Afghanistan: Unidentified gunmen beheaded three men and torched a boys’ school in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan late on…

PARIS: France paid homage yesterday to Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor best known for legalising abortion in the 1970s as…