CAIRO: An Egyptian court Sunday sentenced 56 people to prison terms of between seven and 10 years over the deaths…

Beijing favourite Lam chosen as new chief executive in vote seen by activists as a sham HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s…

SINGAPORE: French President Francois Hollande arrived yesterday in Singapore, the first leg in the final foreign tour of his five-year…

LONDON: The British government said yesterday that its security services must have access to encrypted messaging applications such as WhatsApp,…

SYDNEY: Australians are bracing for the worst cyclone in the country’s northeast in several years, with residents evacuated and schools…

MOSCOW: A quarter of a century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia is finally set to pay off…

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump sought Saturday to put a good face on his most stinging political setback yet, declaring that Obamacare…

WASHINGTON: A US drone strike in eastern Afghanistan on March 19 killed the senior Al-Qaeda military commander Qari Yasin, who…