Zika virus likely to spread in Asia Pacific: WHO
MANILA: The Zika virus is set to spread through Asia, the World Health Organization warned Monday, with hundreds of cases…
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Name-calling and trading insults
Second debate crammed with moments that could at best be described as petty and at worse vicious WASHINGTON: There was…
German police arrest Syrian bomb plot suspect
LEIPZIG, Germany: German police yesterday arrested a Syrian man suspected of plotting a jihadist bomb attack after a two-day manhunt,…
Early polls show Clinton won second debate
WASHINGTON: Polls suggest that Hillary Clinton won Sunday’s bitter US presidential debate against Republican rival Donald Trump as he struggles…
UK, Finland-born economists win 2016 Nobel Prize for Economics
STOCKHOLM: British-born Oliver Hart and Finland-born Bengt Holmstrom won the 2016 Nobel Economics Prize for their contributions to contract theory,…
British ex-war correspondent, Aussie businessman arrested in Bali drugs case
DENPASAR, Indonesia: A British former war correspondent and an Australian man have been arrested on Indonesia’s Bali island for alleged…
Singapore charges two former BSI bankers in 1MDB-linked probe
SINGAPORE: Singapore police charged two former BSI bankers yesterday amid an investigation tied to the scandal-hit Malaysian state fund 1MDB…
China house collapse death toll rises to eight
Eight people were killed after a group of houses collapsed in China on Monday, local authorities said. The four buildings…