BEIJING: Nearly US$3 billion generated from China’s state lotteries – a quarter of the funds they raised in recent years…

SAINT-QUENTIN-FALLAVIER, France: A suspected Islamist attacker pinned a decapitated head covered with Arabic writing to the gates of a gas…

WASHINGTON: A sightseeing plane crashed into a granite rock face in southeast Alaska Thursday killing all nine people on board,…

BANGKOK: Thai police yesterday banned a press conference in Bangkok about the persecution of a Vietnamese religious minority, claiming it…

WASHINGTON: US intelligence chief James Clapper said on Thursday that China was the top suspect in the massive hacking of…

BERLIN: A German artist whose painting of a blue horse was presented as a gift to Britain’s visiting Queen Elizabeth…

HONG KONG: A storied Macau junket operator, who has been the focus of a lengthy police investigation, has been accused…

JOHANNESBURG: A 2012 South African police operation that left 34 Marikana mine workers dead should “not have taken place”, a…