SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Thursday selected her justice minister to become the new prime minister — a…

BEIJING: China called for restraint yesterday after North Korea claimed to have developed the ability to deliver miniaturised warheads on…

WELLINGTON: New Zealand confirmed yesterday it had failed to meet a pledge to deliver a budget surplus this year, although…

BEIRUT: Jihadists from the Islamic State group seized full control of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra on Thursday, a…

BUENOS AIRES: The fate of an orangutan named Sandra is inching through a court in Argentina, after another court ruled…

STRASBOURG, FRANCE: EU lawmakers on Wednesday accused some member states of passing the buck by rejecting a Brussels plan for…

BERLIN: German police Wednesday recovered two life-sized bronze sculptures of horses worth millions that once stood outside Adolf Hitler’s chancellery…

Bin Laden documents declassified WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES:AFP has received exclusive access to newly declassified Al-Qaeda documents seized at Osama…