GENEVA: The World Health Organization confirmed on Wednesday (Oct 29) that the rate of Ebola infections appeared to be slowing…

KOSLANDER, Sri Lanka: Rescue workers stepped up their desperate search on Thursday (Oct 29) for survivors of a landslide in…

SANLIURFA, Turkey: Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters bound for the battleground Syrian town of Kobane where they will confront Islamic State…

SINGAPORE: Singapore will deploy a huge tethered surveillance balloon to boost its maritime and air security, the defence ministry has…

BEIJING: Needles apparently stuck into the body of an 11-month-old baby by her aunt were surgically removed on Tuesday, Xinhua…

WASHINGTON: An unmanned rocket owned by Orbital Sciences Corporation exploded Tuesday in a giant fireball and plummeted back to Earth…

BANGKOK: A Thai court dismissed a defamation charge against a British activist yesterday in a case linked to a report…

YANGON: A Myanmar journalist who was killed in army custody this month was once a democracy activist and a bodyguard…