LONDON: Thousands of mourners gathered at a British cathedral on Thursday to celebrate the life of a teenager who raised…

BEIJING: Beijing yesterday slammed as ‘provocative’ a proposal by US lawmakers to rename the street outside China’s Washington embassy in…

JAKARTA: Mugiyanto recalls the horror of being abducted by soldiers, blindfolded, beaten and electrocuted as a student activist fighting to…

BEIJING: A shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 hit southwest China close to the border with Myanmar on Friday…

UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council expressed “disappointment and concern” Thursday that an election of a new Lebanese president has…

SYDNEY: Australia yesterday ruled out a large swathe of Indian Ocean as Flight MH370’s final resting place, compounding the frustration…

BANGKOK: Thailand’s military rulers held out little hope for early elections on Thursday, a week after the army seized power,…

TOKYO: A 998-tonne oil tanker was listing off the Japanese coast yestersday after a large explosion and subsequent fire that…