BANGKOK: Thailand’s military junta said yesterday it would detain former premier Yingluck Shinawatra and other ousted government leaders for up…

ANKARA: A top aide to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who sparked global outrage after being photographed kicking an…

MOGADISHU: Somalia’s Shebab rebels launched a major attack on the national parliament yesterday, setting off a car bomb and penetrating…

MANILA: A crocodile killed a fisherman in the Philippines and was discovered by coast guard workers with the man still…

URUMQI, China: Security was tight yesterday in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang, two days after the volatile Muslim Uighur…

AMMAN: Cheering Christians piled onto buses from churches across Jordan yesterday, heading for an Amman stadium where Pope Francis will…

LONDON: American scientists are developing a new vaccine against malaria following research on children in Tanzania, Mozambique’s AIM news agency…