BEIJING: A prominent Chinese legal activist defiantly denounced a court as ‘absurd’ yesterday as it upheld his jail sentence for…

DAKAR: International aid organisations launched a series of emergency measures across west Africa on Thursday in a bid to contain…

LOS ANGELES: A tractor-trailer slammed into a tour bus carrying high school students in northern California, killing at least nine…

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning, paying the price for the chaotic initial…

CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sat down for talks with arch-rival Henrique Capriles on Thursday in a first meeting with…

BANGKOK: Nine Cambodians were killed Friday when a mini-bus carrying migrant workers returning home for the Buddhist New Year crashed…

SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday he was “very confident” that signals detected in the search for…

SEOUL: South Korea and the United States kicked off their largest-ever joint air drill on Friday at a time of…