SYDNEY: Thieves armed with heavy machinery and cranes made a daring midnight heist in northern Australia, stealing a 10-metre, seven-tonne…

CARACAS: Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro is readying crisis talks to try to defuse a deadly wave of protests that have…

BEIRUT: Al-Qaeda’s representative in Syria was killed Sunday in a suicide bombing, the rebel Islamic Front announced on its Twitter…

MOSCOW: Russian police detained at least 100 protesters yesterday outside a Moscow court where a judge was set to sentence…

JAYAPURA, Indonesia: Eleven people have been killed and two others are missing after torrential rain triggered landslides in Indonesia’s remote…

Opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko walks free as president disappears KIEV: A new era opened in Ukraine Sunday after a day…

FREETOWN: Sierra Leone said on Saturday it had discovered a diamond worth US$6.2 million, declaring it one of the most…