[caption id="attachment_33920" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Bangladeshi soldiers use a crane to remove rubble from an eight-story building that collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, in this April 23, 2013, file photo. (AFP)[/caption] ULHAS ALAM | AP / Friday 10 May 2013 DHAKA, Ban

Islamabad: Gunmen on Thursday kidnapped the son of a former Pakistani prime minister who is also standing in the country's elections, police said.  His secretary Mohiyuddin and bodyguard were wounded and later died, Pakistani TV news channels reported. Five others were injured in the attack.   2

Pakistan polls: Nawaz, Imran are neck-and-neck, survey says May 8, 2013, 05.55PM IST PTI ISLAMABAD: The PML(N) and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf appear to be neck-and-neck in the race for power in Pakistan as they enjoy almost the same voter approval ratings in a new survey released on Wednesday.

NAIROBI, Kenya: More than 1 million babies die the day they are born every year, according to a new report released Tuesday, and the 14 countries with the highest rates of first-day deaths are all in Africa. Somalia, Congo, Mali, Sierra Leone and Central African Republic are the five countries with

Permatang Pauh: Malaysians voted on Sunday in their first election in history with a change of government at stake, as a decades-old regime battles to hold off a rising opposition pledging sweeping reform. Voting got under way at 8:00 am (0530 IST) as polling centres opened with tensions high

SAVAR, Bangladesh: An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh’s capital Wednesday morning, killing at least 87 people and trapping many more in a jumbled mess of shattered concrete and bricks, officials said. The collapse stirred memories of a fatal fire

The compensation to owners of expropriated properties within the Grand Mosque northern courtyards’ expansion project is estimated at SR 133 billion. Of this, SR 50 billion have been disbursed. Compensation is estimated on the basis of the property's proximity to the mosque. The highest compensation

The world's oldest person turned 116 on Friday as local health chiefs in Japan launch a study to find out why he and many of those around him have lived so long.   Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, was expected to celebrate his astonishing milestone with friends and family, and recei

Saudi Arabia, Egypt and UAE nationals dominate the list of the Arab world’s 100 richest people for 2013 released by Forbes Middle East today. Amongst the world’s richest Arabs, Saudi took lead with 41 ranks, followed by Egypt, UAE, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Jordan, Syria, Sudan and Oman.

[caption id="attachment_30830" align="aligncenter" width="580"] South Korean honour guards march at a war museum in Seoul on Wednesday. (AFP)[/caption] SEOUL: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle yesterday called on North Korea to stop its “war of rhetoric” and said the isolated state was “p

SHIGAL (AFGHANISTAN): Eleven children and a woman were killed by an air strike during a Nato operation targeting Taliban commanders in eastern Afghanistan, officials in the region said Sunday. Civilian deaths have been a long-running source of friction between Afghan President Hamid Karzai an

  LONDON: The British home office on Saturday relaxed immigration rules that will allow international MBA graduates from British universities and other higher education institutions to stay in the United Kingdom for up to a year after graduating as part of the expanded graduate entrepren

SYDNEY: A Samoan airline that says it is the world’s first carrier to charge passengers by their weight rather than per seat defends the plan as the fairest way to fly, in some cases actually ending up cheaper than conventional tickets. Samoa Air, which opened in 2012, asks passengers to declare th

Madinah Gov. Prince Faisal bin Salman yesterday held talks with Haj Minister Bandar Hajjar on new projects to improve facilities for pilgrims visiting the holy city. Hajar gave a presentation on the ministry’s various projects to improve Haj services including the electronic track system, the inter

Seoul, South Korea: North Korea said Tuesday that it would put all its nuclear facilities - including its operational uranium-enrichment program and its reactors mothballed or under construction - to use in expanding its nuclear weapons arsenal, sharply raising the stakes in the standoff with th

SIT KWIN, MYANMAR: The Muslims of Sit Kwin were always a small group who numbered no more than 100 of the village's 2,000 people. But as sectarian violence led by Buddhist mobs spreads across central Myanmar, they and many other Muslims are disappearing. Their homes, shops and mosques destroy

Seoul: North Korea said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in a continuing escalation of tough rhetoric against Seoul and Washington after coming under international sanctions for its nuclear test. "From this time on, the North-South relations will be entering the s

  Seoul: North Korea cut off the last remaining military hotlines with South Korea on Wednesday, accusing President Park Geun-hye of South Korea of pursuing the same hard-line policy of her predecessor that the North blamed for a prolonged chill in inter-Korean relations. Amid tension