CEBU: The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippine island of Bohol on Tuesday rose to 93, as rescuers struggled to
BAGHDAD: Iraq executed 42 people, including a woman, for mass killings and other “terrorism” offences over the past week, the justice ministry and the United Nations said on Thursday after
OSLO: The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for its extensive efforts” to rid the world of such arsenals, the Norwegian
STOCKHOLM: Canadian writer Alice Munro won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy, which selects Nobel literature winners, called her a “master of the contemporary short
TRIPOLI:Former rebel gunmen freed Libya’s prime minister on Thursday after holding him for several hours in reprisal for the capture by U.S. forces at the weekend of a Libyan al
OSLO: Alongside the glory, the Nobel Peace Prize has a darker side likely to make the awards committee think hard before honouring a Pakistani teenage activist shot by the Taliban.
LONDON: A passenger with almost no flying experience landed a light aircraft after being talked down by an instructor on the ground when the pilot fell ill at the controls
PARIS: Earth may experience a radically different climate within 34 years, forever changing life as we know it, said a study that aims to bring the dangers of global warming
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nearly 50 years after they came up with the theory, but little more than a year since the world’s biggest atom smasher delivered the proof, Britain’s Peter
The United States may announce within days that it is suspending most military aid to Egypt – sparing counter-terrrorism efforts and other “core interests” – three months after that country’s