Asian markets bounce from selloff as US jobs beat forecasts
6 November 2025, 14:00 PM
Top News
Gunmen kill Pak militia chief, 5 others
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
News
Blast at central Russian plant kills 10: governor
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
News
Spat with Musk’s X / India limits content takedown powers to fewer officials
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
News
Methane threat grows as global action stalls: UN
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
News
Africa accounts for 40pc of global conflicts: ICRC
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
News
Any new attack would be ‘another failure’: Iran
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
News
No reduction in Gaza hunger since truce: WHO
23 October 2025, 17:44 PM
News
China, US to hold trade talks in Malaysia in coming days
23 October 2025, 07:34 AM
News
India poised to sharply cut Russian oil purchases after sanctions, sources say
23 October 2025, 06:50 AM
Business
Moscow to host Afghan talks
Russia plans to hold a conference on Afghanistan in Moscow later this month, the TASS news agency said on Tuesday, but the US State Department did not confirm American attendance.
10 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid hits Italy life expectancy
Average life expectancy in Italy has been shortened by almost one year to 82.3 years because of the coronavirus pandemic, national statistics office Istat said yesterday.
10 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Queen Elizabeth says saddened by Harry and Meghan’s experiences
Queen Elizabeth has said the British royals were saddened by the challenging experiences of her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan and promised to privately address revelations about a racist remark about their son.
9 March 2021, 18:16 PM
Beijing aims ‘to destroy’ Uyghurs
The Chinese government’s alleged actions in Xinjiang have violated every single provision in the United Nations’ Genocide Convention, according to an independent report by more than 50 global experts in human rights, war crimes and international law.
9 March 2021, 18:00 PM
China launches ‘virus passport’
China has launched a system of so-called “virus passports” to kickstart international travel, as Russia sealed its first deal on Tuesday to manufacture the Sputnik V jab in the European Union.
9 March 2021, 18:00 PM
EU Parliament strips Catalan separatists of immunity
The European Parliament yesterday lifted the immunity of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and two allies wanted by Spain following Catalonia’s independence attempt in 2017.
9 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Malala signs Apple TV deal
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize as a teenager after surviving a Taliban assassination attempt, has signed a deal with Apple TV+ that will see her produce dramas and documentaries that focus on women and children.
9 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Lula cleared to run in 2022
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Monday overturned the graft convictions against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, clearing the way for the left-wing leader to run in the 2022 presidential election.
9 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Biden halts drone strikes outside of war zones
President Joe Biden has suspended drone strikes outside of war zones where US forces are operating, reversing the policy of his predecessor Donald Trump, who had given the military free rein in countries such as Somalia.
9 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Royals silent amid ‘racism’ storm
Britain’s monarchy maintained its silence yesterday, after Meghan and Prince Harry accused a family member of making a racist remark about their son and said she had been alienated to the point of contemplating suicide.
9 March 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Shoot me instead’
Kneeling before them in the dust of a northern Myanmar city, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng begged a group of heavily armed police officers to spare “the children” and take her life instead.
9 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Visa applicants denied earlier can reapply
Most US visa applicants who were denied because of former president Donald Trump’s travel ban on 13 mostly Muslim-majority and African countries can seek new decisions or submit new applications, the State Department said on Monday.
9 March 2021, 18:00 PM
One in three women endure physical or sexual violence: WHO
Nearly one in three women worldwide is subjected to physical or sexual violence during her lifetime, pervasive criminal behaviour that has increased during the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
9 March 2021, 16:50 PM
Russia to make Sputnik V vaccine in Italy; a 1st in EU
Russia has signed a deal to produce its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Italy, the first contract in the European Union, the Italian Russian Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday.
9 March 2021, 13:26 PM
Russia sues Google, Facebook, Twitter for not deleting protest content: Ifax
Russian authorities are suing five social media platforms for allegedly failing to delete posts urging children to take part in illegal protests, the Interfax news agency cited a Moscow court as saying today.
9 March 2021, 11:03 AM
Start construction within yr
China should aim to begin construction of a controversial hydropower project on the Brahmaputra river within the year, a senior Tibetan Communist Party official said in comments published yesterday.
8 March 2021, 18:00 PM
10m additional girls at risk
The outsized impact Covid-19 has had on women in some countries could result in an additional 10 million child marriages in this decade, according to a new analysis released yesterday by Unicef.
8 March 2021, 18:00 PM
HK leader praises China’s plan to install ‘patriots’
Hong Kong’s leader yesterday praised China’s plan to ensure only “patriots” remain in politics, denying the move was a purge of the opposition.
8 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Afghan women leave journalism in droves as violence soars
Nearly 20 percent of Afghan women journalists have quit or lost their jobs in the past six months, a media watchdog group said yesterday, as a wave of murders targeting the press has intensified in the war-torn country.
8 March 2021, 18:00 PM
20 dead, 600 injured in Equatorial Guinea
At least 20 people were killed and hundreds injured after four accidental explosions ripped through a military camp in Equatorial Guinea and obliterated neighbouring residential areas.
8 March 2021, 18:00 PM