World

Rome: The European Union will go ahead with training for the Libyan coast guard this week, days after a coast guard vessel allegedly attacked a boat...

Cape Town: Splits are widening in South Africa’s ruling African National Congress over President Jacob Zuma’s leadership and a decision by prosecutors...

Oslo/Geneva: Greenhouse gases rose to a symbolic milestone in 2015, taking climate change into a new phase which could last generations even if governments...

Mumbai: In a dramatic development that took the corporates and others by surprise, Cyrus Mistry was on Monday sacked as chairman of Tata Sons and was...

Santa Monica (California): Veteran social activist and politician Tom Hayden, a stalwart of America's New Left who served 18 years in California's...

Manila: The most senior US diplomat for Asia assured the Philippines on Monday that Washington remained its "trusted" ally and that it supported...

Bangkok: Human rights activists on Monday called on Thailand's junta to drop sedition charges against a rights lawyer in the first such case against an...

Seoul: South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday proposed amending the constitution to allow presidents to serve multiple terms or to establish a...

Tokyo: Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and later to conquer the world's seven highest peaks, has died at the age of 77, Japanese...

Valletta: A light aircraft crashed after taking off from Malta's main airport early on Monday, killing all five people on board, officials there said,...