Kenyan security kill four suspected al-Shabab fighters in Lamu, official says
Mombasa: Kenyan military personnel have killed four suspected al-Shabab fighters after a fierce shootout in a forest on the north coast, a government official said on Tuesday. Monday's shooting between...
View ArticleWHO moves into high gear to combat Zika virus, microcephaly: expert
Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that it was gearing up to combat the microcephaly outbreak in Latin America linked to the Zika virus, which it feared could spread to Asia...
View ArticleThousands of Chinese stranded at Guangzhou train station during holiday...
Beijing: More than 50,000 passengers were stranded at a railway station in the Chinese city of Guangzhou on Tuesday because of weather delays, state media said, an...
View ArticleLoneliness grows from individual ache to public health hazard: US researchers
It torments the young and terrorises the old. It carved "caverns" in Emily Dickinson's soul and left William Blake "bereaved of light." Loneliness, long a bane of humanity, is increasingly seen today...
View ArticleWhat a humbled Donald Trump looks like on Twitter
Washington: After what seemed like a very long silence by his standards, Donald Trump returned to Twitter on Tuesday morning US time, striking an uncharacteristically low-key tone. "My experience in...
View ArticleNorth Korea plans satellite launch
Seoul: North Korea has told UN agencies it plans to launch a satellite as early as next week, a move that could advance the country's long-range missile technology after its fourth nuclear test on...
View ArticleConcerns grow over app after a 13-year-old's online fantasies turn fatal
There are few holes deeper than those in the heart of a 13-year-old girl. For many, it is an age of painful yearning, of a life lived in imaginary cloud worlds, away from acne and algebra and all that...
View ArticleWhat it's like to live with microcephaly, the birth defect linked to Zika...
"She will not walk," a doctor told Ana Carolina Caceres' mother on the day she was born. "She will not talk and, over time, she will enter a vegetative state until she dies." But the doctor was wrong,...
View ArticleMarco Rubio, a Republican Barack Obama?
Des Moines, Iowa: Presidential candidate Marco Rubio a senator from Florida is being likened to a Republican Barack Obama on the campaign trail due to his youth and penchant for soaring oratory....
View ArticleExplosion forces plane to make emergency landing in Somalia
Mogadishu: A commercial airliner has made an emergency landing at Mogadishu's international airport after passengers heard a loud bang and a fire broke out on board, leaving a gaping hole in the...
View ArticleHow religion leads to being happy with your lot
London: To Karl Marx it was the opium of the masses, to others it is the meaning of life itself. But religion really can make people more content, figures from Britain's national happiness index...
View ArticleYawning more 'contagious' for women: research
London: Yawns are twice as "catching" in women as they are in men, a new study shows. The finding can be explained by the fact that women are the more empathic sex, researchers say. Growing evidence...
View ArticleChina's slowdown blights African economies
Zimbabwe looks to Chinese yuan as legal tender China's Xi arrives in Africa with focus on trade ties Johannesburg: As China's economy slows and its once seemingly insatiable hunger for Africa's...
View ArticleMalaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak free from Swiss 1MDB accusation
Washington: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak may be breathing a sign of relief after Swiss officials have said he is not among those accused of wrongdoing in an investigation linked to a sovereign...
View ArticleIndonesia's secret dossier to suppress Papuan independence movement
Jakarta: Indonesian authorities compiled a secret dossier of prominent Papuans that details their "weaknesses" - such as women and alcohol - and outlines a strategy to "suppress" the independence...
View ArticleIreland election called for February 26 but few fear Syriza-style leftist...
Dublin: Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has set parliamentary elections for February 26, kicking off campaigning for what promises to be a tight contest dominated by a fractious debate over the...
View ArticleChinese journalist Li Xin in custody in China after being repatriated from...
Beijing: A Chinese journalist and activist who disappeared while seeking refuge in Thailand has re-emerged in China, telling his wife by telephone that he is being held by police. Li Xin, 37,...
View ArticleHit and run 'attack' on cyclist captured on video
London: A cyclist who was brutally rear-ended by an accelerating car and left gasping in agony by the side of the road is furious after being told police won't prosecute the driver. The cyclist, who...
View ArticleFeud with Elon Musk leaves Stewart Alsop stuck driving his 'irritating BMW X1'
The customer is always right, goes the saying. But if you're rude, don't expect that maxim to apply universally as one man found out. Earlier this week Stewart Alsop, a San Francisco venture...
View ArticleSaudi court orders 800 lashes for poet instead of death
A Palestinian poet convicted in Saudi Arabia of charges including insulting Islam now faces 800 lashes, his lawyer said on Wednesday, after a court commuted his death sentence. The case has stirred...
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