World

Bangkok: Thailand's Maya Bay, made famous by the film "The Beach", will close to visitors for four months from June to allow its coral reefs...

Seoul: North Korea has accepted a list of South Korean reporters to visit their nuclear testing site after a days-long tug of war with Seoul, South...

Kochi/Mumbai: Indian health officials were checking on Wednesday if a rare, brain-damaging virus had spread to a second state after two suspected cases...

Islamabad: A Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting in Texas last week was buried in her home town of Karachi on Wednesday, her coffin draped...

New York: Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American...

Washington: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday there was a substantial chance his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would not take place as...

The Hague: Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al Maliki asked prosecutors at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to launch a full investigation into...

Washington: The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on five Iranians. In a statement, the US Treasury named the individuals as Mehdi Azarpisheh,...

Beirut/Berlin: Iran poured scorn on threatened US sanctions on Tuesday and told European powers to step up and salvage its international nuclear deal -...

Astana: Gale-force winds have punched holes in one of Astana's best known buildings, a granite-and-glass pyramid, the Kazakh authorities said, warning...