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Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):Officials in Kenya investigating the massive airport fire that gutted the arrival hall at Nairobi's main airport said Thursday that first responders looted electronics, a bank, and an ATM, during and...

Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP):Millions of Muslims across Asia began celebrating the end of the fasting month of Ramadan on Thursday with solemn sunrise prayers followed by savoury high-calorie feasts to mark their holiest holiday, despite concerns over...

Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Obama to sign student loan bill today - WASHINGTON (AP):The White House says President Barack Obama will sign a bill Friday to lower the costs of borrowing for millions of students.The bipartisan bill has been awaiting Obama's...

Published:Friday | August 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ASSIUT, Egypt (AP):It was night-time and 10,000 Islamists were...

Published:Thursday | August 8, 2013 | 10:21 AM

The New York City Police officer accused of killing unarmed Jamaican teenager Ramarley Graham will not face criminal charges, the New York Post has reported.

Published:Thursday | August 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Charges filed in Benghazi attackWASHINGTON (AP):The Justice Department has filed the first criminal charges in the deadly attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, two US officials said Tuesday.The officials confirmed that a sealed...

Published:Thursday | August 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM

CLEVELAND (AP):With several swipes from the arm of an excavator and applause from spectators, a house where three women were held captive and raped for a decade was demolished Wednesday, reduced to rubble ...

Published:Thursday | August 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Already faltering, President Barack Obama's five-year effort to reboot US-Russian relations finally crashed Wednesday, as the White House abruptly cancelled his planned face-to-face summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin.The effort to...

Published:Wednesday | August 7, 2013 | 1:44 PM

According to the BBC, Obama says he is disappointed with Russia's decision to offer Snowden asylum for a year.

Published:Tuesday | August 6, 2013 | 8:42 AM

Some 20 US embassies and consulates were shut on Sunday and several diplomatic posts are set to remain closed until Saturday.

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 2:13 PM

Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant is facing a new emergency caused by a build up of radioactive ground water.

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 2:12 PM

After five years or trials Turkey's former armed forces chief has been jailed for life for plotting to overthrow the government.

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Ohio killer set for execution found hanged in cell CLEVELAND (AP):A man condemned to death for fatally stabbing a neighbour during a Cleveland burglary was found hanged in his cell yesterday just days before his Wednesday...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ROME:Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi pledged his support for Italy's fragile coalition government to a gathering of thousands of supporters yesterday, but he remained defiant in the face of a supreme court ruling confirming his tax fraud conviction ...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

SANAA (AP): Security forces yesterday closed roads, put up extra blast walls, and increased patrols near some of the 22 United States (US) diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Police arrested a man on suspicion of murder after a driver plowed into crowds at the Venice Beach boardwalk, a seemingly intentional hit-and-run that killed an Italian woman on her honeymoon and injured 11 others.Nathan Louis...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

JAKARTA, Indonesia:A low-powered explosive detonated at a Buddhist temple in Indonesia's capital as devotees inside were praying, injuring one person while another bomb that was set failed to go off, police said yesterday.The explosion happened last...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON:Instead of 'Hail to the Chief', President Barack Obama most likely heard strains of 'Happy Birthday' this weekend.Obama, who turned 52 on yesterday, spent part of the day at the Camp...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2013 | 12:00 AM

LUMBERTON, Mississippi:A skydiving instructor from Pensacola, Florida, died in a remote swamp after a tandem jump that hospitalised his student, Lamar County Sheriff Danny Rigel said yesterday.James 'Jimmie' Horak Jr, 56, an instructor for the Emerald...

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2013 | 6:27 PM

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called an election for September 7, six weeks after defeating former Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a Labor party vote.

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2013 | 6:11 PM

Iran's new president expressed his country's support to Syria's embattled leader Bashar Assad's regime Sunday, saying no force in the world will be able to shake their decades-old alliance.

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2013 | 6:09 PM

U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed at least through the end of this week, the State Department said Sunday, citing "an abundance of caution".

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2013 | 12:05 PM

Iran's new president today called on the West to abandon the "language of sanctions" in dealing with the Islamic Republic over its contentious nuclear program.

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2013 | 11:16 AM

The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee said the weekend closures of nearly two dozen U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world was "the most serious threat" he'd seen.

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP):New Zealand authorities have triggered a global recall of up to 1,000 tons of dairy products across seven countries after dairy giant Fonterra announced tests had turned up a type of bacteria that could cause botulism.

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