World powers and Iran held a third day of crunch talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme yesterday with top diplomats saying progress was being made but there was no certainty of a deal. The hoped-for agreement — seen as a first…
“It is like a tsunami has hit here.” These were the first words from CNN’s Paula Hancocks, as she arrived in the storm-battered eastern city of Tacloban on board a military transport plane. Leading the first international news team…
Opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed topped yesterday’s bitterly-fought presidential elections, but failed to secure a clear majority needed to avoid a tricky run-off, official results showed. Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) immediately pressed for a quick second round of voting…
The editor of the Guardian is to be questioned by MPs about his newspaper’s publication of intelligence files leaked by the American whistleblower Edward Snowden. Alan Rusbridger is to appear before the House of Commons home affairs select committee next…
Syria’s splintered opposition coalition yesterday insisted it would not go to peace talks in Geneva unless pressure was brought to bear on Damascus to abide by the outcome. “We have always said that we are fully committed to Geneva. But…
The Indian Supreme Court yesterday stayed the Gauhati high court’s verdict that declared the CBI ‘unconstitutional’. The Centre had earlier yesterday challenged before the Supreme Court the Gauhati high court order and sought a stay on it contending that the…
The Pakistani Taliban’s appointment of a new hardline leader opposed to peace talks and with a long history of attacks against the military could push the army into launching a fresh offensive, analysts said. The election of Maulana Fazlullah, notorious…
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not attend a Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka amid mounting pressure on him to boycott the event, a foreign ministry official said yesterday. Instead, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will head the Indian delegation…
Heavy footwear is usually considered uncomfortable, but for Zhang Fuxing weight is definitely not a problem. The 51-year-old from Tangshan, China, spends every morning walking in a pair of iron shoes weighing 405 kilograms. For over seven years, Zhang has…
Army chopper crashes in Indonesia; 13 killed Afp, Jakarta Thirteen people died yesterday when an Indonesian army helicopter carrying construction workers to build a military outpost crashed in the jungles of Borneo and burst into flames, an official said.…
Fragments from a science satellite are likely to crash to Earth late today or early tomorrow after the one-tonne probe breaks up at the end of its mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday. In a statement, the…
The Indian Election Commission has banned the publication and dissemination of exit polls of any kind in the five poll-bound states from November 11 till December 4, when the assembly elections are over. The commission issued these orders and sent…
