OGIDI, Nigeria: Thousands mourned Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe on Thursday at the hometown funeral of the man regarded as the father of modern African literature, best known for his seminal novel “Things Fall Apart”.
An overflow crowd ...
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Bulgaria’s largest party GERB declined on Thursday to try to form a new government, opening the way for the rival Socialists to put together a technocrat administration and end a political impasse.
Seeking to break a deadlock that could ...
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Richard Ingham
CANNES, France: In just a few years, China has become the world’s most enticing movie market, but the pitfalls there for foreign filmmakers are many, experts say.
Censorship, bureaucracy and piracy head the roster of concerns, according to ...
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GENEVA: A United Nations human rights investigator called on Thursday for all states to declare a moratorium to prevent so-called “killer robots” being deployed on the battlefield.
Christof Heyns, UN special rapporteur on executions, said that ...
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STOCKHOLM: Rioters torched cars and attacked local police stations in 15 immigrant-populated Stockholm suburbs in a fourth night of riots on Thursday, shattering Sweden’s image as a peaceful and egalitarian nation.
The riots have sparked a ...
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Mike Davidson
CANNES: Three years after “Senna”, the hit film biography of the late Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, sporting documentaries about Jackie Stewart, Muhammad Ali and Pele are competing for attention at the Cannes Film Festival.
In “Weekend ...
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CANNES: Veteran comedian-actor Jerry Lewis plays a dramatic role in his first movie in 18 years, “Max Rose”, which is premiering at the Cannes film festival, but showed on Thursday he had lost none of his talent for playing the clown.
Lewis, ...
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BRUSSELS: Bosnia is falling behind on commitments to human rights and the rule of law, making its chances of joining the European Union increasingly remote, according to EU officials and lawmakers. In a debate on Thursday, members of the European ...
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police arrested three opposition politicians and activists on Thursday and charged another with sedition, launching a crackdown on dissent three weeks after an election exposed deep divisions in the country and sparked a ...
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VATICAN CITY: The president of El Salvador met Pope Francis on Thursday to urge his fellow Latin American to put Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980, on the road to Roman Catholic sainthood.
The ...
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Three decades after Ronald Reagan launched his “Star Wars” project, the costly missile defence program has become a pillar of US strategy despite lingering doubts about its technology.
No longer designed to counter a Soviet nuclear attack, the ...
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NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged on Thursday to crack down on corruption in the defence sector after a string of recent graft scandals left his government facing renewed calls to step down.
The premier said he was ...
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BEIJING: A special envoy from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un told one of China’s top officials Thursday that Pyongyang wants peace and is willing to pursue dialogue with key countries, state media reported.
Envoy Choe Ryong-Hae met Liu ...
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Fighting in the Lebanese port of Tripoli between supporters and opponents of the regime in neighbouring Syria killed nine people on Thursday, as a fifth day of violence spread to previously quiet neighbourhoods, a security source ...
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WASHINGTON: An Army sergeant at the US Military Academy has been accused of videotaping female cadets in the showers a West Point, a defence official said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of sex-related incidents that has rocked the armed ...
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DUBAI: Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has accused Iran’s leadership of incompetence and ignorance just days after he was barred from standing in an election next month, the opposition Kaleme website reported on Thursday.
Rafsanjani’s ...
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KATHMANDU: An 80-year-old Japanese man who underwent heart surgery in January reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, becoming the oldest person to scale the world’s highest mountain.
Yuichiro Miura and his party, including his ...
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NEW YORK: German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped Forbes’s list of the world’s most powerful women for the third consecutive year, followed by Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, the magazine said Wednesday.
They were followed by Melinda Gates — who ...
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Madeline Chambers
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed him for his charm and political skill as marshal of her vision of a ‘green revolution’ in Europe’s biggest power market. A year on, Peter Altmaier finds himself spurned by many environmentalists, disdained ...
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Muhammad Ejaz Khan
QUETTA: The provincial capital was once again rocked by a powerful bomb explosion that killed at least 13 people, including 12 personnel of the Balochistan Constabulary, and wounded 15 others here at the Eastern Bypass near the Bhoosa Mandi on ...
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