Saturday, 18 January 2014
 




2014-01-17
PARIS - President Francois Hollande has visited France's first lady for the first time since she was hospitalized for rest following a gossip magazine's report that he was having an affair with an...
2014-01-17
By JULIE PACE and KIMBERLY DOZIER, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping a monthslong review, President Barack Obama is expected to back modest changes to the government's surveillance...
2014-01-17
A barrage of almost two dozen missiles and shells from Syria slammed into Lebanese border towns and villages on Friday, killing seven people, including several children who were out playing, Lebanese...
2014-01-17
Henry Ridgwell LONDON — A temporary deal agreed in November between world powers and Iran regarding its nuclear program comes into force Monday. It’s seen as a stepping-stone to a broader...
2014-01-17
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar's electoral court declared former finance minister Hery Rajaonarimampianina president-elect on Friday despite allegations by his defeated rival that the December...
2014-01-17
The World Health Organization has declared Pakistan&aposs; restive northwestern city of Peshawar as the world&aposs; "largest reservoir" of polio. The international group on Friday...
2014-01-17
Dozens of people were wounded in Thailand's capital Friday when a grenade was hurled at anti-government demonstrators marching through Bangkok at midday, an ominous development that raises tensions in...
2014-01-17
MOSCOW (AP) — A Chechen rebel warlord who has threatened to attack the Sochi Olympics is dead, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed strongman said Thursday, but he offered no proof and his claim couldn't...
2014-01-17
CARACAS, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan Vice President Jorge Arreaza on Thursday reaffirmed the economic reform measures outlined by President Nicolas Maduro, saying the decision was aimed at...
2014-01-16
The U.S. Air Force has disclosed that 34 officers entrusted with the world's deadliest weapons have been removed from launch duty for allegedly cheating — or tolerating cheating by others — on routine...
2014-01-16
TOKYO : More than 900 pupils at elementary schools in a central Japanese city have fallen ill in a suspected outbreak of mass food poisoning, officials said. The number of students who reported...
2014-01-16
VOA News Thai authorities said they will start a corruption investigation into a government subsidy program for rice farmers, in the latest setback for embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra....
2014-01-16
UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon to try four men in absentia because Hezbollah has vowed never to arrest them Portrait of Rafik Hariri on his grave in Beirut, Lebanon. He and 22 others were killed...
2014-01-16
New Delhi - Indian police carried out raids across New Delhi on Thursday as they hunted for a further six men wanted over the gang-rape of a Danish tourist which has put the country's record on sexual...
2014-01-16
Video from a firefighter's helmet camera following the crash landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco shows rescuers were aware there was someone on the ground outside the plane, before...
2014-01-16
Los Angeles - A California appeals court unanimously upheld on Wednesday the involuntary manslaughter conviction of Michael Jackson's former doctor, saying there was evidence of his guilt in...
2014-01-16
WASHINGTON — Partisan lawmakers feuding over the proper size of government reached a temporary truce Wednesday as the House easily approved a $1-trillion spending bill aimed at averting another...
2014-01-15
PARISFrench President Francois Hollande conceded Tuesday that he is going through "painful moments" with his companion, who was hospitalized after a magazine reported that he is secretly...
2014-01-14
CAIRO (AP) — A referendum on a new constitution laid bare the sharp divisions in Egypt six months after the military removed the elected Islamist president. Pro-army voters lined up Tuesday outside...
2014-01-14
By Alistair Lyon BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sunni Muslim militants staged coordinated attacks near the western Iraqi city of Falluja on Tuesday, destroying two army tanks and capturing a police station,...
2014-01-14
Zhang Shuxia tricked parents into giving up their babies by telling them the newborns were sick or had died. A Chinese former obstetrician was given a suspended death sentence on Tuesday for abducting...
2014-01-14
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill on Monday that criminalizes same-sex relationships, defying Western pressure over gay rights and provoking criticism from the United States. The...
2014-01-14
(Source: UN - United Nations) Central African Republic: new transitional leader could help restore hope, UN official says Displaced civilians collect food rations at a WFP distribution site near...
2014-01-14
Survivors of the capsized Costa Concordia have marked two years since the cruise ship grounded off Italy with a candlelight march on Giglio island and a moment of silence in the courtroom where the...
2014-01-13
Tweet Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian man who tried to set off an explosive hidden in his underwear while aboard a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day in 2009, on Monday had his life sentence upheld...