TEHRAN: A military cargo plane overshot a runway, crashed and caught fire during a botched landing near the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 13 people, the army said yesterday. The plane was carrying meat from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan when it crashed near the capital Tehran, the army said in a statement,
As early as the fifth century B.C., the Greek historian Thucydides contrasted the self-control and stoicism of Spartans with the more indulgent and freethinking citizens of Athens. Today, unique behaviours and characteristics seem ingrained in certain cultures. Italians wildly gesticulate when they talk. Dutch children are notably easygoing and less
SYDNEY: As many as a million fish are believed to have died along the banks of a major river system in drought-battered eastern Australia, and the authorities warned yesterday of more deaths to come. The banks of the Murray-Darling Rivers are thick with rotten fish, with officials putting the number
SINGAPORE: Singapore is looking to strengthen its adoption laws after a gay man won an appeal to legally adopt his biological son in a landmark court ruling last year, its social affairs minister said yesterday. The man, after learning he was unlikely to be able to adopt a child in
BEIJING: China will launch a probe to collect samples from the moon around the end of this year, a space official said yesterday, weeks after Beijing hailed the successful touch down on the far side of the moon. The Chang’e-4 lunar probe landed on Jan. 3 and transmitted the first-ever
RIYADH: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faces a tough balancing act yesterday as he presses Saudi Arabia’s crown prince over critic Jamal Khashoggi’s murder while shoring up strategic ties with Riyadh. The top US diplomat, on an extensive Middle East tour, held talks with King Salman and his son
MOSCOW: One person was killed and four were missing after a gas explosion tore through a multi-storey residential building in southern Russia early yesterday, authorities said. The blast, in the town of Shakhty in the southern Rostov region, destroyed several apartments on the top two floors of the nine-storey building,
The world is divided: There are the techno-optimists who believe the more tech, the better – but then there are the techno-pessimists, who think all this tech may bad for us. Judging by the robots on display at the world’s biggest tech show this week, they may have a point.
TORONTO (Canada): A “very, very happy” Saudi teenager who caused a sensation by defying her family and seeking asylum abroad was welcomed with open arms in Toronto on Saturday at the end of a dramatic but exhausting international odyssey. Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland greeted Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun after she landed
NEW YORK: A winter storm that dumped heavy snow on the US Midwest, causing at least five roadway deaths, stranding some motorists in Missouri and cancelling dozens of flights, marched east toward Washington on Saturday. The weather system, which started as rain from Mexico but has since turned into snow,
