KHARTOUM: Sudan’s military rulers have transferred ousted president Omar al-Bashir to prison, a family source said Wednesday, as demonstrators keep up their sit-in outside the army complex calling for a swift transfer to civilian government. Following the dramatic end to Bashir’s rule of three decades last week, he was moved
TOKYO: You can’t hide your lying eyes: scientists have revealed that women can judge whether a man is likely to be unfaithful just by looking at his face but men are less able to spot a cheating woman. Researchers at the University of Western Australia took a group of 1,500
SYDNEY: A pet deer killed a man and left a woman critically injured at a rural property in Australia on Wednesday, police said. Emergency services were called to the outback home in Victoria state early in the morning and found the badly gored couple, both aged 46. “The man died
GABORONE: Botswana’s state-owned Okavango Diamond Company on Wednesday unveiled the biggest blue diamond ever discovered in the Southern Africa country. At 20.46 carats, the gem is one of the rarest stones in the world, and “sits in the very top bracket of all-time historical blue diamond finds”, the company said
TAIPEI: The boss of tech giant Foxconn said Wednesday he will be running for president of Taiwan – after securing the backing of a local Sea Goddess. Terry Gou, who announced this week he was stepping back from frontline operations at the Apple supplier, said he would seek the nomination
SURABAYA: Dressed like Count Dracula, Yasim Adnan doesn’t look much like an election official, but neither do his staff who are decked out as mummies and spooky nuns with blood pouring from their eyes. The 37-year-old Indonesian presided over one of the creepiest ballot stations in the Muslim majority country
PANGHSANG: It has a standing army of 25,000, manufactures its own guns and conscripts at least one member of each household – meet the United Wa State Army: Communist, reclusive, China-backed rebels determined to protect their supremacy over Myanmar’s badland border zone. Thousands of soldiers, including a company of women
LUANG PRABANG: Wearing gold-embroidered silk outfits, faces thick with makeup, a line-up of seven Laotian beauty queens greet a sea of cheering supporters at the annual new year beauty contest in Luang Prabang. But this is no regular pageant: the contestants are stand-ins for the seven blessed daughters of Laos’
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday hailed as “strategic” President Donald Trump’s veto of a resolution from Congress directing him to end US support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. “President Trump’s assertion of support to the Arab Coalition in Yemen is a positive signal of US resolve
BARCELONA: Rescue charity ship Open Arms received the green light to set sail from the port of Barcelona on Wednesday but will not be allowed to return to the central Mediterranean to save migrants. Spanish authorities in mid-January denied permission for the ship to leave Barcelona, arguing Spain has no