Category: World

BANDA ACEH (Indonesia): Tearful mourners prayed yesterday as ceremonies began across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami

LONDON: The wife of deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been given a 50/50 chance of survival, reported PA Media/dpa news

LOS ANGELES: A person was found dead in the wheel well of a United Airlines plane after it landed at an airport in Hawaii on Christmas

BANGKOK: Thailand is set to roll out a nationwide implementation of its upgraded universal health coverage programme from January, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra announced on Wednesday,

ISTANBUL: A powerful blast ripped through an explosives plant in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday killing 12 people and injuring five others, officials said. Footage showed

SEOUL: South Korea’s opposition said Tuesday it would hold back a decision to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo until later in the week. The opposition

LONDON: Chocolate firm Cadbury said on Monday it was “disappointed” after losing its royal warrant for the first time in 170 years following King Charles

SEOUL: South Korea has become a “super-aged society”, with 20 per cent of its population aged 65 or older, official data showed on Tuesday, a

Kabul: Every day before dawn, Jamil Ghafori gets to work on the floor of a cramped Kabul bakery with five other men churning out thousands

TOKYO: A Japanese hot spring town popular for its photogenic snowy scenes began limiting entry to day-trippers on Monday in a trial to tackle overtourism