NASA counts down to landing of Martian quake-sensor
TAMPA: NASA is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown Monday of the $993 million Mars InSight, the first spacecraft to listen for quakes and study
TAMPA: NASA is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown Monday of the $993 million Mars InSight, the first spacecraft to listen for quakes and study

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia will not allow foreign military bases on its soil, strongman premier Hun Sen said yesterday, swatting away US concerns about a possible
HONG KONG: Three leading Hong Kong democracy campaigners pleaded not guilty yesterday to public nuisance charges over their involvement in massive rallies calling for political
NEW DELHI: Hundreds of “manual scavengers” die each year cleaning out sewers in cities across India but a machine unveiled for Monday’s World Toilet Day
BRUSSELS: European governments started to thrash out a plan for close ties with post-Brexit Britain yesterday in the last week before they gather to sign
SHANGHAI: African swine fever has spread rapidly to more than half of China’s provinces despite measures to contain it, the government said, warning that a
SYDNEY: Groups aligned with the Islamic state have warned of further attacks on Australia and other Western nations in online posters featuring the deadly lone
SINGAPORE: US Vice President Mike Pence said yesterday President Donald Trump plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the new year but
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s parliament on Wednesday voted out the bitterly disputed government of former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse, removing one controversial figure but leaving the country
SINGAPORE: Hi-tech Singapore has deployed an autonomous robot with a swivelling camera for a head and flashing lights to patrol a summit venue — arresting