Pakistani Shi'ite Muslim women carry flags and replica guns as they mark Al-Quds Day rally in Karachi yesterday. A suicide bomber killed at least 53 people at a similar rally in the country's...

The plane, belonging to a skydiving company, burst into flames after takeoff from an airstrip at Fox Glacier, said Ian Henderson, a spokesman for local ambulance services.Greymouth Police Senior...

After three years, Pemudah, initially set up to make public delivery service more effective and efficient, now faces the same question it put to others. Has it been effective in effecting mindset...

Chinese consumers find themselves in a Catch-22 situation, with both local and foreign dairy products having their own share of problems and seemingly too risky for consumption TWO weeks after...

WE ARE approaching a festive season and Ops Sikap 22 has just begun. I am writing to highlight the problem of road hogging and hope the enforcement authorities can take the necessary action to solve...

I AM a Malaysian living and working with a hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. Back in 2004, my boss asked me if I knew anything about the Muslim fasting month. He said there was a petroleum conference...

IF I may add a few words to your editorial on Sept 2 ”Affirm core values, be open to new ways”. We have to support the voices of moderation if Malaysia, let alone 1Malaysia is to succeed....

The accounts of murder, arson, and crimes against women sounded horribly familiar: Each detail, each grisly fact seemed taken out of a script enacted before; the sequence of events was as predictable...

WASHINGTON -- Israel's prime minister and the Palestinian president have set off on a yearlong peace journey, taking to a well-trodden road that has led only to failure for nearly two decades. Even...

MANILA -- Scenes of the Philippine flag draped over the coffin of the hostage taker who slaughtered eight Hong Kong tourists in a bus siege before being shot dead last week caused outrage in Hong...

After years of reforms that have reduced the government's once-pervasive involvement in most people's lives, some Chinese are proving reluctant to give up personal information and harboring...

Claiming “indisputable sovereignty” over the South China Sea, the People's Republic of China has roiled the political, strategic and diplomatic waters throughout Southeast Asia. Beijing's recent...

Oftentimes, survival itself is an achievement. But in his first year as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Konijeti Rosaiah not only provided political stability in a State rocked by the Telangana...

Under cover of darkness, hundreds of armoured vehicles rumbled across the Iraqi border into Kuwait, marking the much-touted withdrawal of American combat forces. Dominant sections of the...

There's a palpable mood of optimism among Britain's 2,00,000-strong Dalit community as it waits for the Government to take a decision on its long-standing campaign for caste discrimination to be...

Africa's first ever refugee social network was launched in Uganda on September 3 on a pilot basis where refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) will be able to trace their family or friends...

In recent months, among the many that have raised doubts about the Commonwealth Games, the most compelling argument is about fiscal malpractice. For every stadium built, for every flyover, footbridge...

Sonia Gandhi as the party president since she has already served three terms. The logic is derived from a proviso in the Congress constitution, which limits the tenure of a state unit president to...

Janardan Dwivedi even 40 terms, no office-bearer of the Congress can become the president of a block, district or state unit of the party for more than two terms. For the sake of a vibrant democratic...

Hanoi are forging a new alliance. To be sure, the military exercises between old adversaries Vietnam and the US are rich with symbolism the guided missile destroyer...

It is folly to call this election until the final announcements are made. But an Abbott government would occur against this week's trend. Gillard has formed a Labor-Green alliance, won the backing of...

The need to stay on message was alive and well as both parties began wooing the independents to form a minority government.Although Tony Abbott and the Coalition probably won the formal election...

While the situation is still fluid, it seems to me the most interesting question to pose is what historians in 20 years are likely to make of the narrative leading up to next week's decision. What...

But there are bigger possibilities than that. It could drive reform of government policy-making and administration, which at present does not work for the 5 per cent of Australians occupying the 85...

Sadly, children make perfect victims. They are smaller and weaker than their abusers. They are easily intimidated by rapists and others who assault them.Abusers have many allies, some unwitting, some...

Author of Take This Child, which tells of the removal of the Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory, Cummings refused to attend when the former prime minister delivered the national apology in...

INDIGENOUS art is the darling of the contemporary art world. In recent decades the sector has grown to be worth an estimated $500 million a year with Aboriginal artists, mostly desert-based,...

All fine performances, no doubt, but some among the 17-member voting panel that chose them were horrified to learn when the nominations were revealed that Blanchett had missed out on a berth.This...

AS the casualties mount in Afghanistan and the sight of politicians attending funerals becomes a fixture of the evening news bulletin, the shortage of chaplains is concerning many members of the...