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Torrential rains threaten southern Indian State

Published:Wednesday | December 2, 2015 | 10:15 AMAP

More sports in brief: England sweepT20 series

Published:Monday | November 30, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP):Shoaib Malik's highest score (75 off 54 balls) in Twenty20 Internationals could not prevent an England clean sweep in their three-match series. Yesterday's match at Sharjah Cricket Stadium...

High Court rules against Northern Ireland's abortion law

Published:Monday | November 30, 2015 | 9:54 AMAP

UNITED KINGDOMLONDON, (AP):A Belfast High Court ruling is expected to ease Northern Ireland's strict anti-abortion laws to make it easier for women to terminate pregnancies in some cases.Abortions are illegal in Northern Ireland except in extreme...

Macri's promise to expel Venezuela from Mercosur unlikely

Published:Friday | November 27, 2015 | 5:13 PMAP

Experts say a promise by Argentina's president-elect to expel Venezuela from the Mercosur trade bloc seems unlikely to be fulfilled.Venezuela became a full member of the South American bloc in 2012 in an effort to link the region's most powerful...

Brussels students return to school

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 9:16 AMAP

Study: US preschool enrolment low among developed countries

Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP

UNITED STATES, AP: Sixty-six percent of American four year-olds are enrolled in early childhood education, placing the United States well below average compared to other developed countries at a time of increasing focus on early learning,...

Prince Charles: Climate change party to blame for Syria war

Published:Monday | November 23, 2015 | 10:46 AMAP

UNITED KINGDOMLONDON, (AP):Prince Charles said climate change is partly responsible for Syria?s civil war and the chaos it has unleashed.The heir to the British throne said climate change is causing drought, conflict over resources and mass...

Paris mastermind tried to recruit women in Spain

Published:Thursday | November 19, 2015 | 11:05 AMAP

PARIS, (AP):Spain's interior minister says Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, had used Internet social networks to try to recruit women from Spain to join the Islamic State group.Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, speaking...

Paris attacks leave parents, schools with tough questions

Published:Wednesday | November 18, 2015 | 10:52 AMAP

UNITED STATESCOLORADO, (AP):A bookstore in the Denver suburb of Englewood has been vandalised and the owners believe it is because of its name: ISIS Books and Gifts.KMGH-TV reports that the ISIS sign was damaged after someone threw rocks at it.The...

Republican lawmakers take aim at Syrian refugee plan

Published:Tuesday | November 17, 2015 | 10:57 AMAP

UNITED STATESWASHINGTON, (AP):House Speaker Paul Ryan yesterday called for a pause in Syrian refugees coming to the US in the wake of the Paris attacks and said the House will vote on the issue this week."Our nation has always been welcoming but we...

VW offers some employees amnesty for information on cheating

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP

Volkswagen is telling employees that they can come forward with information about how the company cheated on United States emissions tests, and won't be fired.In a move to get to...

Fed chair Yellen says research needed on unconventional policy tools

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP

United States Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is stressing the need to review the unconventional monetary policies that central banks around the world deployed in response to the...

Hong Kong tycoon buys 7-year-old daughter US$77M in diamonds

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP

A Hong Kong billionaire tycoon paid a total of US$77 million at auctions in Geneva for two large and rare coloured diamonds for his seven-year-old daughter Josephine - and renamed them after her, his...

Apple boss Cook to resist UK government spy law plan

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP

Tech giant Apple will resist the British government's efforts to get access to encrypted data through a new spying law, CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday.Last week, Britain published a draft law that...

Beer merger won’t bring Budweiser, Miller under same roof

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2015 | 3:14 PMAP

The world's two biggest beer makers will join forces to create a company that produces almost a third of the world's beer. But in the United States, the deal will not bring arch rivals Budweiser and Miller under the same roof.Budweiser maker AB...

Myanmar was trapped in a post-election limbo

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2015 | 9:35 AMAP

Human trafficking probe

Published:Wednesday | November 4, 2015 | 1:02 PMAP

(1) Masked police officers stand in front of a house in Essen, Germany, yesterday. Germany's federal police conducted raids against international human trafficking networks across German.(2) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks...

British journalists sentenced

Published:Tuesday | November 3, 2015 | 10:53 AMAP

Police in south Nepal fire at protesters; Indian man killed

Published:Monday | November 2, 2015 | 12:09 PMAP

NEPALKATHMANDU, (AP):Police shot at ethnic protesters who attacked a police station with gasoline bomb and stones on Nepal's southern border, killing an Indian man who was among the attackers, Nepalese officials said.Police official Raju Bahadur...

Cuba's trains offer relaxed view of countryside

Published:Friday | October 30, 2015 | 6:28 PMAP

From east to west, trains offer a fine-grained, slow-moving view of Cuba that few foreigners ever see.Goats graze alongside tracks in the countryside, forcing trains to brake to avoid hitting them. Old American sedans line up at a crossing while...

Mini recalls 86,000 cars to fix power steering problems

Published:Thursday | October 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP

Under pressure from United States safety regulators, BMW's Mini brand is recalling more than 86,000 cars because the power steering could fail.The recall covers the Mini Cooper and Cooper S...

Some big UK firms to use 'blind recruitment' to reduce bias

Published:Monday | October 26, 2015 | 10:17 AMAP

UNITED KINGDOMLONDON, (AP):Britain's civil service and several major companies have agreed to recruit university graduates and apprentices without knowing the applicants' names in an effort to eliminate bias against people from ethnic minorities....

Tech companies face rocky road on the way to making cars

Published:Friday | October 23, 2015 | 3:50 PMAP

Silicon Valley may think it can build a better car. But should it?As tech giants like Google and Apple look to automobiles as the next frontier for innovation, they face a looming reality: Cars are a lot harder to manufacture and sell than...

European Central Bank opens door to more stimulus

Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP

CITING WORRIES about China and developing markets, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday signalled it could increase monetary stimulus to the Eurozone at a meeting in December.The...

Maduro vows to tighten price controls

Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is vowing to expand price controls in a bid to battle rampant inflation.Maduro said on Tuesday that he will increase enforcement of rules that limit the profit retailers can...

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