Scientists have defended their decision to issue a tsunami warning to dozens of countries around the Pacific rim following Saturday's powerful magnitude 8.8 quake in Chile.
Scientists have defended their decision to issue a tsunami warning to dozens of countries around the Pacific rim following Saturday's powerful magnitude 8.8 quake in Chile.
Scientists have defended their decision to issue a tsunami warning to dozens of countries around the Pacific rim following Saturday's powerful magnitude 8.8 quake in Chile.
The Sunday Times has confirmed that they will be sticking to their weekend headline story despite denials from President Jacob Zuma's office that chief operations officer, Jessie Duarte, has resigned.
The mother of a murder suspect has urged him to hand himself in after his girlfriend and baby were found dead. The bodies of Stephanie Bellinger, 24, and eight-month-old daughter Lily were found at their home in Totton, near Southampton, in Hampshire...
By Zephania Ubwani, Arusha The recent licensing of motorcycles for passenger transport, may have contributed to a sharp increase of road accidents countrywide, according to a survey.
By S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 28 February 2010 1608 hrs SINGAPORE : Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has said the country's drive to improve its productivity levels by two to three per cent each year needs the whole nation's...
BUTANA Komphela, chairman of Parliament's sports portfolio committee, inadvertently captured the spirit of the nation last week when he fancifully claimed, with a morose expression on his face, that the party has begun .
By Zephania Ubwani, Arusha The recent licensing of motorcycles for passenger transport, may have contributed to a sharp increase of road accidents countrywide, according to a survey.
A Chama Cha Mapinduzi cadre in Kahama District, has declared his intention to face the seating MP for Kahama constituency, Mr James Lembeli, during this year's General Election.
Scientists have acknowledged that they overstated the threat from the tsunami triggered by the Chilean earthquake, but defended their actions, saying they took the proper steps and learned the lessons of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami that killed...
By S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 28 February 2010 1608 hrs SINGAPORE : Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has said the country's drive to improve its productivity levels by two to three per cent each year needs the whole nation's...
NEVER mind the drop in visitorship this year - organisers of the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas) fair saw its sales figures scale a new high.
AP / March 1, 2010 President Obama has not kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendonitis in his left knee, and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded Sunday yesterday after...
AP / March 1, 2010 President Obama has not kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendonitis in his left knee, and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded Sunday yesterday after...
AP / March 1, 2010 President Obama has not kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendonitis in his left knee, and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded Sunday yesterday after...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak spent about 30 minutes visiting the Craft Festival held in conjunction with the National Craft Day 2010 at the Kuala Lumpur Craft Complex in Jalan Conlay here Friday.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak spent about 30 minutes visiting the Craft Festival held in conjunction with the National Craft Day 2010 at the Kuala Lumpur Craft Complex in Jalan Conlay here Friday.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak spent about 30 minutes visiting the Craft Festival held in conjunction with the National Craft Day 2010 at the Kuala Lumpur Craft Complex in Jalan Conlay here Friday.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak spent about 30 minutes visiting the Craft Festival held in conjunction with the National Craft Day 2010 at the Kuala Lumpur Craft Complex in Jalan Conlay here Friday.
TOKYO: Japanese authorities warned of a tsunami risk across wide areas of the Pacific after a major earthquake struck Chile Saturday, with US geologists saying the risk extended as far as the Antarctic.
TOKYO: Japanese authorities warned of a tsunami risk across wide areas of the Pacific after a major earthquake struck Chile Saturday, with US geologists saying the risk extended as far as the Antarctic.
TOKYO: Japanese authorities warned of a tsunami risk across wide areas of the Pacific after a major earthquake struck Chile Saturday, with US geologists saying the risk extended as far as the Antarctic.
TOKYO: Japanese authorities warned of a tsunami risk across wide areas of the Pacific after a major earthquake struck Chile Saturday, with US geologists saying the risk extended as far as the Antarctic.
ASIA will be helping itself as well if it does more to engage Africa and partner the continent in its development, said former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan on Friday.
NEW DELHI: India has refused to restart the composite dialogue with Pakistan just yet, though the government described the foreign secretary talks as "frank, constructive and useful".
After announcing that he was in possession of the DNA of at least one of the assassins of senior Hamas figure Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim called on Mossad Chief Meir Dagan to "own up to his crime or unequivocally deny his...
By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian coffee prices continued their downward spiral at this week's auction, with a limited quantity of the crop changing hands, traders said on Friday.
Thousand of miles of the South American coastline were on tsunami alert on Saturday after one of the biggest earthquakes in modern times struck southern Chile.
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck south-central Chile early on Saturday, killing at least six people, triggering a tsunami and rattling buildings in the capital Santiago.
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck south-central Chile early on Saturday, killing at least six people, triggering a tsunami and rattling buildings in the capital Santiago.
Australia's east coast has been put on tsunami watch following a major 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile where at least six people have been killed.
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck south-central Chile early on Saturday, killing at least six people, triggering a tsunami and rattling buildings in the capital Santiago.
Southern African Development Community tribunal rulings against the seizure of farmers' land in Zimbabwe should be registered, recognised and enforceable by the South African government, the High Court in Pretoria ordered.
BY PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 26 - President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga have reaffirmed the government's commitment to serve Kenyans and uplift their living standards despite the differences of opinions of the...
In remarks to The Straits Times on Thursday, a defiant Dr Ionescu (pictured) said: 'I read in newspapers that prosecutors (in Singapore) were accusing me long before they had the right to.
Austin, Texas (CNN) -- A man accused of flying a small plane into an Austin building housing an Internal Revenue Service office last week was one of two people killed in the incident, Texas authorities confirmed Monday.
Austin, Texas (CNN) -- A man accused of flying a small plane into an Austin building housing an Internal Revenue Service office last week was one of two people killed in the incident, Texas authorities confirmed Monday.
Austin, Texas (CNN) -- A man accused of flying a small plane into an Austin building housing an Internal Revenue Service office last week was one of two people killed in the incident, Texas authorities confirmed Monday.
Austin, Texas (CNN) -- A man accused of flying a small plane into an Austin building housing an Internal Revenue Service office last week was one of two people killed in the incident, Texas authorities confirmed Monday.
Goran Tomasevic, Reuters A US Marine fires at Taliban fighters in Marjah, in southern Afghanistan, yesterday. NATO setbacks have overshadowed recent successes, including the capture of the Taliban's top military commander.
THE Romanian Embassy on Tuesday officially responded to requests by the Singapore's Foreign Ministry over the hit-and-run case involving a car allegedly driven by the embassy's charge d'affaires in Singapore.
SINGAPORE: Romanian diplomat Silviu Ionescu's driver, Marius Trusca, "will assist the State Coroner" in investigations into the hit-and-run accident linked to Dr Ionescu.
Johannesburg - The Constitutional Court finding that victims have to be heard before perpetrators of political violence are pardoned was welcomed by the Democratic Alliance on Tuesday.
BELFAST (Reuters) - Irish and British politicians on Tuesday condemned a car bomb attack outside a Northern Irish courthouse some two weeks after a deal on policing the province secured the future of its fragile power-sharing executive.
"We will empower dissatisfied parents with a new right to initiate a change of leadership," said Gordon Brown. Photograph: Frank Baron Parents will be able to vote on whether to get rid of the leadership of their child's school and have a university,...
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- French air-traffic controllers began a four-day strike and British Airways Plc stepped up talks aimed at avoiding a walkout by cabin crew as air travel across Europe faces mounting disruption...
FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Deutsche Lufthansa AG (LHA.XE) said Tuesday it will add 400 additional flights to its flight plan Wednesday and expects a normalization of flight schedules by Friday at the latest, after a German labor court ordered striking...
By ThisDay Reporter IT has been a common view among political thinkers that there exists a special relationship between moral goodness and legitimate authority.
NIAMEY, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Markets, banks and schools in Niger's capital opened as usual on Friday, a day after troops ousted President Mamadou Tandja in a military coup, and the only soldiers on the streets were few and...
NIAMEY, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Markets, banks and schools in Niger's capital opened as usual on Friday, a day after troops ousted President Mamadou Tandja in a military coup, and the only soldiers on the streets were few and...
NIAMEY, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Markets, banks and schools in Niger's capital opened as usual on Friday, a day after troops ousted President Mamadou Tandja in a military coup, and the only soldiers on the streets were few and...
NIAMEY, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Markets, banks and schools in Niger's capital opened as usual on Friday, a day after troops ousted President Mamadou Tandja in a military coup, and the only soldiers on the streets were few and...
The sheer volume of flames and smoke pouring from the Austin office building where a suicidal pilot slammed his plane at full speed has prompted authorities to investigate whether he had some kind of explosive on board...
The sheer volume of flames and smoke pouring from the Austin office building where a suicidal pilot slammed his plane at full speed has prompted authorities to investigate whether he had some kind of explosive on board...
The sheer volume of flames and smoke pouring from the Austin office building where a suicidal pilot slammed his plane at full speed has prompted authorities to investigate whether he had some kind of explosive on board...
The sheer volume of flames and smoke pouring from the Austin office building where a suicidal pilot slammed his plane at full speed has prompted authorities to investigate whether he had some kind of explosive on board...
Iran's supreme leader has denied it is developing nuclear weapons, after a new report from the UN atomic watchdog, the IAEA, sparked an international outcry.
Niger President Mamadou Tandja as seen at the 2nd Africa-South America Summit in Venezuela, on September 27, 2009. (CNN) -- A top African Union official Friday denounced the military coup in Niger and called for a quick return of "constitutional order...
Sydney Morning Herald -Paul Mcgeough -29 minutes ago
THAT same old feeling for Benjamin Netanyahu must be excruciating. And it is probably cold comfort for the Israeli Prime Minister that his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, is likely to suffer along with him.
SINGAPORE citizens and permanent residents (PRs) receive very different treatment in government policies, and this distinction has sharpened further in recent months, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday.
All fired up ... Joe Stack. Photo: AP AUSTIN, Texas: In a rambling, obscenity-laced suicide note posted online, the pilot accused of flying his plane into an Austin office building takes aim at the Internal Revenue Service, religion, big business and...
The African Union has condemned a coup in Niger, where soldiers have detained President Mamadou Tandja. AU chief Jean Ping said he was watching developments "with concern" after a day of gun battles culminated in a takeover led by Colonel Salou Djibo.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Soldados en veh?culos blindados irrumpieron en el palacio presidencial disparando sus armas a pleno d?a el jueves en un aparente intento de golpe de estado en N?ger, un pa?s del oeste de Africa rico en uranio....
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Soldados en veh?culos blindados irrumpieron en el palacio presidencial disparando sus armas a pleno d?a el jueves en un aparente intento de golpe de estado en N?ger, un pa?s del oeste de Africa rico en uranio....
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Soldados en veh?culos blindados irrumpieron en el palacio presidencial disparando sus armas a pleno d?a el jueves en un aparente intento de golpe de estado en N?ger, un pa?s del oeste de Africa rico en uranio....
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Soldados en veh?culos blindados irrumpieron en el palacio presidencial disparando sus armas a pleno d?a el jueves en un aparente intento de golpe de estado en N?ger, un pa?s del oeste de Africa rico en uranio....
Tensions have resurfaced between the UK and Argentina over oil exploration at the Falkland Islands. Some of the islands' inhabitants give their views here on just what the discovery of oil would mean to their community.