AT least 17 people were killed when a passenger plane caught fire during its landing in northeastern Iran yesterday, the state IRNA news agency reported.…
THE United States and India said yesterday that they had agreed on a defence pact that takes a major step toward allowing the sale of…
THE first astronauts to walk on the moon want United States President Barack Obama to aim for a new goal: Mars. Early this morning (Singapore…
A MALAYSIAN prince has denied claims by an Indonesian teen model that he slashed her with razor blades, locked her up and used her as…
DEFIANTLY low-tech yet accurate to the second, Big Ben is having its 150th birthday tomorrow, its Victorian chimes carrying the sound of Britain into the…
The EF∙Royal Cornell Big Ben Awards for the Top Ten Outstanding Young Chinese in the UK (TOCYP-UK) were presented in Le Méridien Piccadilly London on…
SCIENTISTS are airlifting dozens of one of the world’s largest frogs off Montserrat island to save them from a deadly fungus. The dense forest of…
THE first Broadway revival of “Bye Bye Birdie” has found a home. The Roundabout Theatre Company says it will open the musical on October 15…
The New York Times Co has threatened to shut The Boston Globe unless the newspaper’s unions quickly agree to US$20 million in concessions, the Globe…
THAI anti-government protesters ended a three-week siege of the prime minister’s office today, easing fears for the time being that prolonged turmoil would further damage…