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…
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 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…
GOOGLE Inc has launched its controversial street-level photo maps in 25 cities in Britain, with new technology to address people’s fears of being captured in…
HILLARY Clinton, starting her first foreign excursion as United States Secretary of State with a week-long trip to Asia, said yesterday the US-Japan alliance remains…