LONDON (TIP): In a suspected case of cannibalism, a 22- year-old woman was killed and her suspected attacker died during interrogation after he was caught allegedly eating parts of the woman’s face at a hotel […]
LONDON: British police have arrested four men suspected of preparing terrorists acts. Police said on November 6 the arrests and searches of several properties in west London and the Thames Valley are part of an […]
BEIJING (TIP): Mexico has suddenly canceled a $3.75 billion contract to buy bullet trains from China. This is a major blow to the Chinese railway manufacturing industry, which is trying to sell high-speed trains to […]
PATTAYA (TIP): A 22-year-old Venezuelan was crowned “Miss International Queen” on November 7 night at a beauty contest that bills itself as the world’s largest and promotes the rights of transsexuals and transvestites. Isabella Santiago […]
THE HAGUE (TIP): Police have closed hundreds of online “dark” markets selling illegal drugs, weapons and services, arresting 17 people in a massive international operation against the Tor network that allows users to be invisible […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The Australian government on November 6 awarded 60 scholarships to Indian scholars to undertake study and research in the country. “I congratulate the successful recipients of Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships. The fact […]
LONDON (TIP): Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was forced to leave a ‘Million March’ to protest “rights violations” in Kashmir here on Sunday after bottles, eggs and cans were thrown at him. Police […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan has emerged as the world’s second-worst country in terms of gender equality, according to the annual Global Gender Gap Report published by the World Economic Forum. The report, published on Tuesday, measures […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan’s rival presidential candidates signed a deal to share power in a unity government on Sunday, capping months of turmoil over a disputed election that destabilised the nation at a crucial time as […]
KATMANDU: Doctors say Nepal’s former king has suffered a heart attack and has been hospitalized. Dr Bharat Rawat at the Norvic Hospital in Katmandu said Gyanendra Shah was brought to the hospital Saturday night. He […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence of Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a top Islamist preacher whose sentencing last year triggered the deadliest political violence in the country’s history, , to life […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Pope Francis may make a 17th century priest Sri Lanka’s first Roman Catholic saint during his trip next year, making good on his promise to give Asia more saints as models for the […]
JERUSALEM (TIP): Clashes raged in east Jerusalem on October 30 after police shot dead a Palestinian accused of trying to kill a Jewish hardliner, prompting officials to close the flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque compound. Israel said […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): A newly-built gurdwara has become target of anti-Islamic slurs after it was vandalized and painted with obscene messages in Australia’s Perth city. The multi-million dollar Sikh shrine in Bennett Springs was painted with […]
OUAGADOUGOU (TIP): Around 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured in violence that rocked Burkina Faso on Thursday, leading opposition figure Benewende Sankara told AFP. It was not clear if the toll related […]
BEIJING (TIP): The Communist Party of China has kicked out a tycoon from its top political advisory body who criticized the chief executive of Hong Kong C Y Leung during the pro-democracy protest. Hong Kong-based […]
BRUSSELS (TIP): Ukraine, Russia and the European Union signed a deal on October 30 on the resumption of Russian natural gas supplies to Ukraine for winter after several months of delay during the conflict in […]
LONDON (TIP): A 24-year-old Indian-origin taxi driver, who is also a bhangra singer, has been jailed for nine months for a sex attack on a passenger in the English town of Nottingham. Dhanraj Singh was […]
SURUC, TURKEY/BEIRUT (TIP): A first group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Thursday to help push back Islamic State militants who have defied US air strikes and threatened […]
KARACHI (TIP): At least 16 cabin crew members of Pakistan’s national carrier have disappeared in the last five months in Canada after going there on international flights. Four cabin crew of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) […]
KABUL (TIP): Afghan security forces said on Thursday they have captured two senior leaders of the feared Haqqani network, a hardline group behind sophisticated attacks on Afghan and Nato forces. Anas Haqqani, the son of […]
KATMANDU (NEPAL) (TIP): Nepalese officials closed a section of a popular Himalayan trekking route on October 20 after rescuers, overwhelmed with last week’s snowstorms that killed 38 hikers, had to bring to safety new climbers […]
KARACHI (TIP): Queen of Pop Madonna’s school in Karachi has opened its gates to students. The 56-year-old “Material Girl” singer took to Twitter to announce that the Dream Model Street School has so far admitted […]
KARACHI (TIP): Armed robbers have raided one of Pakistan’s leading charities and stolen $400,000 in cash as well as five kilos of gold, police said on Monday. At least eight robbers struck at the Edhi […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan military has identified 2,377 “legitimate claimants” to handback a considerable stock of gold and jewellery it seized in the final battle against the LTTE more than five years ago. Rejecting accusations levelled […]
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