Motor Racing: Vettel Move Stirs Up Team Orders Controversy
LONDON: The 2013 Formula One season may be only two races old, but it has already conjured up a new ‘team orders’ controversy that has divided opinion and prompted tragic…
“I Love Paris” May Soon Be Passe For Chinese Tourists
PARIS: Mass muggings and attacks on Chinese tourists in Paris have spawned alarm and warnings of a decline in the number of free-spending visitors from the Asian giant who swarm…
N. Korea Threatens To Close Joint Industrial Complex
SEOUL: North Korea on Saturday threatened to shut down a joint industrial complex with South Korea, state media said, in the latest warning from Pyongyang at a time of escalated…
First Body Reportedly Found After China Landslide Buries 83
BEIJING: Rescue teams found the first body Saturday almost 36 hours after a giant landslide in Tibet buried 83 mine workers under two million cubic metres of earth, China’s state…
Bomb Kills Two Paramilitaries In Thai South
BANGKOK: A roadside bomb and gun attack killed two Thai military rangers and wounded four others on Saturday, police said, two days after the country held its first formal peace…
Cyprus Bank Savers Face Bigger Than Feared Losses
NICOSIA: Big savers in Cyprus’s largest bank face losses of up to 60 percent, far greater than originally feared under the island’s controversial EU-led bailout plan, officials said on Saturday….
All SUTD Students To Be Engaged In Research Before Graduating
SINGAPORE: The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is aiming for all of its undergraduates to be engaged in research by the time they graduate. It’s a goal set…
London’s Olympic Park Opened To Public Tours
LONDON: The public were allowed into Britain’s Olympic Park this weekend for the first time since the 2012 Games, with a behind-the-scenes tour of its transformation into a new neighbourhood…
World Muslim Body To Meet On Myanmar Violence
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: The head of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said on Saturday that ministers from OIC states will meet on April 14 in Saudi Arabia to discuss…
Four Arrested Over Sri Lanka Anti-Muslim Attack: Police
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s police arrested four people and were looking for more suspects on Saturday over the smashing of a Muslim-owned clothing store that raised religious tensions in the country,…
Govt Committed To Allocating Resources To Ensure Tamil Continues To Thrive
SINGAPORE: The Singapore government is committed to allocating the necessary resources to ensure that the Tamil language continues to thrive in the country, says Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office,…
Man Nabbed, Drugs Seized At Checkpoint
SINGAPORE: Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers arrested a Malaysian national and seized about 745 grammes of heroin and 279 grammes of cannabis from the man at the Woodlands Checkpoint on…
Mobile Shines In Exploding World Of Game
SAN FRANCISCO: The booming popularity of play on smartphones or tablet computers in a realm once dominated by videogame consoles was a hot theme at the major Game Developers Conference…
Pope Marks First Good Friday With Torch-Lit Ceremony
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis marked his first Good Friday with a traditional torch-lit ceremony around the Colosseum in Rome and prayers for a Middle East “torn apart by injustice and…
Film Probes Washington Sniper Murders
NEW YORK: Joining a cacophonous debate over gun violence in the United States, a new film probes behind the headlines of a 2002 shooting spree that terrorised the area around…