Region

Yemen Shi'ite rebels free 178 soldiers, civilians

Prisoners handed over in the northern province of Saada.
Calls in Bahrain to expel British envoy

Ambassador accused of political interference.
Geneva authorities ‘to compensate Gadhafi’s son’

Geneva authorities say they are willing to pay compensation to the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for the ...
Bahrain flays attack on UK embassy

Bahrain's foreign minister yesterday condemned a minor bomb attack on the British embassy in Manama, saying his ...
Iran softens stance with nuclear offer

Iran has offered a one-shot nuclear fuel exchange on its own soil, edging closer to the conditions of a plan drawn up ...
Israel-US diplomatic crisis deepens

Israeli PM Netanyahu defies Washington by rejecting curbs on settlements around Jerusalem.
Iranian filmmaker's wife unable to see him

The wife of top Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi said yesterday that she has been unable to see her husband in Tehran's ...
TV shows footage of 'upbeat' Mubarak

Egyptian television yesterday aired footage of President Hosni Mubarak for the first time since his March 6 surgery in ...
Afghanistan denies peace talks with Taliban No2

Afghanistan's government denied a report yesterday that it had been holding secret peace talks with the Taliban's ...
Car bomb in Iraq kills 7, wounds 20

A car bomb in Iraq's Anbar province killed seven civilians and wounded 20 yesterday, as Iraq struggles to end years of ...

Opinion

Google's China dilemma: stay or go

China accounts for only one per cent of Google’s global revenue.
Mongolia walking a tightrope

Mongolia’s biggest challenge is its economic dependence on China.
Emerging markets stay unchanged

Latin American markets were the top performers last month.

Editor's Choice

Developers begin repossessing units

At least two major companies have taken back units from defaulters who have failed to rectify their status.
Small and medium insurance firms are turning 'brokers'

Companies are focusing on short-term profit.
American flight attendants may go on strike

American Airlines may be the next carrier to follow in British Airways footsteps.

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St Patrick's Day peps up Irish tourism

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Iran softens stance with nuclear offer

Iran has offered a one-shot nuclear fuel exchange on its own soil, edging closer to the conditions of a plan drawn up ...
Aga Khan's art riches on display

More than 200 items from the Aga Khan's collection of more than 1,000 years of Islamic art, one of the world's largest ...
Cabin crew jailed over lewd texts: report

Flight attendant and supervisor convicted of 'coercion to commit sin' after sending sexually-themed texts.
Lloyd Webber puts a Picasso up for sale

Christie's has put a record price tag on an important Picasso painting from his celebrated Blue Period that will be ...