A group of people pose for pictures with Wayne Garrett and Caitlind Brown of Canada’s light installation “Cloud” during a media preview of...
A group of people pose for pictures with Wayne Garrett and Caitlind Brown of Canada’s light installation “Cloud” during a media preview of...
Japanese Misao Okawa, the world’s oldest woman, eats her birthday cake as she celebrates her 116th birthday in Osaka, western Japan, yesterday. TOKYO:...
LONDON: Dennis Aabo Sorensen lost his left hand when a firework rocket he was holding exploded during New Year’s Eve celebrations 10 years...
PARIS: Inspired by nature and by the aviation pioneers of the early 20th century, scientists in the United States said yesterday they had...
A Chinese security guard stands outside the entrance of an aquarium specialising in sharks in Beijing yesterday. China is under increasing pressure from...
BRUSSELS: The Belgian capital has long been known for the quality of its fine dining, but Brussels is fast emerging as a major...
LONDON: Rugby and soccer players who suffer multiple knocks to the head during their careers are at added risk of brain damage that...
WASHINGTON: Many of the ills of the modern world — starvation, poverty, flooding, heatwaves, droughts, war and disease — are likely to worsen...
Newly graduated Libyan police officers show their skills during their graduation ceremony in Tripoli yesterday.
NEW YORK: A heavy turkey dinner caused one worker to sleep through his shift. Another said his false teeth flew out the car...
The most recent data, from 2010, shows that 223,000 lung cancer deaths worldwide were the result of air pollution. GENEVA: The World Health...
A man slips on tomatoes during a tomato fight activity at a park in Changsha, China’s Hunan province. The organiser prepared around 10...
New York: When should society intervene if a person shows signs of mental illness? As with the shooters at Virginia Tech University, in...
PANAMA CITY: A top UN official says the global Aids epidemic could be over by 2030 because of progress made in treatment and...
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, with their newborn baby, Prince George of Cambridge, and Lupo, the couple’s...
Britain’s Minister for Women and Equalities, Jo Swinson, has criticised the OK! magazine for featuring an “exclusive duchess diet and shape-up plan” and...
Dance instructor Lucy Bowen McCauley (right) leads a Dance for Parkinson’s Disease class at the Maryland Youth Ballet Studio in Silver Spring. By...
PHNOM PENH: A dozen Renaissance villas built by Italy’s powerful Medici family and monuments from North Korea’s medieval city of Kaesong were granted...
