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Sunday Spotlight, Published on 29/01/2023
» British actor Bill Nighy was trying to describe how he prepared for his character in the new drama Living. He plays Mr Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat in post-World War II London who, upon learning that he is dying, decides finally to live.
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/04/2020
» Seventy coronavirus vaccines are in development globally, with three already being tested in human trials, the World Health Organization said. The northeastern Chinese city of Harbin tightened rules to curb the spread of the virus.
Asia focus, Published on 02/09/2019
» One of the most pressing challenges the world is facing as a result of climate change is rising sea levels. Scientists predict that oceans will rise by between 0.3 and 2.5 metres by 2100. This will put many coastal areas at risk, with potentially catastrophic consequences for large cities.
Published on 11/06/2018
» SINGAPORE: Two days after arguing with western allies at the G-7 summit over trade, President Trump is prepared to declare victory in talks with nuclear-armed North Korea - regardless of what happens.
AFP, Published on 02/04/2018
» ISLAMABAD: Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai Monday left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials said.
Published on 04/01/2018
» TEHRAN: Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday declared an end to the anti-establishment unrest that has roiled the Islamic Republic and left about 20 people dead over the past week.
Reuters, Published on 22/11/2017
» THE HAGUE: Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was found guilty of genocide by a UN war crimes tribunal on Wednesday and sentenced to life in prison for orchestrating massacres and ethnic cleansing during Bosnia's war.
Reuters, Published on 15/09/2017
» YANGON: The rights group Amnesty International said evidence pointing to a "mass-scale scorched-earth campaign" across the north of Rakhine state was unmistakably ethnic cleansing, while Myanmar insisted on Friday it was not barring aid workers from Rakhine State, where a counter-insurgency campaign has sparked an exodus of Muslim Rohingya refugees -- although authorities on the ground might restrict access 'for security reasons'.
New York Times, Published on 18/06/2017
» LONDON -- London police said Saturday that the death toll from the inferno at the Grenfell Tower in west London had risen to 58.
Published on 28/10/2012
» LONDON : One-time British pop star and serial child-sex detainee Gary Glitter was arrested again on Sunday as part of an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile.