image BERLIN: Pep Guardiola secured the Bundesliga title in record time on Tuesday, then promptly praised the work of his Bayern Munich predecessor Jupp Heynckes, whose record the Spaniard broke. Bayern claimed their 24th German league title with a ...

image GENEVAL: Egypt's mass sentencing to death of 529 alleged supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi is a breach of international human rights law, the United Nations said Tuesday. "The astounding number of people sentenced to death in this ...

image ISLAMABAD: Humans can distinguish at least one trillion different smells, millions more than previously anticipated, a new study has found. For decades, it has been believed that humans are capable of discriminating between 10,000 different smells, ...

image KIEV: Ukraine's prime minister heads for talks on Wednesday with US President Barack Obama aimed at winning vital aid and moral backing amid Crimea's plans to join Russia in the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War. The first meeting between ...

image PUTRAJAYA: A Malaysian court sentenced opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to five years in jail on Friday after finding the former deputy prime minister guilty of sodomising his aide in 2008. The maximum punishment for the offence was a jail term of up ...

image TRIPOLI: Saadi Qadhafi, the playboy son of dead dictator Moamer who has been turned over by Niger to Libya, had been off the radar since fleeing across the desert in 2011. On August 21 that year, Saadi had said during the uprising against his father ...

image BEIJING: China on Wednesday extended its spending spree on the world's largest armed forces, unveiling a 12.2 percent increase in the defence budget for 2014 and provoking fresh concern in rival Japan. Beijing has for years been raising spending ...

image ISLAMABAD: Microsoft founder Bill Gates has regained the top spot as the world's richest person, according to Forbes magazine's annual ranking of global billionaires. Mr Gates' total net worth was estimated at $76bn (45.5bn) this year, up from $67bn ...

image HONG KONG: Asian markets mostly rose on bargain-buying on Tuesday after the previous day's global sell-off, but investors remain on edge as they await world leaders' response to Russia's decision to sent forces into Ukraine. While the international ...

image BEIRUT: Hezbollah on Wednesday confirmed an Israeli air raid two days earlier on one of its positions in Lebanon and vowed to respond "at the appropriate time" to the "blatant aggression". "On Monday night... the Israeli enemy's warplanes ...

According to American media reports Grammy-nominated singer Robin Thicke and his actress wife of nine years Paula Patton are calling it quits. The couple, who has been married since 2005, said in a joint statement that even though they have decided to ...

image KIEV: Ukraine issued an arrest warrant on Monday for its ousted pro-Russian president over "mass murder" and appealed for $35 billion in Western aid as Moscow denounced Kiev's new reformist team as illegitimate. The dramatic announcements by ...

image CARACAS: Venezuela's government, in the midst of its deepest and deadliest crisis to date, rallied hundreds of supporters Sunday to Caracas's streets. Groups of mainly elderly people marched Sunday in downtown Caracas in support of President ...

image MEXICO CITY: Mexican authorities are hunting for the number two leader of the country's most powerful drug cartel after capturing the gang's kingpin this weekend, an official said Sunday. Mexican marines swooped on Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El ...

image SEOUL: LG will launch its first smartwatch in 2014, the head of its mobile unit said Monday, tapping into the nascent market for wearable devices seen as the mobile industry's new source of growth. The announcement from the South Korean ...

image KIEV: Riot police launched a fresh assault on protesters in central Kiev early Wednesday, escalating a bloody standoff that has already left at least 18 people dead in a dramatic turning point for Ukraine's three-month political crisis. A volley of tear gas ...

image KIEV: Flames engulfed the main anti-government protest camp on Kiev's Independence Square on Tuesday as riot police tried to force demonstrators out following the bloodiest clashes in three months of protests. The iconic square turned into a war ...

image WASHINGTON: Moody's kept Italy's debt rating unchanged at a low Baa2 investment grade Friday but improved its outlook from negative to stable as the country moved to choose a new premier. The ratings agency cited the "resilience" of government ...