Jakarta: On the streets of Jakarta on presidential election day, it's either Prabowo Subianto's toughness, or Joko Widodo as the man of the people that Indonesians are voting for. “Jokowi is for the people, a leader who is born from the people and he's for the ...

India lock horns with England in a five-Test series. The visitors would be looking to exorcise the ghosts of their last visit to England where they were hammered 4-0 by the hosts. India have been defeated in their last two series' by England and overall too, ...

Hopes that 200 schoolgirls held captive could be rescued were raised last night after Nigeria's National Council of State promised to deliver “some good news” very soon. The council, made up of past presidents, state governors and leaders of parliament, said ...

NAIROBI, July 9 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - - - EVENTS KENYA - Central Bank of Kenya auctions 182-day Treasury bills and 364-day bills . BOTSWANA - Botswana issues first quarter GDP figures . MOZAMBIQUE - Statistics office releases monthly consumer inflation data . GHANA - Ghana Statistical

Washington: In an unusual personal intervention in a foreign election, US President Barack Obama has asked the two presidential candidates in Afghanistan's disputed polls to maintain calm and threatened to cut-off American aid if "extra-constitutional" steps ...

Airline passengers entering and leaving the UK on potentially any routes, including transatlantic ones and those connecting with mainland Europe, will be expected to be show that electronic devices in their hand luggage can be powered up, British ...

The sixth round of China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue has opened here in Beijing. The two-day event brings together senior diplomats and officials from both sides. The S&ED will be co-chaired by Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang and State ...

image WASHINGTON: Afghanistan's capricious politics and fresh claims of poll fraud Tuesday clouded President Barack Obama's search for a "responsible" exit from Afghanistan by year's end. The United States, which pointedly stayed mute during two ...

By Richard Balmforth and Maria Tsvetkova. KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) - Ukraine's government kept up military pressure against pro-Russian rebels on Tuesday, threatening them with an "nasty surprise", while the militants said they were preparing to ...

China's President Xi Jinping called for greater military communication with the U.S., saying as he opened high-level talks between the two countries that any conflict would be a global disaster. China needs a stable environment “more than ever,” and it's ...