JUST IN: OVER 170 FEARED DEAD AFTER SOUTH KOREA PLANE CRASHES IN MUAN
A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival Sunday, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, leaving...
MALAYSIA CONSTRUCTION WORKER FLOGGED IN MOSQUE FOR CRIME OF GENDER MIXING
Agency Report A man was flogged inside a Malaysia mosque on Friday after being convicted of an Islamic offence for spending time alone with a...
INDIA’S FORMER PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH DIES AT 92
Agency Report Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose economic reforms made his country a global powerhouse, has died at the age of 92....
WORLD NEWS: NEPAL HOSTS HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL
With Nepal’s snowy Himalayan peaks as a backdrop, the sky above Pokhara transformed into a vibrant canvas of colours for the country’s first hot-air balloon...
FORMER US PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL
Former US president Bill Clinton left hospital Tuesday, his office said, a day after he was admitted with a fever in the latest in a...
FOREIGN: DEATH TOLL IN BRAZIL BUS CRASH RISES TO 41
Authorities on Sunday raised to 41 the death toll in a weekend bus crash in southeastern Brazil that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called...
WORLD NEWS: ONE MISSING AFTER OIL RIG SINKS OFF TRINIDAD
An oil rig sank in the waters off Trinidad Sunday, leaving one worker missing, the company and oil workers union said. The rig, operated by...
ANOTHER TRAGEDY: STAGE COLLAPSES AS ODUMODUBLVCK PERFORMS LIVE IN LAGOS (VIDEO)
The Nativeland Festival held in Lagos took a sad turn when the stage collapsed during a performance by popular Nigerian rapper Odumodublvck, leaving the...
WORLD NEWS: FRANCE WITHDRAWS FIRST CONTINGENT OF SOLDIERS FROM CHAD
France began withdrawing soldiers from Chad on Friday, the country’s defence ministry said, after N’Djamena last month abruptly ended military cooperation with the former colonial...
NIGER REP. MILITARY JUNTA SUMMONS NIGERIAN ENVOY OVER SECURITY ISSUES
The foreign minister of junta-ruled Niger has summoned the charge d’affaires at the Nigerian embassy, accusing the neighbouring nation of “serving as a rear base”...