Yemen Blast kills at least 48 outside military camp

A  suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military camp in the southern Yemeni city of Aden yesterday morning, killing at least 48 soldiers, a Health Ministry official

This Day in History | 2003 Libya gives up chemical weapons

Libya has made a surprise announcement undertaking to destroy its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. The government of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has also agreed

Offbeat | Rare plant named after rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix 

California researchers have named a newly discovered rare plant after Jimi Hendrix. The plant, found in Baja California, Mexico, has been christened Dudleya hendrixii , or

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CHINA says its military seized a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater glider in the South China Sea but it would give the drone back. But President-elect Donald Trump tweeted

The buzz | Large complex of amusement parks celebrates opening

A massive complex of amusement parks in the southern desert of Dubai has celebrated its opening. Organizers held the event yesterday for the Dubai Parks & Resorts project

Nature | Grasshoppers a tasty, nutritious holiday treat in Uganda

Children scamper in the bush, jumping here and there to catch grasshoppers before they fly away. On a good day, many will walk away with plastic bags

Feature | Emails show how Russian officials covered up mass doping

Russia's doping cover-up went far beyond the Olympics, according to a vast archive of emails released by a World Anti-Doping Agency investigator. Besides the 12 medal winners from the

USA | The electoral voters speak, and they’re not out for a revolt

Hounded to abandon Donald Trump, Republican electors appear to be in no mood for an insurrection in the presidential campaign’s last voting ritual. This most untraditional of elections

This Day in History | 1977- Queen opens ‘tube’ linkto Heathrow

The Queen has formally unveiled a £71m underground link from central London to Heathrow’s terminals - the first of its kind in the world from a capital

Offbeat | New York, New York! City booked USD629 hotel rooms for homeless people

A report says New York City paid a rate of USD629 a night to house homeless people at a hotel on two days in September. The report was issued

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CHINA Police have detained a prominent human rights campaigner for allegedly using ID that wasn’t his own to buy train tickets, his lawyer said yesterday. Family and

European Parliament to debate state of Poland’s democracy

The European Parliament is preparing to hold its third debate on the state of democracy in Poland since a populist party won last year and moved quickly to cement

Report | Trump’s business ties around the world

Donald Trump says his business is “great,” and you’ll have to trust him on that. One of the few things an outsider can know for sure is that

This Day in hHistory | 1982 – Spain opens border with the rock

The gates isolating the people of Gibraltar from Spain have been opened to pedestrians after 13 years. Spain’s new socialist government opened the frontier

Offbeat | ‘democracy sausage’ snags australia’s official word of 2016

A humble barbequed sausage on a slice of bread sold at polling booths around Australia has been picked as the country’s official word of the year — “democracy

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SPAIN Police say they have arrested more than 200 people of Chinese origin in a crackdown on gangs that ran call centers that swindled 16 million euros from

The Buzz | Mexico Senate passes medical pot bill; sent to lower house

The Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill approving the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the latest in a series of legal changes and court rulings that have somewhat

Beyonce rules again, tops Image Award nominations

Beyonce leads the field in the NAACP Image Award nominations, but there’s a friendly rival close behind: sister Solange. Beyonce received seven nominations for the

Dramatic appeals as Syrian forces poise to take Aleppo

Syrian government forces poised for the final sweep to take the last rebel holdouts in eastern Aleppo yesterday as the international community and aid agencies appealed that

Venezuelans rush to stash cash before biggest bill is voided

Venezuelans were wearily rushing to deposit bank notes or dump their cash savings entirely on Monday following an announcement by President Nicolas Maduro that he was

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