Nigeria, US agree to fight nuclear proliferation

ABUJA: Nigeria and the United States have agreed to work together to counter the spread of nuclear weapons, a senior US official said after a weekend

Developing nations want 2011 climate accord deadline

CAPE TOWN: A group of developing countries, among the world’s fastest growing carbon emitters, said on Sunday a legally binding global agreement to li

Mass sickness hits 80 Afghan schoolgirls

KABUL: Dozens of Afghan schoolgirls have fallen ill in recent days after reporting a strange odour in their classrooms in northern Afghanistan, prompt

Japanese PM in a pinch

TOKYO: Nearly 100,000 people rallied on Japan’s Okinawa on Sunday to demand a US airbase be moved off the island, media said, deepening the prime mini

UAE urges Iran to end ‘occupation of islands’

RAMALLAH, West Bank: The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates refused to back down in the face of Iranian anger and repeated on Sunday his cal

Liberia weighing trials for ‘war crimes’

MONROVIA: Liberia is considering trying perpetrators of the worst crimes committed during its 1989-2003 civil war, in which child soldiers were recrui

Berlin struggles to sell ‘Afghan War’ to gun-shy Germans

Sixty-five years after the war, the German government is struggling to sell a largely pacifist electorate on the notion that the military is there to

Green tea helps prevent eye disease

LONDON: Green tea has always been known for its antioxidant effects and disease fighting properties, but now researchers say the benefits could help t

Two killed as hot air balloon crashes in UAE

DUBAI: A hot air balloon with 14 people aboard crashed in a desert area east of Abu Dhabi on Sunday, killing a French person and an Indian national, t

UK’s richest see their fortunes soar

LONDON: British-based steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal topped the list of Britain’s richest people once again as the wealthiest in the country saw their f

Sri Lanka considers ending emergency laws

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka may scrap the state of emergency laws that gave sweeping powers to police and troops during the island’s long ethnic conflict with

Abbas invited to Washington as US ramps up ‘peace efforts’

OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: Rock-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli police on Sunday near a march being held by Israeli right wingers through a tense ne