Lost ship recovered after 150 years

TORONTO: Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost i

Japanese near US base wins aircraft noise damages suit

TOKYO: A Japanese appeals court on Thursday ordered the government to pay $4.2 million to residents living near a US base on Okinawa island to compens

At least 140 dead in DR Congo river disaster

KINSHASA: Two children were plucked from the waters around a capsized boat in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the only survivors of a tragedy feared

‘New law will bring the constitution in line with European democracies’

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s main opposition party sent a proposal to parliament on Thursday to amend a 75-year-old law that enshrines the military’s role as gu

US, major powers urged to join cluster munitions pact

GENEVA: Activists called on the United States and other major powers on Thursday to join a global treaty banning cluster munitions that goes into forc

Bangladesh SC bans religion in politics

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has reinstated a ban on Islamic political parties in the latest blow to ‘religious hardliners’ in the impoverished S

Bosnia Serb MPs block census law key to EU ties

SARAJEVO: Deputies from the Bosnian Serbs’ ruling party effectively blocked a new census law seen as important for Bosnia’s closer ties with the Europ

French mom murders eight new-born babies

VILLERS-AU-TERTRE, France: A French nursing assistant admitted on Thursday suffocating eight of her newborn babies and stashing their tiny bodies in p

Arabs agree to Israeli-Palestinian talks

CAIRO: Arab officials agreed in principle on Thursday to the holding of direct Middle East peace negotiations and left it up to Palestinian President

Russia to expand FSB powers

MOSCOW: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed into a law a bill expanding the powers of the successor to the KGB security service which

Don’t eat for two!

LONDON: The traditional advice that expectant mothers should ‘eat for two’ is dangerous, says a report by a British government health watchdog. br

Spanish court orders arrest of US troops

MADRID: A Spanish High Court judge ordered on Thursday the arrest and extradition of three US soldiers for killing a Spanish television cameraman duri