December2017

Australia skipper Steve Smith was denied a fourth consecutive Boxing Day Test century when he was dismissed by England youngster Tom Curran in Melbourne on Wednesday. Smith chopped a short delivery outside off-stump on to his...

Japan’s nuclear watchdog Wednesday gave a formal green light to the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to restart two reactors, the first since the 2011 atomic crisis. The Nuclear Regulation Authority handed its approval...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said open-air events would not be allowed on the 31st Night to celebrate the New Year. The minister also said all bars across the country would remain closed on the...

A Rohingya man had fled Rakhine after the Myanmar military crackdown and had been living in a refugee camp in Teknaf ever since. The intelligence wing of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) of Chittagong has arrested...

Uzbekistan’s Finance Ministry has sacked 562 employees after President Shavkat Mirziyoyev ordered it to root out inefficiency and get rid of what he had called “rats” tarnishing its reputation, the state news agency UzA reported on...

Fewer than 1,000 Islamic State fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, the United States-led international coalition fighting the hardline Sunni militant group said on Wednesday, a third of the estimated figure only three weeks ago. Iraq...

A 2015 deal with Japan over South Korean “comfort women” forced to work in Japan’s wartime military brothels failed to meet the victims’ needs, South Korea said on Wednesday, throwing ties into doubt as both countries...

A gunman opened a fire in a pastry-making factory in Moscow on Wednesday, killing one person and taking an unknown number as hostages, Russian state news agency RIA said, citing a law enforcement source. The “Menshevik”...

An Australian mother of three escaped the death penalty on Wednesday after a Malaysian court found her not guilty of drug trafficking. Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto, 54, was found with more than 1 kg of methamphetamine...

Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand on Wednesday appealed to the pop star Lorde to meet him after she canceled a show in Tel Aviv after appeals from activists for her to shun Israel as a protest...