Last Flickr Friday we told you to rub the sleep out of your eyes and greet a new day with your favorite camera for our latest theme Glorious Morning. And you got up with the sun to capture some wonderful shots of flora in the pristine dawn, breakfast table staples, and other…
LONDON: Football megastar David Beckham announced he is to retire after a glittering 20-year playing career in which he became one of the most widely recognised figures in world sport. The former England captain, 38, made the announcement shortly after winning the Ligue 1 title with…
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh: Bangladesh began cleaning up on Friday after a killer cyclone wrecked thousands of homes along its coast while breathing a sigh of relief that the damage was not much worse. Fourteen people are so far known to have died in Bangladesh after Cyclone…
WASHINGTON: Amid a flurry of moves to organize peace talks to end Syria’s bloody civil war, US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted Bashar al-Assad…
TOKYO: An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has begun his ascent of Mount Everest, his website said, in a bid to become the oldest man to reach the roof of the world.…
ROME: Defending champion Rafael Nadal endured a three-set thriller before overcoming big-hitting Latvian qualifier Ernests Gulbis 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 on Thursday to reach the Rome Masters quarter-finals.Gulbis, ranked 46th, and…
PARIS: Embattled President Francois Hollande vowed Thursday to “go on the offensive” by pushing for a new eurozone government and tackling France’s economic woes after the country fell into recession.During…
WASHINGTON: Water from the world’s shrinking glaciers was responsible for almost a third of the rise in sea levels between 2003 and 2009, new research showed Thursday.A study published in…
KABUL: A suicide car bomb targeted a foreign military convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing 15 people including five Americans in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly…
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh: A cyclone slammed into Bangladesh Thursday, forcing the evacuation of one million people and killing 14, but fears of devastating damage eased when the storm weakened over land.…
MOSCOW: The head of Societe Generale’s Russian unit was facing up to seven years in prison after investigators charged him Thursday with soliciting a $1.5-million bribe in what one banking…
Peshawar: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf has at last agreed Jamaat e Islami and Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) to form ‘model’ government in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa.
