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-- 2018-01-17 12:44:32
A new analysis denies the popular beliefs that large earthquakes tend to happen during certain phases of the moon or at certain times during the year. The study, published in Seismological Research L...
-- 2018-01-17 12:22:24
Three people have been killed and more than 50 injured Wednesday morning when a coach bus hit a freight truck on Guangzhou-Kunming Highway in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, authoritie...
-- 2018-01-17 12:14:00
A new minister has been appointed in the UK to help tackle the loneliness endured by an estimated nine million adults. Tracey Crouch, the minister for sport and civil society, will head a government-...
-- 2018-01-17 12:03:35
Southeast Asian stock markets were mostly muted on Wednesday in line with broader Asia as Wall Street took a breather after its record-setting run. Broader Asian stocks came off an all-time high as w...
-- 2018-01-17 12:00:00
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered a deposit of $2 billion to be paid into Yemen’s central bank on Wednesday to shore up the weak Yemeni currency, the Saudi government said. The move was...
Xinhua 2018-01-17 11:39:56
A new gene thought to be critical in the regulation of insulin, the key hormone in diabetes, has been found in a family with both high and low blood sugar conditions, researchers said Monday. The res...
-- 2018-01-17 11:34:18
Asian shares were mostly lower in early trading on Wednesday after a lackluster session on Wall Street, where the Dow industrial average ended almost flat. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index lost 0.4 per...
-- 2018-01-17 11:30:15
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer has been arrested on charges of unlawful retention of classified information, the US justice department says. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a naturalised US...
-- 2018-01-17 10:59:35
Nigerian military has released 244 "repentant" Boko Haram suspects who have undergone rehabilitation. The authorities say they have been de-radicalised and can re-enter society, but critics are scept...
BBC 2018-01-17 10:46:48
Uber is introducing a new policy on drivers' hours across the UK next week, which it says will help to increase safety for drivers and passengers. A licensed driver on its app must take an uninterrup...
-- 2018-01-17 10:37:21
The mother of the five-year-old H&M model caught up in a racism row has said her family has moved house in Sweden "for security reasons." Last week, photos of Liam Mango modelling a "coolest monk...
-- 2018-01-17 03:45:57
Mideast stocks moved sideways in early trade on Wednesday with shares in top Qatari banks mixed after they reported lower-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings. The Qatari stock index was almost flat...
-- 2018-01-17 03:37:09
European shares rebounded on Wednesday as earnings updates disappointed the investors, following the US stocks lower trade. Britain’s Informa dropped 5.4 per cent after it made a paper and ca...
-- 2018-01-17 02:50:00
Kim Kardashian and her rapper husband Kanye West announced their third child on Tuesday, a girl born to a surrogate. “Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful bab...
-- 2018-01-17 02:24:43
Growth in Singapore’s export sector slowed more than expected in December from a year earlier due to a fall in electronics trade and the first decline in shipments to China in more than a year....
-- 2018-01-17 02:06:39
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake shook the Beitou District of Taiwan's capital city of Taipei at 1:59 pm Wednesday Beijing Time, says Taiwan's meteorological authority. The epicentre was monitored at 25.15...
-- 2018-01-17 01:47:49
Russia’s new government should invest more in education and healthcare to help spur the country’s economic growth, the World Bank’s chief executive officer said on Tuesday. Presiden...
-- 2018-01-16 12:53:37
New Zealand shares inched higher on Tuesday, posting its biggest intraday percentage gain since Dec. 8 The benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index rose 0.7 per cent, or 56.35 points, to 8,267.53. Consumer s...
-- 2018-01-16 12:46:53
Australian shares slipped to their lowest in two weeks on Tuesday, with materials weighing on the index on weak iron ore and coking coal prices. The S&P/ASX 200 index fell 0.6 per cent, or 33.4 p...
-- 2018-01-16 12:00:00
American actress Jessica Chastain said she at times feels like quitting acting and exploring other arenas of filmmaking like direction and production. The 40-year-old actor said she is keen to bring...
-- 2018-01-16 12:00:00
Twenty people including civilians have been killed and 69 others injured in an attack at the Mitiga international airport in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, a medical source confirmed on Monday. Abdud...
-- 2018-01-16 12:00:00
Ten construction workers have died after a bridge they were building in central Colombia collapsed, Colombian officials say. Civil Defence authorities say the labourers were working on drainage along...
-- 2018-01-16 12:00:00
Hong Kong shares marched to new 10-year highs on Tuesday, underpinned by gains for resources and information technology firms, and also encouraged by an extended bull run on Wall Street. Chinese H-...
-- 2018-01-16 11:24:45
A blast has brought down a residential building in the Belgian city of Antwerp, injuring several people. The origin of the explosion on the central street of Paardenmarkt is not clear, says a BBC rep...
-- 2018-01-16 10:57:34
Libya’s coastal guard has rescued 360 illegal migrants off Libya's western coast, according to a Coast Guards official. "Patrol members on Monday received a distress call off the coast of Garra...
-- 2018-01-16 03:23:53
Pope Francis has arrived in Chile on a visit overshadowed by child sexual abuse accusations against almost 80 members of Chilean clergy. Some priests have been convicted by the Vatican's court, but p...
-- 2018-01-16 03:21:33
Nigerian inflation slowed for the 11th month in a row in December, to 15.37 per cent from 15.90 per cent a month before, the head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday. The NBS...
-- 2018-01-16 02:48:38
China is likely set its 2018 economic growth target at around 6.5 per cent as a government-led crackdown on debt risks and factory pollution drag on overall activity, a Reuters poll showed. The poll...
-- 2018-01-16 01:59:08
South Korean stocks weakened slightly on Tuesday. The Korean won barely moved from a 3-year high reached this week while bond yields rose. At 00:59 GMT, the KOSPI was down 2.05 points or 0.08 per cen...
-- 2018-01-16 01:45:01
Japanese share rose to its highest level since late 1991 on Tuesday, as a firmer dollar supported exporter stocks and expectations for strong corporate earnings bolstered investor sentiment. The Nikk...
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