27 Dec 2011 - 3:35pm
LONDON: Britons defied transport strikes and a gloomy economic outlook on Monday to register record-breaking levels of trade on the first day of post-Christmas sales. Despite a strike by drivers on the London Underground train network, Brent Cross mall in the capital's northwest announced sales of £1,000 (about RM5,000) per second as cash-...
27 Dec 2011 - 2:49pm
KIJKDUIN: In its age-old war to keep back the sea, low-lying Netherlands has dumped sand onto a surface larger than 200 football fields just off the coast -- and will wait for nature to do the rest. The wind, waves and ocean currents are the next "engineers" in this innovative project that will see the transferred sand -- all 20 million cubic...
27 Dec 2011 - 10:49am
BEIT SHEMESH, December 26, 2011 (AFP) - Clashes erupted on Monday between police and several hundred ultra-Orthodox Jews from a town near Jerusalem who are campaigning for men and women to be segregated, an AFP journalist said.
Israeli police had stepped up their patrols in Beit Shemesh following unrest sparked by discrimination against...
26 Dec 2011 - 10:41pm
LONDON: Brazil has overtaken Britain as the world's sixth largest economy, a London-based research group said Monday.
In its latest World Economic League Table, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said Asian countries were moving up while European countries were slipping down.
CEBR chief executive Douglas McWilliams...
26 Dec 2011 - 3:55am
KARACHI: Cricket hero turned politician Imran Khan ramped up the anti-corruption message at a rally of over 100,000 people on Sunday, boosting his image as a rising political force.
All roads in this port city near the rally venue were jammed for more than ten hours, an AFP reporter said, and hundreds of thousands of people waved party...
25 Dec 2011 - 10:54pm
GAZA CITY: Hamas premier Ismail Haniya left the Gaza Strip for a regional tour on Sunday for the first time since Israel and Egypt imposed a siege in 2007, his office said.
Sources in his office told AFP that Haniya would visit Egypt and Sudan, after which he plans to go to Qatar, Turkey, Tunisia and Bahrain.
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24 Dec 2011 - 8:19pm
CAIRO: Egypt's Islamists won almost 90 per cent of seats in a parliamentary election runoff, bringing them closer to dominating the first elected body since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, state media reported. The leading Islamist Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 40 out of 60 seats in the runoff for the second round of the three-stage elections,...
23 Dec 2011 - 3:14pm
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday rejected a US probe into the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers, extending a crisis in its US alliance now overshadowed by a showdown between the government and military in Islamabad.
The November 26 US air strikes on the Pakistani border with Afghanistan plunged the precarious Pakistani-US alliance to its lowest...
23 Dec 2011 - 2:19pm
DHAKA: Bangladesh has launched a crackdown on groups smuggling economic migrants and ethnic Rohingya refugees out of the country to Malaysia, via a perilous and sometimes fatal sea crossing.
According to police, dozens of wooden boats overloaded with Rohingyas and Bangladeshi migrants have attempted the approximately 3,200-kilometre journey...
22 Dec 2011 - 6:29pm
MADRID: Spain on Thursday swears in a new conservative government, hailed as an economic rescue squad to roll out urgent reforms. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy named 13 loyal disciples to his cabinet, with a former executive of the ruined US bank Lehman Brothers, Luis de Guindos, in the key post of economy minister. ...
