TAIPEI: Adults in Taiwan who fail to look after their elderly parents could face jail under a new law being considered , following rising cases of abandonment, a legislator said on Friday....

Australia has beaten Sri Lanka to the hosting rights for the 2018 Commonwealth Games with the Gold Coast in Queensland chosen over Hambantota.

VAN, TURKEY: Rescuers on Saturday recovered the body of a second journalist missing underneath the rubble of an earthquake-shattered hotel as the death toll in the second earthquake to hit eastern Turkey in about two weeks rose to at least 26.

DAMASCUS: Syrian troops have killed 16 civilians, five of whom were attending a funeral in Damascus and were caught up in the regime's continuing...

NEW DELHI: India and China are facing off again, this time over an election to a UN body...

LONDON: India is trying to create an anti-Pakistan Afghanistan which has been a "playing ground" for it and the Soviet Union, according to former Pakistan

VIENNA: Iran appears to have worked on designing an atomic bomb and may still be conducting secret research, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report likely to raise tensions in the Middle East....

SPARI: French President Nicolas Sarkozy branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "a liar" in a private conversation with US President Barack Obama that was accidentally broadcast to journalists during last week's G20 summit in Cannes...

Eager to become the leader of al-Qaida , the then number two Aymen Zawahiri set up Osama bin Laden by repeatedly sending a human courier to his hiding place in Abbottabad who had been interrogated by the CIA, a new book by a former Seal Chuck Pfarrer has said...

UNITED NATIONS: A draft report by a UN Security Council committee, on Tuesday, declared that members could not reach consensus on whether Palestine should be accepted as a UN member state...