Saudi health authorities announced Saturday two new deaths from the MERS coronavirus, raising to 111 the number of fatalities since the disease appeared in the kingdom in September 2012. A 25-year-old man has died in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah…
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Chinese authorities have slapped Internet giant Sina Corp. with a fine of more than $815,000 over “unhealthy and indecent content”, the company announced. The “administrative fine” of 5.1 million yuan ($815,038) was imposed by the Beijing Municipal…
Australian authorities said Friday they would widen the underwater hunt for missing flight MH370, as the deep-sea search for wreckage at the suspected crash site neared completion with no results. Mini-submarine Bluefin-21 has scanned 95 percent of…
Flight operations have again resumed at the Kaduna International Airport, Kaduna State even as aviation authorities have commenced investigations into…
Airport authorities in Japan launched a frantic scramble to change security pass codes, an official said Tuesday, the day before Barack Obama arrives, after an airline employee dropped a memo containing the details. The news came as security in the…
Wrapped in a purple shawl, Mirjan wanders downcast among the ruins of the Islamabad slum where she lived, newly demolished. The authorities in Pakistan’s leafy, affluent capital have declared war on the slums, largely populated by Christians and Afghan…
Parents of the school girls yet to be released or escape from Islamist sect Boko Haram that abducted 129 secondary…
Rescuers searched Mount Everest for bodies Saturday as authorities ruled out hope of finding any more survivors from an avalanche that killed at least 12 Nepalese guides in the deadliest accident ever on the world’s highest peak. Four sherpas were still…
The effort to find missing flight MH370 is at a “very critical juncture”, Malaysia’s transport minister said Saturday as authorities mull whether to reassess a challenging search of the Indian Ocean seabed that has so far found nothing. “The search…
Some of the abducted students of Girls Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State yesterday narrated how they escaped from…