Rescuers used bulldozers to dig through mountains of mud in the search for more than 40 people missing in the eastern Philippines after landslides triggered by a powerful storm which killed at least 31 at the weekend, authorities said yesterday.

Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD), the country’s second strongest party, has agreed to kick off exploratory talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives that could lead to a new coalition government early next year.

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Zainab Bukar, an internally displaced person (IDP) living in Bama camp, Nigeria, poses for a picture in her shelter.

His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and His Highness the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani sent yesterday cables of condolences to Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi on the death of the Minister of Health, Slim Chaker.

An aged couple from Malampatti village who lost a November 2016 paternity suit claiming that actor Dhanush was their son, have re-appealed to the police to investigate ID proofs submitted by the actor in the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court.

A Singaporean teenager who became notorious for profanity-laced attacks on the city's revered late leader Lee Kuan Yew was granted asylum by a US immigration court, his attorney announced Tuesday.

The 1997 car crash that killed Britain’s Princess Diana spawned a host of conspiracy theories, but evidence that it was an accident only grows stronger, bolstered by new revelations about the history of the vehicle.

Share buybacks are catching on in Hong Kong. Companies listed in the city have poured an estimated HK$25bn ($3.2bn) into repurchasing their own shares this year through July 25, the highest for the period since 2008.

The degree of gender equality in the country a woman lives in may affect her cognitive functioning in later age, new research has found.

Fresh violence erupted in Darjeeling yesterday after a separatist group accused police of killing a supporter, prompting forces to fire tear gas as the hill resort reels from weeks-long unrest.

A group of jihadists tried to escape across the Tigris River from west Mosul where they hold a dwindling pocket of territory, but were killed by Iraqi forces, a senior commander said on Saturday.