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A man uses his phone to take a picture of ATM screen of Fransa Bank that was painted and damaged by anti-government protesters in Beirut, Lebanon. AP photo

Lebanese focus fury on banks amid severe financial crisis

Simple activities, such as going to a cafe or a restaurant, are now considered luxuries, even for those with money or...

22 Jan 2020 4:17 PM IST

A woman takes pictures in front of a poster of a protester as she joins others to take part in a Lunar New Year fair organised by pro-democracy district councillors in the Sai Ying Pun district in Hong Kong. AFP photo

Hong Kongers choose protest theme for Lunar New Year

Measures prompted activists to find new venues in the city to set up protest-themed stalls, with vendors donating...

22 Jan 2020 4:11 PM IST

Hospital staff load bodies of Indian tourists into an ambulance for postmortem, at a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (Photo | AP)

Bodies of eight Indian tourists in Nepal to be flown back Thursday

The tourists from Kerala, a part of a group of 15, died allegedly after a gas leak from a heater in their room at a...

22 Jan 2020 1:00 PM IST

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab speaks during a news conference after his government was announced, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (Photo | AP)

New government in crisis-hit Lebanon, but protests continue

Hassan Diab, 60, former professor at American University of Beirut, announced a Cabinet of 20 members, backed by...

22 Jan 2020 10:24 AM IST

People wearing protective masks arrive at a Beijing railway station to head home for the Lunar New Year on January 21, 2020. (AFP)

China says number of confirmed virus cases jumps to nearly 300

Anxieties mount as researchers say virus can be transmitted person to person

21 Jan 2020 3:24 PM IST

(Photo | Flickr - Russell Watkins/Department for International Development)

Five former cops sentenced to death over attack on Sheikh Hasina-'s...

On January 24, 1988, police opened fire when the then Awami League President was going to a rally against the military...

20 Jan 2020 7:16 PM IST

In this photograph taken on January 17, 2020, Bangladeshi man Habibur Rahman looks on as he lies in a bed at a hospital in Sylhet. The septuagenarian has reunited with his family 48 years after his disappearance after a video posted on Facebook seeking help for his treatment was noticed by a relative living in the United States. Habibur Rahman, a former businessman from Sylhet, disappeared in 1972 as he went out on some work to Chittagong.

Viral video reunites Bangladeshi man with family after 48 years

An appeal for help for medical treatment reaches grandchildren living in the United States

20 Jan 2020 6:24 PM IST

Elvy Coravan poses for a portrait as she works to clear volcanic ash from the eruption of the Taal volcano, from the roof of her house in Buso Buso on January 19, 2020. - Residents of Buso Buso are allowed past police and military checkpoints for certain hours each morning to check on their homes and make repairs, before returning to evacuation centres in the surrounding areas. The small fishing village is one of the closest and hardest hit villages in the vicinity of the volcano. (Photo | AFP)

â€˜Living near Taal like having gun pointed at youâ€™: Philippines to...

As tens of thousands of evacuees from villages near the volcano remain in emergency shelters, officials discuss...

20 Jan 2020 8:10 AM IST

Medical staff members carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital, where patients infected by a mysterious SARS-like virus are being treated, in Wuhan in Chinas central Hubei province on January 18, 2020. (Photo | AFP)

Indian school teacher first foreigner to contract SARS-like...

Preeti Maheshwari, who works at an international school in Shenzhen, has been admitted in hospital after she fell...

19 Jan 2020 5:13 PM IST

Refugees and migrants burn garbage bins and chant slogans as they demonstate outside Moria camp, following the stabbing death of an 20-year-old man from Yemen in the Greek island of Lesbos, Friday, Jan, 17, 2020. (Photo | AFP)

More than 80 soldiers killed in Yemen missile, drone attack

This follows months of relative calm in the war between Iran-backed Huthis and Yemenâ€™s government, backed by a...

19 Jan 2020 4:06 PM IST

A woman arriving at Los Angeles International Airport wears a mask on the first day of health screenings of travellers from Wuhan, China for coronavirus on January 18, 2020. Coronavirus is a new type of virus similar in the same classification as SARS and MERS that has health officials concerned. (Photo | AFP)

China reports 17 new cases in viral pneumonia outbreak

Nineteen of a total 62 diagnosed have been discharged, while two elderly men have died from the illness. Eight are in...

19 Jan 2020 1:24 PM IST

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, right, greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at president house in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on Saturday. AP photo

Facebook sorry for Jinping name gaffe

The error came to light on the second day of a visit by the president to the Southeast Asian country

19 Jan 2020 11:37 AM IST