RIYADH (AFP) – Saudi Arabia will allow women to travel abroad without approval from a male “guardian”, the government said Thursday, ending a…
SINGAPORE (AFP) – The estranged brother of the Singaporean prime minister has backed a new opposition party, the latest incident in a bitter…
BANGKOK (AFP) – Southeast Asia’s drug gangs are making over US$60 billion a year pumping out record amounts of methamphetamine, then laundering the…
NEW YORK (AFP) – The chart-topping Russian-made FaceApp, which allows users to see how they will look as they age, found itself in…
WASHINGTON DC (AFP) – The US House of Representatives formally condemned Donald Trump on Tuesday for xenophobic attacks on four minority Democratic lawmakers…
SINGAPORE (AFP) – Growth in export-reliant Singapore suffered a surprise sharp contraction in the second quarter, official data showed Friday, sending a stark…
WASHINGTON DC (AFP) – US regulators have approved a US$5 billion penalty to be levied on Facebook to settle a probe into the social…
SYDNEY (AFP) – An Aboriginal settlement older than the pyramids that provides evidence that indigenous Australians developed sophisticated aquaculture thousands of years ago…
HONG KONG (AFP) – Fresh political violence broke out in Hong Kong on Sunday night as riot police baton-charged anti-government protesters seeking to…
KHARTOUM, SUDAN (AFP) – Seven people were killed Sunday as tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets to demand civilian rule…