French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said yesterday that there has been “no change” in the country’s 2013 growth forecast, after it appeared the figure had been revised downward. “There was no change in the growth

A 31-year-old Indian expatriate died, reportedly after being stabbed by an Asian man in a labour camp in Al Sailiya on the outskirts of Doha a little after midnight on Saturday. The deceased has been

A judge has remanded in custody a convicted child rapist who was arrested in Spain after a controversial pardon by Morocco's king was revoked in the face of angry protests. The judge ruled that Daniel

Tunisia's ruling Ennahda party leader Rachid Ghannouchi has raised the prospect of a referendum as a way out of the country's political crisis, but has also warned against the opposition’s efforts to topple the government. Ghannouchi

Russia's Supreme Court has reduced former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's jail sentence by two months, his legal team has said. The court on Tuesday cut the sentence of Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev

The military trial of US army officer Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 people at an army post in Texas state, is set to begin on Tuesday. Hasan does not deny that he carried out

Pakistani disaster relief officials issued fresh flood warnings yesterday after the death toll from heavy monsoon rains rose to 45 and waters paralysed parts of the largest city Karachi. Flash floods caused by monsoon

U.S. missions across the Middle East and Africa will be closed through August 10, officials said Sunday, amid intelligence reports an al-Qaida attack may be imminent. The State Department, noting it was acting "out of

Martin Weekes told media his wife Jane had given birth to a girl named Poppy and boy named Parker by caesarean section on Wednesday morning in Auckland. The parents of New Zealand triplets who died

A man suspected of organising a bus bombing in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Burgas last year flew to Lebanon two days before the attack that killed five Israelis and their driver, Polish