Togo's main opposition on Monday rejected provisional electoral results showing the ruling party winning two-thirds of parliamentary seats, allowing the president's family to maintain its decades-long grip on power. The main opposition coalition, Let's Save

The Saudi Arabian government awarded $22.5bn in contracts to three foreign-led consortia yesterday for the design and construction of a metro rail system in the capital Riyadh. The project, which will involve six rail lines

A court on Monday cleared seven Israeli Arabs of murder in the 2005 mob killing of a soldier, a lawyer for one of the accused said. "We heard today that the court accepted the defense

A UAE court on Monday sentenced to death a 57-year-old Indian man convicted of raping a seven-year-old girl at an Abu Dhabi school, the victim's family lawyer told Agence France Presse. A lower court in

Melanie Costa made a little bit of history with her silver medal in the women's 400-meter freestyle on Sunday — and the Spaniard didn't even know it. By finishing second behind runaway winner Katie Ledecky

FROM LEFT: England’s Monty Panesar, James Taylor and Chris Tremlett. The trio have been recalled to the Ashes squad for the third Test match against Australia at Old Trafford that begins on August 1. LONDON:

Cooking came naturally to them from a very young age. They watched their mothers cook at home, and were interested in food early on. Combining different flavours and products was their past time and,

Britain’s Lewis Hamilton seized his first win for Mercedes in the Hungarian heat yesterday while Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel forged 38 points clear in the Formula One championship after finishing third. “This is probably

The Qatari who was detained in the UAE late last February is suspected by the UAE authorities of having links with a social organisation (Dawat Al Islah) there, which is alleged to have connections

Nine people were buried and four missing after landslides hit a Chinese province where at least 95 were killed this week by earthquakes, state media reported on Friday. Two separate landslides hit Gansu following heavy