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Mumbai women fighting for Right to Pee want men to join campaign

Activists and charities campaigning for better access to public toilets for women in Mumbai are asking men to join the movement, saying greater gender sensitivity can solve the problem...

Ikea’s billionaire founder a frugal fan of flea markets

Frugal billionaire Ingvar Kamprad, founder of the flatpack furniture chain Ikea, buys his clothes at flea markets to save money, he said in a documentary to be broadcast Wednesday on Swedish...

3 Ukrainians die in cargo plane crash in Bangladesh

A cargo plane crashed off the coast of Bangladesh Wednesday killing three Ukrainian crew members and critically injuring one more, officials said. The plane went down in the Bay of Bengal...

Downpour shuts UAE schools, disrupts flights

Schools in the United Arab Emirates were ordered to shut on Wednesday after rare heavy rain hit the desert Gulf state, causing flights to be suspended and flooding roads. Education authorities...

Doctors stage third strike in British hospitals

Junior doctors at British hospitals staged a third strike on Wednesday in protest at proposed new conditions and pay rates for working unsociable hours. Around 5,000 treatments have been...

China aims to increase giving with first charity law

China is set to pass its first charity law as it seeks to increase public confidence in charitable organisations battered by years of scandal, while at the same time tightening its control of the...

Philippine president denies militants in south linked to Isis

President Benigno Aquino denied on Wednesday that Islamic State-linked militants are operating in the southern Philippines, describing armed groups in the area as mercenaries looking to raise...

Thai junta announces fresh ‘influential people’ purge

Thailand's military junta ordered a fresh sweep of 6,000 corrupt "influential people" on Wednesday, the latest move by a regime that has touted a tough anti-graft stance, but with limited...

Myanmar’s transition sours ahead of presidential vote

A deepening rift has opened between Myanmar's powerful military and Aung San Suu Kyi, sources say, threatening the democracy leader's prospects for forming a successful government even as...

Palace dismisses report that Queen Elizabeth backs EU exit

Buckingham Palace on Wednesday dismissed as "spurious" a newspaper report that Queen Elizabeth backs a British exit from the European Union, saying the monarch remains politically...

France braces for protests as labour reform anger grows

France is facing a wave of protests on Wednesday against deeply unpopular labour reforms that have divided an already fractured Socialist government and raised hackles in a country accustomed to...

China says taking ‘distinctly Chinese approach’ to national security

China is taking a "distinctly Chinese approach" to national security with a raft of new laws, including one on counterterrorism, the third-ranked leader said on Wednesday, offering a strong...

Taiwan sees more militarisation in South China Sea

In rare public comment on territorial disputes in the South China Sea, Taiwan's defence ministry warned today that countries in the region were spending more on bolstering their military strength...

North Korea says has miniaturised nuclear warheads

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un says his scientists have successfully miniaturised thermo-nuclear warheads to place on a ballistic missile and create a "true" deterrent, state media said on...

Total solar eclipse sweeps across Indonesia

A total solar eclipse swept across the vast Indonesian archipelago on Wednesday, marked by ecstatic sky gazers cheering the spectacle, devout Muslims kneeling in prayer and tribespeople...

Slovenia, Croatia ban transit of migrants as crisis spirals

Slovenia and neighbouring Croatia will from Wednesday refuse the transit of most migrants through their territory in a bid to seal off the Balkan route used by hundreds of thousands of people...

Isis commander ‘likely killed’ in Syria air strike

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) group's battle-tested equivalent of a defence minister is believed to have been killed in a US air strike in northeastern Syria, a US official said on...

Mexican ex-leader says authorities fear ‘el chapo’ extradition

Former Mexican president Vicente Fox said on Tuesday that authorities have yet to extradite drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman because they fear that he could "spill the beans" about corrupt...

Trump, Hillary win Mississippi primaries

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton each won their party primaries in Mississippi, US networks said on Tuesday, cementing their frontrunner status in the White House nomination...

New rules on real-time tracking after MH370

Two years on from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the UN's aviation agency on Tuesday announced new requirements in a bid to avoid a repeat of a mystery that has perplexed...