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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese citizens' panel ruled on Friday that three former Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) executives should be indicted for failing to take measures to prevent the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Kyodo news agency said.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Hundreds of Taiwan students stormed the ministry of education compound early on Friday, after one committed suicide earlier in the week, intensifying anti-China protests over textbooks they say are aimed at promoting Beijing's "one China" policy.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

HARARE (Reuters) - As social media exploded with outrage this week at the killing of Cecil the lion, the untimely passing of the celebrated predator at the hands of an American dentist went largely unnoticed in the animal's native Zimbabwe.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India hanged Yakub Memon on Thursday for his role in the country's deadliest bombings, which killed at least 257 people in Mumbai in 1993, after the Supreme Court rejected a desperate overnight plea to delay his execution.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Yakub Memon's chances of avoiding the hangman's noose for his role in the 1993 Mumbai bombings dwindled on Wednesday, after India's Supreme Court threw out his final plea for mercy hours before he was due to be executed.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian air force bombarded a plain in the northwest of the country overnight, a group monitoring the war said, after insurgents launched an offensive to advance deeper into government-held areas vital to President Bashar al-Assad.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

HWANGE, Zimbabwe, (Reuters) - Two Zimbabwean men who were paid $50,000 by an American hunter who killed 'Cecil', the country's best-known lion, arrived in court on Wednesday facing charges of poaching.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a security guard outside the embassy of Niger in Cairo early on Wednesday morning, the Egyptian interior ministry said in a statement.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Bahrain said on Saturday it had recalled its ambassador to Tehran for consultations after what it said were repeated hostile statements made by Iranian officials.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fresh analysis of a landmark study in Kenya has thrown doubt on the educational benefits due to "deworming", the removal of the parasitic worms which affect millions of children in developing countries, researchers said on Thursday.<br clear='all'/><img...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British spy chief warned Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s that allegations of a lawmaker "having a penchant for small boys" risked causing political embarrassment, according to a review of government documents.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmer Kenny Mabvumbe looked upset as he returned virtually empty-handed from the tobacco auction floors in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

MUTARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After her husband died in 2011, Theresa Matanda looked for a job in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, but with no success despite being a qualified accountant.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Cuban flag was raised over Havana’s embassy in Washington on Monday for the first time in 54 years as the United States and Cuba formally restored relations, opening a new chapter of engagement between the former Cold War foes.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

ADEN (Reuters) - A bombardment in Aden by the Houthi militia and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh killed 43 people and injured 173 on Sunday, the health ministry of Yemen's exiled government said two days after declaring the city had been liberated.<br...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel drew mockery online on Thursday for stroking the back of a Palestinian girl facing possible deportation after she had reduced her to tears by explaining her policy on asylum and adding that "sometimes politics is hard".<br clear='all'/><img...

ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Backers of a new initiative, dubbed "tax inspectors without borders", say it can help poor countries crackdown on tax dodging and fund their own development, but advocacy groups on Monday were skeptical that it would work.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic fell ill and was taken to hospital ahead of the opening of his trial on Saturday for alleged child sex offences, a Vatican official said.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic fell ill and was taken to hospital ahead of the opening of his trial on Saturday for alleged child sex offences, a Vatican official said.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic fell ill and was taken to hospital ahead of the opening of his trial on Saturday for alleged child sex offences, a Vatican official said.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...