World

MIAMI: An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early yesterday, NBC News reported.

PARIS: France will invest about 20 million euros ($ 25 million) to increase security for diplomats and embassies in the Middle East and Africa after its mission in Libya

DODOMA: Residents of a gas-rich region of Tanzania rioted yesterday to protest that they would not benefit from a government budget proposal to construct a pipeline from

CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s political opposition yesterday rubbished a government probe that cleared President Jacob Zuma over the use of a military base for a plush

LONDON: Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces in Afghanistan will be offered the chance of a new life in Britain after a government U-turn, it was

DHAKA: The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said yesterday the building’s owner was the “main culprit&rdq

MANILA: Communist rebels extorted 26 million pesos ($ 634,000) from campaigning politicians in the just-concluded Philippines mid-term elections, the military said yeste

LOS ANGELES: Solar Impulse, the first aircraft that can fly day and night fueled entirely by energy from the sun, embarked yesterday on the second leg of its historic jo

MOORE, Oklahoma: Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingl