Year: 2015

NAIROBI: Co-operative bank is set to get a Sh10.7 billion loan from the World Bank's private lending arm, joining a ...

DUBLIN: Gardai have seized heroin and cocaine with a street value of €3m, along with a number of firearms. The ...

EUROPE: Atlantic puffins, Slavonian grebes, pochards and European turtle doves join the “Red List” of the worldwide Union for Conservation ...

MOSCOW: A group of Russian women embarked on an all-female mock moon mission on Wednesday, and officials say the experiment ...

CANADA: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will set a new record for the longest single stretch of time spent in space ...

NEW YORK: U.S. Customs agents discovered a pest considered a threat to crops, inside a shipment at Port Everglades. The ...

BAKU: In an interview, A-Haber Turkish Energy & Natural Resources Minister Ali Riza Alaboyun put a period to a racket ...

PERTH: The sharemarket has pared back some losses after the open, as regional investors await the outcome of Japan’s monthly ...

GRAND JUNCTION: Two people were arrested when authorities found 40 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a secret compartment in an ...

DHAKA: Bangladesh's foreign exchange reserves exceeded $27 billion for the first time, their highest on record, the central bank said, ...

NAIROBI: Kenya has signed a $750 million syndicated loan with banks, a senior Finance Ministry official said on Thursday. "The ...

AMSTERDAM: With New Year’s eve approaching, the police are once again discovering large amounts of smuggled fireworks all across the ...

NAIROBI: Kenyans accessing financial services increased by 14 per cent between 2013 and 2015, helped by a high penetration of ...

LONDON: The tractor beam, a staple of science fiction including "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" that is employed to grab ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index opened 22.49 points or 0.75 per cent lower at 2,979.02 on Friday, following an ...

TEHRAN: An agreement signed between Iran and Russia on Thursday for the promotion of trade ties between the two countries. ...

CANADA: Using European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, researchers spotted juvenile stars hidden in the forest of thick dust clouds in ...

MEGHALAYA: Troops of the Border Security Force (BSF) have apprehended three Indian cattle smugglers and seized two cows near the ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan stocks fell slightly on Friday after third-quarter GDP came in worse than analysts expected, with tech exporters also ...

THIMPU: A support staff of the Drug Regulatory Authority (DRA) is among the three men police arrested between October 23 ...