THE TIMES OF EARTH

South Korea holds muted New Year events after plane crashpublished New Year celebrations in South Korea have been cancelled or scaled back ...

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Maytaal Angel and Ali Sawafta Reuters Once muscular and strong, Palestinian bodybuilder Moazaz Obaiyat’s nine-month spell in Israeli custody ...

Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency on Monday as the government braced for reprisal shootings after an attempt on a ...

 Finnish police said they had found tracks that drag on for dozens of kilometres along the bottom of the Baltic Sea where ...

By Alex Wroblewski in Atlanta with Susan Stumme in Washington AFP Jimmy Carter, the 100-year-old former US president and Nobel peace laureate ...

BY HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG AP The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when an airliner belly-landed ...

The jailed leader of Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has been quoted as indicating he may be prepared to ...

Israeli soldiers stormed and burned a hospital in isolated northern Gaza after forcibly removing staff and patients on Friday, Health Ministry officials said. The ...

More than 2,000 Mozambican families have sought refuge in Malawi this week, Malawian authorities said, as dozens of people were reported killed ...

Israeli air strikes pummelled Sanaa’s international airport and other targets in Yemen on Thursday, with Huthi rebel media reporting six deaths. World ...