Monthly Archive:: June 2015

"I am always caring for my bonsai trees -- it's as necessary for me as eating every day," says award-winning bonsai sensei, Kunio Kobayashi. A cross between horticulture

LONDON: Jordanian King Abdullah II has received the 2018 Templeton Prize at a ceremony held at the Washington National Cathedral. The event earlier this month was attended by

Singapore - Founding father Lee Kuan Yew oversaw Singapore's growth from a small country with no natural resources to a thriving metropolis - in a style almost invariably

Paris (CNN)In a Parisian suburb, Myriam sits at her parents' dinner table, the Shabbat candles flickering before her. Together with her husband and newborn son she takes stock

Buenos Aires (CNN)President Donald Trump was only a half-hour into his nine-hour flight to the G20 summit here in the Argentine capital when he decided to pull the

JEDDAH, ANKARA: The UN Special Envoy for Syria signed off from his posting on Thursday ruing “a missed opportunity” to help end the country’s conflict at talks in

Shenzhen, China - China has suspended He Jiankui - the scientist who claims to have produced the world's first gene-edited babies, and he now looks set to face

Georgia's ruling party-backed candidate, who favours balancing the ex-Soviet republic's relations with Moscow and the West, has won the presidential runoff, according to partial results published on the electoral body's website on

Hong Kong (CNN)China has suspended the research activities of the scientists who claimed to have created the world's first gene-edited babies, state-run Xinhua news reported Thursday.The moves comes

ADEN, DUBAI: UN-sponsored peace talks between Yemen’s warring parties are expected to start next week in Sweden, Britain’s envoy to Yemen said on Thursday. The UN is trying to

ANKARA: Turkey on Thursday lambasted an “unacceptable” decision by a British court to reject a request from Ankara to extradite a prominent businessman accused of providing financial support

Breakthrough, escalation or time out? It is an open question that will mark the next phase of the US-China trade war as Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

(CNN)Japan is preparing an order for roughly 100 US-designed F-35 stealth fighter jets in a deal that could potentially upend the balance of power in Asia, according to

(CNN)The current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- with 426 total cases, including 245 deaths -- is now the second largest and second deadliest in