There's no smoke without ire: a ban on water pipes in restaurants and cafes has caused uproar in Jordan where $1 billion worth of tobacco goes up in smoke every year.
Families of asylum-seekers killed in a shipwreck off Australia's Christmas Island in 2010 are suing the government, arguing it breached its duty of care in a move Canberra Tuesday blasted as "shameful".
TEHRAN, YJC. After the Marivanese teacher shaved his head bald as a show of empathy with his student who lost his hair due to illness, the whole class acted in kind. Marivan is a city in Iran's Kurdistan province.
TEHRAN, YJC. A Turkmen, Yaghoub learned riding early from his father and uncle. Now, although very young, he is a horse racing champion in his area. Inhabiting parts of north-west Iran and nearby lands over the border, the Turkmen are well-known for horse rearing and riding skills.
TEHRAN, YJC. Fifth 'carpet on soil' was opened to public visit after paintings in southern province of Hormuzgan, Iran. The carpet area is 1600 cubic meters. 'soil carpet' is sketch of Persian Carpet painted on bare soil.
North Korea's state media confirmed Monday what was never in doubt -- a 100 percent, no-abstention poll victory for leader Kim Jong-Un in the country's stage-managed parliamentary election.
A visitor writes on a banner carrying messages for the passengers of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang on March 13, 2014. Planes searching an area where Chinese satellites spotted possible debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have found no sign of wreckage, officials said on March 13, dimming hopes of a breakthrough in the mystery.
President Barack Obama landed in the Philippines Monday to cement new defence ties on the last leg of an Asian tour conducted against a backdrop of territorial tensions between US allies and China.
In the Bost Hospital here, a teenage mother named Bibi Sherina sits on a bed in the severe acute malnutrition ward with her two children. Ahmed, at just 3 months old, looks bigger than his emaciated brother Mohammad, who is a year and a half and weighs 10 pounds.
YANGON, Jan 20, 2015 (AFP) - A senior US diplomat Tuesday criticised Myanmar's policies which impose severe restrictions on the Muslim Rohingya community in Rakhine, saying they "oppress" people in the strife-torn state.