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26 injured after man sets fire to Australian bank INTERNATIONAL

26 injured after man sets fire to Australian bank

Twenty-six people were hurt on Friday, some critically, after a man set fire to a busy bank in Australia with one witness saying he heard a "big blast" and children screaming.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
GCC energy firms play lead role in promoting sustainability: Al-Attiyah ECONOMY

GCC energy firms play lead role in promoting sustainability: Al-Attiyah

Energy companies in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region in general and Qatar in particular actively participate in national environmental risk mitigation efforts, said HE Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, former Deputy Prime Minister.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Trump denies accusations he groped women INTERNATIONAL

Trump denies accusations he groped women

A flood of newly published accusations that Donald Trump groped or inappropriately kissed women rocked the race for the White House on Wednesday, with the Republican nominee angrily denying the reports.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Flemish art masterpiece part-restored to former glory INTERNATIONAL

Flemish art masterpiece part-restored to former glory

Scientists and art historians in Belgium yesterday finished the first restoration stage of one of the most important pieces of early Renaissance art: the Van Eyck brothers’ altarpiece in Ghent.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
World's largest gorillas 'one step from going extinct' INTERNATIONAL

World's largest gorillas 'one step from going extinct'

The world's largest gorillas have been pushed to the brink of extinction by a surge of illegal hunting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and are now critically endangered, officials said Sunday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
How the Mideast’s second-richest nation is reacting to the oil shock ECONOMY

How the Mideast’s second-richest nation is reacting to the oil shock

The man in charge of helping Kuwait navigate the global oil-price shock said the Middle East’s second-richest nation is responding to the crisis by “spending as much as possible” to bolster economic growth.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Sri Lanka in search of more Headingley heroics CULTURE

Sri Lanka in search of more Headingley heroics

Kaushal Silva has urged Sri Lanka to fill the void left by Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara when they return to the scene of one their greatest triumphs for the first Test against England at Headingley today.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Duterte claims Philippine presidency, vows crime crackdown INTERNATIONAL

Duterte claims Philippine presidency, vows crime crackdown

Incendiary Philippine politician Rodrigo Duterte vowed Tuesday a relentless crackdown on crime after securing a landslide presidential victory built on foul-mouthed populist tirades ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Stock trade levy revived INTERNATIONAL

Stock trade levy revived

Sri Lanka’s bourse will re-impose a 0.3% share transaction levy it stopped in January, an exchange official said yesterday...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Mobile messages tell tales of refugees fleeing war ASIA

Mobile messages tell tales of refugees fleeing war

Daddy, where are you now? In Turkey or Sweden?”

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Lanka could accept foreign actors in war crimes probe INTERNATIONAL

Lanka could accept foreign actors in war crimes probe

Sri Lanka’s foreign minister yesterday said he is willing to consider international participation in investigating possible war crimes during the 26-year Tamil insurgency.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
India to rename railway 'coolies' in modernisation drive INTERNATIONAL

India to rename railway 'coolies' in modernisation drive

India Thursday said it will roll out wifi to hundreds of stations, install 17,000 hi-tech toilets on trains and professionalise its unskilled porters, or ‘coolies’ under a drive to modernise its creaking railways.

4:45 AM November 25 2016