ROME, June 27 - The Vespa, the wasp-waisted scooter that put postwar Italians on wheels and went on to carry Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn through the streets of Rome, is returning to the capital this week to celebrate its 80th birthday.
BEIJING, June 27 - An aircraft about the size of a car flew into the tallest building in Beijing on Friday, said witnesses who saw the rare crash in China's capital, where airspace is heavily controlled.
The CITIC Tower, which has 108 floors above ground and seven below, is able to accommodate 12,000 office workers.
The CJP is keeping up the pressure with a sit-in protest in New Delhi demanding that the education minister resigns.
"The only person on board was the pilot, who died, and 13 people were injured at the scene," said Beijing authorities.
BEIJING, June 27 - A light aircraft crash into Beijing's tallest building on Friday killed the pilot and injured 13 people who were not on board, the local government said following the unusual accident for the Chinese capital, where airspace is heavily restricted.
Three people were rescued from the car, including an 86-year-old man who was later pronounced dead.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has come under growing pressure to rein in energy prices amid high inflation.
Bangladesh is also seeking additional external financing from development partners, including the IMF.
Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said his ministry also plans to provide “dedicated lanes” at immigration checkpoints for Johoreans residing in Singapore and returning to vote at the Johor polls.
Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said his ministry also plans to provide “dedicated lanes” at immigration checkpoints for Johoreans residing in Singapore and returning to vote at the Johor polls.
Media reports said the 46-year-old suspect was apprehended at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport, where he was trying to purchase an airline ticket to Perth.
Investigators are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination before filing charges.
This will take effect on Aug 1.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s first four-day official visit to China yielded a predictable flurry of agreements spanning trade and green technology. But its true significance lies in the elevation of a single, long-stalled infrastructure initiative: the Teesta
Analysts say that Perikatan Nasional’s decision to contest only 33 out of the 56 seats could benefit incumbent ruling coalition Barisan Nasional, paving the way for future cooperation in subsequent polls.
The risk to human health remains low.
South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population, yet it is one of the least connected regions in terms of people actually moving across borders. Centuries of shared history, culture and language haven’t translated into easy travel between neighbors. Instead,
From Larkin to Endau, Johor's wards are set to test every fault line in Malaysian politics, come July 11.
The suspect is accused of stabbing a man in his 40s with a sickle at the Ilmin Museum of Art.
The campaign period has officially started and would end at 11.59pm on July 10.
In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air, held in place by electric fields and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero. Each atom is far smaller than anything the naked eye could ever see, yet each carries information in a form that has
“Making peace with Iran may be just as painful as winning the war,” a recent CNN report noted. As negotiations roll on during a shaky ceasefire, what a deal between the US and Iran might look like and whether it holds is anyone’s guess. As a scholar of ancient Persia (which
BEIJING, June 27 - China on Friday stripped six military lawmakers, former financial regulator head Li Yunze and recently probed Politburo member Ma Xingrui of their posts in the National People's Congress, the country's top legislative body, the state-run Xinhua news agency
The US Navy’s greatest vulnerability in a war with China may not be losing ships — but getting them back into the fight. RAND released a recent report warning that the US Navy faces severe risks to its maritime dominance because repairing battle-damaged Arleigh Burke-class
Power shortages once darkened Sinuiju at night, but satellite images show a renewable energy boom is underway.
It comes after a low-pressure system swept across the country, triggering flooding and landslides.
The quake registered lower 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in part of Yamanashi Prefecture.
Through radically different sounds, two musicians are reshaping how Bhojpuri is heard and understood in their country.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent raising a child in Asia’s more developed economies.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent raising a child in Asia’s more developed economies.
For many young adults in Taiwan, raising even one child has become a difficult financial and emotional calculation.
According to a survey, the average cost of raising a child to age 18 in South Korea is 1.115 million won a month.
The city's sky-high property prices have long discouraged couples from having more children.
Nearly half of Johor's 140 candidates are aged 20s-40s, mirroring a 42% youth electorate.
There are many who think Trump’s about face on Iran, virtually embracing the radical Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (now the IRGC is linked up to CENTCOM in Doha, Qatar) is a sellout of US and allied forces, not to mention the now-frequent denunciations of Benjamin Netanyahu
Adani is accused of bribery and misleading US investors.
NEW YORK, June 26 - A U.S. judge ordered the Justice Department on Friday to justify its decision to drop criminal charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, declining to rule immediately on Adani's lawyers' request earlier in the week to formally dismiss the case.