AFP,  SANAA: An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on the old quarter of the Yemeni capital killed five people yesterday and destroyed three houses in the UNESCO-listed heritage site. Residents said the pre-dawn strike was the first direct hit on old Sanaa since the launch of the bombing campaign…

PTI, KATHMANDU: Two moderate earthquakes of 4.6 and 4.4 magnitudes struck Nepal yesterday, taking the total number of aftershocks in the country to 313 after two devastating tremors killed nearly 9,000 people recently. The first quake was recorded at 1.22 am (local time) with its epicentre in Dolakha…

BBC: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has refused to deny reports that an Australian navy ship paid the crew of a migrant boat to turn back to Indonesia. But Mr Abbott said Australia had developed "incredibly creative" approaches to stopping asylum boats from reaching Australia. Australia's…

AFP, LILLE, France: A French court yesterday acquitted former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of pimping charges, drawing a line under the latest in a series of legal woes over his sexual escapades. The 66-year-old economist merely nodded his head in acknowledgement of the verdict, the finale of a…

AP/UNB Bauchi: A fleeing survivor says Boko Haram extremists have burned down six northeast Nigerian villages and killed 37 people near the insurgents' Sambisa Forest stronghold. Anti-Boko Haram youth vigilante Ahmed Ajimi says many victims of Wednesday night's attacks were farmers who had recently…