AFP, DUBAI:  Bahraini authorities have arrested four Americans during protests marking the fifth anniversary of a Shiite-led uprising in the kingdom, police said Monday. The four are reporters and include an independent journalist named Anna Therese Day. The other three are members of her camera…

AFP,MOSCOW:  At least four people have been killed and several injured by a gas explosion that ripped through a residential building in the Russian city of Yaroslavl early yesterday, authorities said. “Unfortunately, four bodies have been recovered. The four victims were evidently the occupants…

AFP, BANGKOK: Two Chinese Uighurs yesterday denied involvement in a deadly shrine bombing in the Thai capital, and a lawyer said one had been beaten up and threatened with deportation to force an earlier confession. Investigators had also compelled Bilal Mohammed to dress up and wear a wig so he resembled…