AFP, NEW YORK: Vanity Fair has had the last laugh after President-elect Donald Trump blasted the magazine over a snooty review of one of his restaurants: its subscription numbers have broken a company record. “Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine?” the incoming…

AFP, BEIJING: China has objected to the Dalai Lama meeting with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee earlier this month, saying the talks had negatively impacted ties between the Asian neighbours. The Tibetan spiritual leader met with Mukherjee at the Indian presidential palace in New Delhi during a child…

AFP, TEHRAN: Iran summoned the top British diplomat in Tehran for the second time this month to complain about criticism of its actions in Syria, state television reported on Saturday. The move came after British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called in the Russian and Iranian ambassadors in London…

AFP, THE HAGUE: Anne Frank may have been discovered “by chance” and not because she was denounced to Holland’s Nazi overlords by unknown betrayers as long thought, the museum in her honour says. New research suggests that the August 1944 police raid in which Frank was arrested may…

AFP, QAYYARAH, Iraq: The battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group is leaving a legacy of environmental damage and health risks that will pose dangers to people for years to come. Iraqis have already paid the initial price from burning oil wells and a sulphur factory that IS set alight south…

AFP, KANDAHAR: Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women in the country. The women were in a van driving to the airport in the southern Kandahar province when at least three gunmen on motorcycles opened…

AFP, PARIS: A French anti-terrorist judge has charged three more men suspected of helping to arm the Islamist radical who crushed 86 people to death with a truck in Nice, a judicial source said Saturday. The three, who were among 11 arrested on Monday in Nice and the western city of Nantes, were remanded…

AFP, COLOMBO: Ten passengers were killed and another 21 wounded Saturday when a van and a bus collided on a highway in Sri Lanka’s former war zone of Jaffna, police said. All those killed in the head-on collision along the A-9 highway were passengers travelling in the smaller vehicle, police said…