LOS ANGELES: Mount Kilauea volcano has erupted near a residential area on Hawaii's largest island, prompting a local state of emergency and the mandatory…

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has joined an online campaign launched by Kiwis tired of finding their remote South Pacific homeland missing from global maps, reports AFP. In a video launched by Tourism New Zealand, comedian Rhys Darby highlights New Zealand’s absence from…

QUETTA: Unknown gunmen shot dead six labourers in a remote southwestern Pakistani town, officials said yesterday, in the latest bout of violence to rock the restive region, reports AFP. The murders took place overnight in Lajjey, about 170 kilometres (105 miles) southwest of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan…

LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative party fared better than expected in local elections in England, early results yesterday showed, in her first test since losing her parliamentary majority last year, reports AFP. The party held on to key London councils despite a big push…

MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy paid tribute yesterday to victims of the Basque separatist group ETA as it sealed its final dissolution, reports AFP. Rajoy spoke as ETA was ending its days-long dissolution process at a peace conference in the French Basque Country. “Now that ETA has…

LOPBURI: A Thai district chief has clipped the wings of his town’s pigeon population by paying residents to trap the birds and organising a cook-off…

KUALA LUMPUR: A flight linking Singapore and the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur has become the busiest international route in the world, research shows, reports BBC. Planes made 30,537 trips between the two airports in the year to February 2018, OAG Aviation said. The route overtook Hong Kong-Taipei…

RAMALLAH: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas apologised yesterday for alleged anti-Semitic comments that drew global condemnation, reports AFP. “If…