Russia said yesterday it wanted an explanation from Washington over the arrest of one of its nationals, as Moscow continued to hold a US citizen for alleged espionage. FBI agents arrested Dmitry Makarenko on December 29 on Saipan, a US island in the western Pacific and he had since been taken to Florida,…

Police in California yesterday said three people were killed and four were injured in a shooting at a bowling alley near Los Angeles. Sergeant Ronald Harris of the Torrance Police Department confirmed to AFP that officers responded at 11:54 pm on Friday to reports of gunfire at Gable House Bowl. He…

The UN envoy for Yemen arrived in the capital Sanaa yesterday for talks to shore up a ceasefire in the country’s lifeline port city of Hodeida, an AFP photographer said. Martin Griffiths is scheduled to hold talks in Sanaa with Huthi rebel leaders and will later travel to the Saudi capital Riyadh…

Six children were killed alongside their driver and 12 more were injured after their bus fell into a gorge in northern India yesterday, police said. The driver of the bus also died in the accident, while seven injured students were said to be in a critical condition after their vehicle crashed in the…

A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record $3.1 million for a giant tuna yesterday as Tokyo’s new fish market, which replaced the world-famous…

Five teenage girls died and one man was seriously injured on Friday when a fire broke out in a room where they were playing an escape game in the northern…