February 04, 2015 - Page 14

AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Tony Abbott is facing a growing backbench rebellion, with three MPs calling for a vote on his leadership. One Liberal MP, Dennis Jensen, has publicly called on the prime

BANGLADESH police Wednesday charged opposition leader Khaleda Zia with “instigating” a deadly bus firebombing as four more people were killed — allegedly by security forces — amid spiralling political unrest. Police laid

OPPOSITION leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Wednesday that any move to jail him next week on controversial sodomy charges could backfire against the Malaysian government. The nation’s highest court is to deliver

TOYOTA on Wednesday raised its earnings forecast for the year to March, saying it expects to book a record $18.1 billion annual net profit thanks to a weak yen and cost cuts.

ECHOING US online retailer Amazon, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on Wednesday tested a drone delivery service, promising to whisk ginger tea to customers within an hour despite close controls on airspace. Alibaba’s

A PASSENGER jet skidded off the runway as it landed at a holiday island in central Indonesia, a spokesman said Wednesday, just weeks after the deadly crash of an AirAsia jet in

NEW President Maithripala Sirisena vowed Wednesday to end Sri Lanka’s pariah status by working with the UN and promised national reconciliation, six years after the island’s ethnic war ended. In an address

UNIDENTIFIED gunmen shot dead five customs officials patrolling overnight in Pakistan’s restive northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities said on Wednesday. The gunmen attacked the duty officers at around midnight in Kohat city,

GREEK Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis heads to Frankfurt Wednesday for talks with European Central Bank officials as he seeks to build support for a renegotiation of Athens’s 240 billion euro ($270 billion)

PHILIPPINE police have arrested an Australian man over the “brutal” murder of a Filipina teenager he met on the Internet after her body was found in a motel room, officials said Wednesday.