Home News Feeds News Feeds Channel NewsAsia World News Latest Channel NewsAsia World News Yemen needs urgent help, aid groups tell meet RIYADH: Seven aid groups on Wednesday warned Western diplomats that Yemen was on the brink of a "catastrophic food crisis" and urged them to bolster efforts to salvage the situation as they meet in Riyadh for an international conference to help the nation. Anti-whaling leader says extraditing him won't halt campaign FRANKFURT: Marine wildlife activist Paul Watson, currently on bail in Germany pending a decision on whether to extradite him to Costa Rica, vowed Tuesday that his campaign will go on even if he is tried and jailed. Egyptians vote in historic presidential election CAIRO: Egyptians take to the polls on Wednesday in a historic presidential election contested by Islamists and secularists promising radically different futures for the country. Iran, world powers seek breakthrough in Baghdad BAGHDAD: Iran and six world powers meet for talks in Baghdad on Wednesday hoping to silence what US President Barack Obama called the "drums of war" and pave the way to a deal that will end decades of enmity. 'Device' claim triggers France-US flight diversion WASHINGTON: A French woman forced a transatlantic flight from Paris to North Carolina, USA to be diverted to Maine on Tuesday after claiming she had a "surgically implanted device". Romney sweeps primaries in Arkansas, Kentucky WASHINGTON: Republican Mitt Romney won primary votes Tuesday in the southern states of Alabama and Kentucky, bringing him within arm's reach of scoring the delegates needed for his party's formal White House nomination. Schizophrenic man believed he was beheading an alien OTTAWA: A Chinese immigrant who beheaded and cannibalized a Canadian bus passenger in front of horrified travelers four years ago spoke out for the first time Tuesday, saying he believed his victim was an alien. Man survives plunge into Niagara Falls MONTREAL: A man who leaped into Niagara Falls survived but has been hospitalised in critical condition, authorities said on Tuesday. Bomb found before Colombian ex-president's speech BUENOS AIRES: Authorities found and deactivated a bomb on Tuesday at a theatre in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires where former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe was to deliver a speech, officials said. Teachers, students strike in Spain against education cuts MADRID: Tens of thousand of striking teachers and students and their supporters demonstrated across Spain on Tuesday to protest deep government cuts to education spending. Italy declares state of emergency in quake zone ROME: The Italian government declared a state of emergency in the quake-struck region of northeast Italy on Tuesday, where 5,000 people were camped out in temporary shelters amid fears of aftershocks.