
ECONOMY
Work until you drop: UK pension review
A government review of the UK pension system hints at age hikes for future British pensioners.

A government review of the UK pension system hints at age hikes for future British pensioners.

Blasts and gunfire rock the area outside the Indian consulate in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing six people.

Anti-regime protesters stage fresh demonstrations against the ruling Al Khalifah monarchy in Bahrain.

Bernie Sanders remains very well poised to turn the tables on Hillary Clinton and go on to defeat Donald Trump, a political analyst says.

A study says one third of working women in Japan have experienced sexual harassment.

An Emirates Airbus A380 makes the world’s longest-distance non-stop flight with a trip from Dubai to Auckland.

Australia removes its nuclear-related sanctions against Iran.

More than one in three people the police in Los Angeles shot last year were mentally ill, an internal study has found.

Joint Iraqi forces clear four villages in the country’s north-central Salahuddin Province of the Takfiri Daesh terrorists.

Russia says it is establishing “green corridors” on its Caspian coasts to receive agricultural products from Iran.

Some seven people are killed in clashes between Jordan forces and Daesh militants near Syria border.

Afghan security officials say an armed man clad in an Afghan police uniform has shot dead four officers at a remote highway checkpoint.

A top US military official says Russia is an “existential threat” to Washington and its European allies.

The number of microcephaly cases associated with the Zika virus in Brazil rises to 4,863.

The Yemeni army carries out a missile attack against a Saudi camp in Ma'rib.

Pope Francis’ chief financial adviser is accused of failing to act on horrific and incessant child abuse by two Australian priests.

The United Nations (UN) says a total of 670 people were killed in acts of terrorism and violence across Iraq in February.

Israeli forces shoot dead two Palestinians over an alleged stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank.