Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
Hong Kong fireworks dazzle as Asia leads global New Year party
HONG KONG (AFP) – A huge display of fireworks lit up Hong Kong on Thursday, with brilliant bursts of colour over Victoria Harbour as the Chinese city rang in 2015 in spectacular style, launching the party for millions across Asia.From New Delhi to Dubai, Johannesburg, New York and Rio, millions around the world will celebrate when the clock...
China rail firms’ stocks surge after merger confirmed
MARINIVKA, Ukraine, (AFP) – Larissa Pogorelka began the year looking forward to seeing her son graduate college and planning for the future with cautious optimism.Now she will end 2014 homeless, after her house was destroyed in the fighting that swept through this region of east Ukraine, and counts herself lucky just to be alive.Nobody ever...
Bad weather halts recovery of bodies from AirAsia flight
PANGKALAN BUN (AFP) – Stormy weather forced Indonesian rescuers Wednesday to suspend their search for the bodies of 162 people aboard an ill-fated AirAsia plane, as investigators started trying to piece together why the flight plunged into the sea.After two days of scouring the Java Sea for signs of the missing aircraft, search teams on...
Ukraine eyes Westinghouse nuclear fuel deal
KIEV (AFP) – Ukraine said on Tuesday it would sign an additional nuclear fuel supply deal with US giant Westinghouse in order to ease its energy dependence on Russia.Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said a contract between the Westinghouse Electric Company and Ukraines Energoatom state nuclear power provider would be sealed later on Tuesday...
Bodies, debris found as AirAsia plane believed found in sea
PANGKALAN BUN (AFP) – The hunt for a missing AirAsia passenger plane appeared at an end Tuesday as wreckage and bodies were spotted at sea off Indonesia, prompting raw scenes of emotion from sobbing relatives of the 162 people aboard.The Airbus A320-200 disappeared en route from Indonesias second largest city Surabaya to Singapore during a...
Ukraine economy shrank 7.5% in ‘worst year since WWII’
KIEV (AFP) – Ukraines central bank chief said on Tuesday that the strife-torn countrys economy contracted by 7.5 percent in 2014 while inflation soared in a year more painful than any since World War II.But Valeria Gontareva said the pro-Western leaders who rose to power in Kiev after the February ouster of an unpopular Moscow-backed...
Bodies found near site where AirAsia plane disappeared
SURABAYA (AP) – Indonesian officials coming off a helicopter in Pangkalan Bun say they spotted several bodies floating in waters near where the missing AirAsia flight was last seen.The bodies were brought to an Indonesian navy ship.Several pieces of debris seen floating in the sea off Borneo island might be linked to the missing AirAsia...
Search area expanded in hunt for AirAsia plane
SURABAYA (AP) — With no sign of the missing AirAsia jetliner, dozens of ships and planes on Tuesday joined a widening international effort now covering huge swaths of Indonesian sea and land. A device that can detect underwater signals from the aircrafts black boxes was also on its way, more than two days after Flight 8501 vanished from radar.The...
Indonesia fears missing plan ‘at bottom of sea’
JAKARTA (AFP) – Dozens of planes and ships searching Indonesian waters for a missing AirAsia plane focused Monday on a patch of oil for possible clues, as a senior official warned the aircraft was likely at the bottom of the sea.Australia, Malaysia and Singapore joined the Indonesia-led search as anguished relatives awaited news of their...
Guardian picks Bulent Kilic as photogr5apher of the year
LONDON (AFP) – The Guardian newspaper on Monday selected AFPs Bulent Kilic as its best agency photographer of the year, picking out a selection of his pictures from the Syrian border, Ukraine and his native Turkey.The British dailys website announced the award and published 15 pictures by Kilic — from protesters on fire on the...
