The UN Security Council on Friday delayed a vote on a demand for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, where pro-government warplanes have been pounding the...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday called for an end to the massacre in Syria after fresh air strikes on a rebel-held enclave in the...

US President Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that arming teachers could help prevent massacres such as last week's mass shooting at a Florida high school.Trump...

Barnaby Joyce says he will resign as Australia's deputy prime minister following a politically damaging saga that began with his affair with a former staffer.Mr...

US President Donald Trump has signaled he is willing to join a discussion on gun restrictions amid the national outcry led by teenagers who survived...

Moscow on Wednesday said it would be very difficult to improve US-Russia relations, which have plummeted to Cold War lows on accusations of election meddling...

A surge in attacks by the Syrian government and its allies killed 94 people in the rebel pocket of eastern Ghouta in the space of...

A British academic who blackmailed victims into sending him increasingly depraved images which he shared on dark web forums was jailed for 32 years on...

The campaign for Mexico's July 1 presidential election began in earnest Sunday as the country's top parties officially nominated their candidates, with all three front-runners...

Frustrated by Brexit negotiations, angry at Brussels or simply afraid of the future, ordinary Britons and other Europeans are already taking life-changing decisions a year...

Five women have been killed in a shooting at a church in Russia's volatile republic of Dagestan. Five others, including a police officer and a...

Saudi Arabia, a country known for its draconian policies on arts and entertainment, is all set to host its first-ever fashion week next month.The Dubai-based...

Libyans gather in Tripoli's Martyrs' Square on February 16, as celebrations get underway to mark the seventh anniversary of the revolution that toppled and killed...

Photo of The Transavia Airlines flight from Dubai that landed urgently in Vienna over farting issue.-APAn Amsterdam-bound flight was forced to make an emergency landing...

Venezuela's opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez in Caracas, Venezuela July 8, 2017. -ReutersVenezuela's hardline opposition party Popular Will, whose leader Leopoldo Lopez would be a leading...

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has sharply rebuked his Polish counterpart for saying that Jews were among the perpetrators of the Holocaust.He said the remarks by...

The special counsel probing Russian meddling in the US election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign questioned former White House adviser Steve Bannon this...

Long necks, large chins, flapping ears and crooked noses — welcome to Ugly Models, a London modelling agency of a different stripe, where imperfections are...

The Senate has left hundreds of thousands of “Dreamer” immigrants in limbo, rejecting rival plans that would have spared them from deportation and strengthened the...

The Brazilian government has appointed an army general to oversee security in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in response to growing gang violence.President Michel...

Washington's top envoy Tuesday called on allies to keep fighting the Islamic State group, saying the end of major combat did not mean enduring defeat...

President Donald Trump released his second budget on Monday (Feb 12), seeking to bolster military spending and requesting funds for infrastructure, construction of a wall...

Donald Trump Jr and his wife Vanessa speak with Jared Kushner during inauguration ceremonies for the swearing in of Donald Trump as the 45th president...

German Chancellor Angela MerkelGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives entered coalition talks Sunday with knotty issues still to untangle with their historic center-left rivals, but a...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends an interview with Reuters at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, July 21, 2016A total of 3,500 police have been...

Indian BSF Commandant Jibu D Mathew CollectedThe BSF commander was caught with over Rs45 lakhIndian law enforcement agency has arrested a commandant of the Border...

The declassified Republican document released Friday claimed that Democratic-funded research prompted the FBI to spy on a former Trump campaign aideUS President Donald Trump claimed...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned that China and Russia are assuming "alarming" roles in Latin America and urged regional powers to work with the...

File photo: Aung San Suu Kyi smiles after a meeting with Norway's Foreign Minister Borge Brende (not in picture) at Myanmar's Foreign Ministry in Naypyitaw,...

An Australian MP has become the 10th politician to be unseated from parliament over a dual nationality saga.Labor MP David Feeney said he would resign...

Turkish court releases local Amnesty chief Taner Kilic Officials say trial of Amnesty chair in Turkey on terror charges will go ahead about 14 hours...

Athletics Olympic - Flame Handover Ceremony For Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics - Panathenaic Stadium, Athens, Greece - October 31, 2017 General view of the flame during...

Protestors rally during a demonstration against the Muslim immigration ban in Washington. -CollectedThe United States on Monday lifted a ban on admissions to refugees from...

 The United States on Monday lifted a ban on admissions to refugees from 11 countries that it identified present a high security risk, while announcing...

United States police said three men and two women have been found dead in a shooting at a Pennsylvania car wash.The shooting occurred shortly before...

Demonstrators wear repeal masks at The March for Choice in Dublin, a demonstration demanding change to Ireland's strict abortion laws. -APIreland's cabinet will hold a...

'The Rohingya repatriation plan offered by the Burmese terrorist government is not any where near to the solution but it creates more annihilation to the...

Australia has said it plans to become one of the world's top 10 defence industry exporters within a decade.The nation currently sells about A$2bn (£1.15bn;...

File photo of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi - ReutersThe flamboyant Indian prime minister’s 50-minute speech in Hindi failed to impress the attendants at DavosDespite...

US President Donald Trump speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the interview took place - AFP'The EU has treated the US very...

Kurdish protesters hold placards branding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a "terrorist" over Ankara's offensive in northern Syria. -AFPHundreds of Kurds took to the...

File photo: Ain Dara, an Iron Age Syro-Hittite temple, located northwest of Aleppo, Syria Wiki Media CommonsThe Turkish military was not immediately available for commentThe...

Associated Press’ Asia Producer Becky Horsbrugh posing for photo after successfully crossing the 16-kilometre Bangla Channel from Teknaf to the Saint Martin's Island in the...

At least another six people were injured and are hospitalized in Fortaleza, said Andre Costa, who heads the Ceara state security secretariat, which oversees police...

Eight Iraqis were killed on Saturday, most of them security personnel, in a US air strike that apparently targeted them by mistake, a provincial official...

Czechs have been going to the polls in a tightly contested presidential election run-off, seen as a vote on the Czech Republic's direction.The election sees...

Rescuers are searching for a ferry with an estimated 50 people on board after it went missing in the Kiribati Islands.The MV Butiraoi departed from...

US Ambassador Nikki Haley has slammed rumours that she was having an affair with President Donald Trump as "highly offensive" and "disgusting."The rumors stem from...

Six top male BBC presenters agreed to take wage cuts Friday after the broadcaster's female China editor quit in protest over unequal pay.The six, who...

Members of Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army police forces secure the road as they escort a convoy near Azaz in Syria on Friday Photo - Reuters Turkey...