Russia drew sharp criticism at the UN Security Council on Friday for launching massive missile and drone attacks against Ukraine, after Kyiv and its supporters...

Three people died on Dec 28 after their car fell into a river in northern England, local police said, as Storm Gerrit battered much of...

Rescue crews were Wednesday searching for survivors after seven people died in heavy storms across Australia's eastern seaboard, including a 40-year-old woman sucked into a...

Hundreds of Indonesian workers protested on Wednesday (Dec 27) against conditions at a Chinese-funded nickel-processing plant where an explosion killed at least 18 people and...

For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For...

The organisers of the first protest against Argentine President Javier Milei’s government will have to cough up tens of thousands of dollars to cover the...

Hamas’ top leader traveled to Cairo on Wednesday for talks on the war in Gaza, part of a flurry of diplomacy to secure another cease-fire...

The Philippine defense minister rebuked China on Wednesday for accusing his country of provoking tension and stirring trouble in the South China Sea, saying only...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held high-level talks with a North Korean Vice-Foreign Minister in Beijing on Dec 18, coinciding with Pyongyang’s launch of a...

A senior police officer was charged in a Magistrate's Court in the Malaysian state of Perak on Monday (Dec 18) with the murder of a...

A flagship immigration bill proposed by President Emmanuel Macron was rejected by the French parliament on Monday, prompting the Interior Minister to offer to resign...

Australia on Monday said it would tighten visa rules for international students and low-skilled workers that could halve its migrant intake over the next two...

A senior UN aid official has warned that half of Gaza's population is starving, as fighting there continues.Carl Skau, deputy director of the UN World...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a staunch ally of Moscow, is visiting China Sunday and Monday to meet his counterpart Xi Jinping, the Belarusian presidency said.On...

Indians can now visit Saudi Arabia and perform Umrah on stopover, business and tourism visas as the Arab nation has announced a range of measures...

Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia's Mount Marapi volcano found more bodies among the climbers caught by a surprise eruption two days ago, raising...

A US warship shot down three drones after three commercial vessels came under attack in the Red Sea, the US military has said.It said the...

Ravi Teja and his four friends were ecstatic when they arrived at Sonmarg on the northern edge of the Kashmir valley.At the point where a...

At Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, a man cradling a boy with a bloodied scalp cried for help. A girl who had arrived in an...

Henry Kissinger, a controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner and diplomatic powerhouse whose service under two presidents left an indelible mark on US foreign policy, died...

The Indonesian Coal Mining Association (ICMA) expects the country's 2023 coal output to surpass the official target of 695 million metric tons, a group official...

Malaysia is scrapping entry visa requirements for Indian and Chinese citizens from the beginning of December, in a bid to boost tourism.Travellers from India will...

The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first...

Indonesian police and fishermen said on Nov 25 they have begun patrolling parts of the country’s westernmost province to prevent Rohingya refugees from landing on...

Hamas is expected to release another group of hostages from Gaza on Saturday, the second day of a four-day truce with Israel.Israeli authorities said they...

The first images emerged on Tuesday of 41 men trapped for more than a week in a highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas, showing them...

Nursery teachers and midwives will be among the star guests at the Princess of Wales’ now-traditional Christmas carols service.Kate is making the service a celebration...

An exodus of big-name advertisers appeared underway at X, formerly Twitter, on Friday (Nov 18) in the wake of Elon Musk endorsing an anti-Semitic conspiracy...

Lai Ching-te, the frontrunner for Taiwan's presidency, has picked Taipei's envoy to the United States - a fluent English speaker with deep connections in Washington...

A Myanmar fighter jet has crashed during clashes between the military and an insurgent group, both sides said, in another setback for a junta facing...

Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Diwali, on the first day of his four-day visit to...

Tim Scott, a GOP senator from South Carolina dropped out of the 2024 presidential race shortly after publicly debuting his relationship with his girlfriend after...

A rebel alliance has overrun parts of northern Myanmar, including areas bordering China, with resistance to the military junta notching its most significant win since...

Singaporeans placed on the non-voter list will be able to apply to restore their names to the Registers of Electors from Friday (Nov 10), said...

US President Joe Biden, when responding to a heckler at a Minnesota campaign event on Wednesday (Nov 1) night, said he thinks there should be...

Heavy fighting between rebels and the Myanmar military stretched into a second day near the country's northern border with China, armed groups said on Saturday.Myanmar's...

Bangladesh's opposition leader and dozens of members of his party have been arrested after violent anti-government protests in Dhaka.Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary general of...

Gaza needs billions of dollars in international economic aid to compensate for years of restrictions that have stifled its economy and curbed its development, according...

Hong Kong leader John Lee said on Wednesday (Oct 25) that the semi-autonomous city would create its own national security law in 2024, four years...

Israeli aircraft struck a compound beneath a mosque in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday that the military said was being used by Hamas...

Egypt opens a summit on the Gaza crisis on Saturday to try to head off a wider regional war but assembled Middle Eastern and European...

Chanting slogans urging Islamist Hamas militants to intensify their strikes on Israel, thousands of Jordanians marched in the capital and around the country on Friday...

Australia’s failed referendum on the Indigenous Voice has set back the government’s plans to cut the nation’s constitutional ties to Britain’s King Charles III, a...

The question of whether Iran was involved at any level in this month’s deadly attack on Israel may not be conclusively answered for years.But the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on a widely watched trip aimed at showcasing the...

Indigenous Australian leaders on Sunday called for a week of silence and reflection after a referendum to recognise First Peoples in the constitution was decisively...

Gunmen killed six labourers in an overnight raid in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, officials said Saturday, in the region's latest bout of violence. Balochistan has...

Voting closed Saturday in New Zealand and ballot counting was underway in a general election, with opinion polls indicating people were favoring a conservative change...

Shares of India's Tata Consultancy Services fell as much as 1.8 per cent on Thursday, as investors worried that a recovery in demand was still...

Russia launched 36 Iranian-made attack drones against southern Ukraine overnight, damaging infrastructure in the Odesa region, authorities said.The strikes targeted the Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson...