Revelers of the Aguia de Ouro samba school perform during the first night of the carnival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on February 6,...
Revelers of the Aguia de Ouro samba school perform during the first night of the carnival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on February 6,...
A Health Ministry employee fumigates a home against the Aedes aegypti mosquito in the San Lucia del Camino community, Oaxaca State, Mexico. AFP/Patricia...
Syrian refugees wait behind the border fence to cross into Turkey on the Turkish-Syrian border, near the southeastern town of Akcakale in Sanliurfa...
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was thrust into the global spotlight Friday with its finding that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (pictured)...
Kiev: Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Friday threatened to quit along with his entire government in the latest escalation of a political...
Representative image Arbil, Iraq: A fire at a hotel in the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region killed 19 people and injured dozens...
“If Ukraine doesn’t come through with the reforms linked to the Minsk peace process, it will be very difficult for Europe to continue...
Can Dundar Istanbul: Two Turkish opposition journalists accused of espionage and trying to overthrow the government in a case that has caused global...
The embalmed corpses of two Catholic saints, including that of the venerated Italian friar Padre Pio (pictured) went on display in St Peter's...
London: Smiling and squinting in the daylight, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke from the balcony of Ecuador's embassy Friday in a rare public...
Washington: BMX star, X Games champion and former MTV host Dave Mirra died Thursday in an apparent suicide, authorities in the US state...
File photo: US president Barack Obama shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping after their informal meeting at the start of the...
Belgrade: Serbia's parliament on Friday dismissed Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic over an insulting remark he made to a female journalist. Lawmakers voted to...
Washington: The Pentagon on Friday welcomed Saudi Arabia's pledge to commit ground forces to fight Islamic State jihadists in Syria, should the US-led...
The Hague: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will meet his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu next week seeking to firm up plans to tackle...
The stance, taken by Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, threw up a road block to Sanchez’ attempts to win support for a viable coalition,...
By Tim McLaughlin and Peter Eisler WASHINGTON: Barack Obama might seem an unlikely investor in the firearms industry. But the U.S. president, a...
Malian soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint at the entrance to Timbuktu, Mali, after unknown assailants attacked and withdrew from inside a U.N....
