KINSHASA: Flooding this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo port city of Boma killed at least 50 people and left another 10,000...
KINSHASA: Flooding this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo port city of Boma killed at least 50 people and left another 10,000...
Hong Kong: Busy traffic, loud noise and constant passers-by? Not a problem for these cats. Four-legged "assistants" can be found perched in certain...
BEIJING: Thousands among China's middle class are signing online petitions to protest the dropping of an alleged police brutality case, representing a rare...
HYDERABAD: Vasudeva Prakash left his job as a mechanic in Hyderabad three years ago for what he calls a more lucrative career: taking...
SHANGHAI: When her father’s lung cancer worsened, Yin Min, a 51-year-old financial broker from Shanghai, faced a choice: pay nearly $3,000 a month...
MUMBAI: An increase in baby trafficking in India is reducing the number of children available for adoption and fuelling the lucrative trade as...
Eight human traffickers found guilty of torturing and chopping off the hands of two labourers have received life prison sentences and hefty fines,...
Berlin: German police on Wednesday detained a Tunisian national on suspicion of having ties to Anis Amri, the suspected Berlin truck attacker gunned...
DOHA: A leading Bahraini activist was granted bail on Wednesday after months of detention while facing trail over a series of tweets. Nabeel...
MOSCOW: Another black box from the Russian plane which went down over the Black Sea on Sunday, killing all 92 people on board,...
Amman: A court in Amman on Wednesday sentenced to death five Jordanian members of a dismantled cell linked to the Islamic State jihadist...
Islamabad: Pakistani police on Wednesday caught three men accused of preparing home-made liquor mixed with aftershave that killed 34 people including a fourth...
JERUSALEM: Dozens of Jewish settlers on Wednesday forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound where they tried to perform Talmudic...
Cold weather causes ice dams and icicles hang from gutter eaves of roofs. Weather affects the everyday lives of people where temperature dropped...
NIAMEY: Dozens of Boko Haram fighters have given themselves up to authorities in southern Niger, the interior minister said, days after the Islamist...
ISTANBUL: Lebanon’s parliament on Wednesday approved a new cabinet lineup headed by Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency....
MOSCOW: Russia’s presidential envoy to Afghanistan admits that destabilization in the country following the 1979 Soviet invasion might have led to the emergence...
Turkey: The number of injured Aleppans treated in Turkey reached 273 after evacuation from the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo, the Turkish government...
