Nine people including several aid workers have been killed in an attack by unknown gunmen in northern Afghanistan.police chief Abdul Razaq Qaderi told... Read More
A ship carrying more than 450 people has sunk after being caught in a storm on the Yangtze River in southern China.The Xinhua News Agency said eight people... Read More
The United States has urged Malaysia to work closely with the United Nations' refugee agency in processing migrants rescued off its shores.US Assistant... Read More
Scattered rain yesterday, brought much-needed but only temporary relief to parts of India hit by a long heat-wave as the death toll from the blistering... Read More
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his right femur in a cycling accident in France, last morning.The injury is near the site of a previous hip surgery,... Read More
Suicide bombing and grenade attacks have killed at least 39 in Nigeria.26 were killed and 28 injured last afternoon in a suicide bomb attack inside a mosque... Read More
The European Union has responded angrily to Russia's entry ban against 89 European politicians, officials and military leaders.
Those banned are believed... Read More
A man who received the world's first face transplant and the donor's sister have met face to face for the first time.In their meeting, Rebekah Aversano... Read More
For years, the tally of Russian troops who died at war has been a state secret.Now, President Vladimir Putin says his government won't reveal the number... Read More
The massive heatwave sweeping India is starting to ease, with forecasts of rain in some affected states.Officials say nearly 1,700 people have died in... Read More
Tajikistan's Special Forces chief has appeared in a video claiming to have joined Islamic State forces in Syria.Gulmurod Khalimov is seen in the footage... Read More
An Islamist coalition that includes Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front has taken over one of the last government strongholds in western Idlib province,.the... Read More
By releasing video of Beijing’s island reclamation work and considering more assertive maritime actions, the United States is signalling a tougher... Read More
Russia's army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the... Read More
Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni says he has survived an assassination attempt by gunmen who attacked his car in the city of Tobruk.A government... Read More
According to a strategy document, China is to focus on projecting its military presence beyond its borders at sea.The navy will shift its focus to "open... Read More
Russia's military forces have begun a large exercise involving around 250 aircraft and 12,000 service personnel.The ministry described the four-day drill... Read More
At least 700 people are reported to have died in a heatwave sweeping India, with temperatures reaching 48 centigrade’s in some areas.Most deaths... Read More
Malaysian police say 139 suspected migrant grave sites have been found in 28 people-trafficking camps along the Thai border.National police chief Khalid... Read More
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said that the city of Ramadi could be taken back from Islamic State militants "in days".Iraqi forces have suffered... Read More