Gunmen attacked Shiite pilgrims as they were celebrating Ashura in a Kabul shrine in a raid called an "atrocity" by the UN. At least 14 people lost their lives.
Lawyers for the main suspect in the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, said that they will no longer defend him. The 26-year-old French national of Moroccan origin, whose older brother Brahim blew hims...
New tin roofs gleam in the Caribbean sun, and UN and US charity teams have appeared on now-cleared roads, showing on Tuesday that southern Haiti is finally getting some of the aid it desperately ne...
A small group of Palestinian children on Tuesday marched towards a football pitch near the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, in the occupied West Bank, to demand that FIFA kicks out six Israeli c...
Afghanistan has deployed hundreds of commandos backed by NATO air strikes in Lashkar Gah to flush out Taliban insurgents from the strategic city after the militants killed 14 people in a coordinate...
Burundi on Monday barred three United Nations rights experts who had accused the government in Bujumbura of being responsible for abuses and warned of a danger of genocide from the violence.VIDEOGR...
In the wake of World War II -- as the Cold War began -- the Korean peninsula was divided along the 38th parallel. The north received Soviet backing, while the United States supported the south.In 1...
Analysis published of recent satellite images fuelled concerns that North Korea may be on the brink of another nuclear test or long-range rocket launch. Speculation that Pyongyang is preparing such...
Police in Ankara use tear gas and plastic bullets to prevent pro-Kurdish activists from holding a protest to mark the first anniversary of the worst attack in Turkey's modern history.
Ethiopia says "foreign enemies" like Egypt are behind an unprecedented wave of protests that has prompted the government to declare a six-month state of emergency.
Gunmen attacked Shiite pilgrims as they were celebrating Ashura in a Kabul shrine in a raid called an "atrocity" by the UN. At least 14 people lost their lives.
Hong Kong rebel lawmakers swore, shouted, banged drums and railed against "tyranny" when they took their oaths of office in the city's parliament, as calls grow for a split from Beijing.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and rival Hillary Clinton's team attack each other after anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks published new hacked emails from the head of Hillary Clinton's...
Former Vice President and environmental activist Al Gore joins Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail. The two stressed the importance of addressing climate change, saying that rival Donald Trump wo...
The acronym BRIC was coined in 2001 by Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill to describe the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The term quickly became shorthand for the eme...
Europe is made up of nation-states…but not all nations have their own state (country). This often inspires political movements seeking independence. VIDEOGRAPHIC
Lawyers for the main suspect in the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, said that they will no longer defend him. The 26-year-old French national of Moroccan origin, whose older brother Brahim blew hims...
Passengers on India's vast railway network have long complained of the terrible meals on offer to sustain them on long journeys, but a slew of new services bringing fast food to their seats is chan...
New tin roofs gleam in the Caribbean sun, and UN and US charity teams have appeared on now-cleared roads, showing on Tuesday that southern Haiti is finally getting some of the aid it desperately ne...
Nicolas Flores was supposed to live the rest of his life as a vegetable, but today he walks, talks and swims -- one of the miracles attributed to a "cowboy priest" who will become Argentina's first...
Are you brave enough to swim through Arctic waters, be zapped by electricity or wade through suction mud? Then you're not alone. An estimated six million people around the world will take on an obs...
Families living near the Somali border in Kenya are being encouraged to send their daughters to school, in an initiative backed by Save the Children and the Kenyan government. More than four in 10 ...