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The driver of the bus in which a young Indian woman was gang-raped and fatally injured in December hanged himself in New Delhi's Tihar jail on Monday, officials said, a dramatic twist in a case that has provoked outrage across India.
Ram Singh...
The world's tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass, or plant material, this century due to the effects of global warming than previously thought, scientists said in a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday.
This...
DOHA — Qatar does not expect to give further financial aid to Egypt in the immediate future, Qatari Finance Minister Youssef Kamal said Monday.
"We already announced LE3 billion (US$5 billion)," Kamal told Reuters, when asked how...
Egypt does not need bridging financing as offered by the International Monetary Fund to some countries, but rather broad structural measures to tackle its budget deficit, Planning and International Cooperation Minister Ashraf al-Araby said Sunday....
The number of refugees outside Syria could triple by the end of the year from the 1 million registered now if there is no political solution to the conflict, the head of the United Nations refugee agency said Sunday.
The millionth Syrian refugee was...
Uhuru Kenyatta, indicted for crimes against humanity, was declared winner of Kenya's presidential election on Saturday with a tiny margin, just enough to avoid a run-off after a race that has divided the nation along tribal lines....
PORT SAID—Thousands of Egyptians packed the streets of the Suez Canal city of Port Said on Friday in protest at the deaths of local people in clashes with police and ahead of a court decision in a contentious football riot case.
Violence has...
CARACAS—At least two dozen heads of state were due to attend Hugo Chavez's funeral on Friday during an outpouring of grief for the charismatic but divisive Venezuelan leader who changed the face of politics in South America.
Chavez died on...
Israeli police fired stun grenades to disperse Palestinian worshippers who had thrown rocks and firebombs at them after Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, police said.
Dozens of officers entered the...
To Egypt's opposition, a court ruling throwing the electoral process into limbo offers an opportunity to force Islamist President Mohamed Morsy into compromise as the country heads towards chaos.
Leaders of liberal and leftist parties believe...
