Reuters

Seventy-six people, including 28 children, were killed on Sunday when Syrian army helicopters dropped “barrel bombs” on the northern city…

Chinese police shot and killed 14 people during a riot near the old Silk Road city of Kashgar in which…

uicide attacks and bombings across Iraq killed at least 21 people on Monday, medical and police sources said, the latest…

Fighting erupted between South Sudanese soldiers overnight around the capital and gunfire and explosions could still be heard on Monday…

Iran will continue nuclear negotiations with world powers despite "unsuitable actions" which led to it halting technical talks in Vienna,…

Armed men stabbed a Japanese diplomat in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday when he resisted a kidnapping attempt in…

South Africa held a state funeral for Nelson Mandela on Sunday, closing one chapter in its tortured history and opening…

Separatist parties in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region on Thursday agreed the wording of an independence referendum on November 9, 2014,…

A decision by the Indian Supreme Court to reinstate a ban on gay sex represents a “significant step backwards for…

Anti-government protesters in Thailand pinned their hopes on winning support from the powerful security forces on Thursday as they push…