
Rescuers have pulled dozens of bodies from a capsized cruise ship in China's Yangtze River, as authorities promised no cover-up over the disaster...
Solar Impulse 2 will be stuck in Japan for at least a week, its pilot has said, after it sustained damage to its delicate wing following an impromptu...
Four Thai soldiers returning from a football match were shot dead in an ambush in the country's deep south, police said Thursday....
President Barack Obama yesterday signed into law landmark legislation ending the government's bulk telephone data dragnet, significantly reversing Am...
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) pledged on Wednesday to help find the best way forward for world football following the surprise resignation...
Water consumption dropped 13.5 percent in California in April compared to the same month ...
Mission managers postponed the second launch attempt of a high-altitude balloon carrying NASAs Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehi...
The U.S. Navy took the unusual step Monday of releasing video of a Russian Su-24 aircraft flying past the right side of the guided missile destroyer U...
The heat wave gripping India has killed 2,330 people, officials announced on Tuesday, as meteorologists warned that monsoon rains could still be days ...
A New York-based non-profit educational, advocacy and research organisation has relocated Taslima Nasrin to the United States, countering immediate de...
Andres, the first hurricane of the season in the Pacific, tracked far from Mexico's west coast Sunday, packing 169 kilometer (105 mile) an hour winds...
At least eight civilians were killed and 20 wounded Monday in explosions sparked by Saudi-led air strikes on rebel arms depots around the Yemeni capi...
The European Union has responded angrily to Russia's entry ban against 89 European politicians, officials and military leaders. ...
Thousands of schools damaged during April's devastating earthquake in Nepal have begun to re-open More than 25,000 classrooms in some 8,000 schools w...
Unidentified gunmen late Friday stormed two passenger coaches in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 19 people, officials said....
Japanese authorities have told the residents of remote southern island Kuchinoerabu to evacuate after a violent eruption rocked the Mount Shindake vo...
Myanmar's delegate to talks in Bangkok on Southeast Asia's migrant crisis on Friday rebuked the UN's refugee agency for calling on the country to.......
Amid talk of bonhomie between the two, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to accompany prime minister Narendra Modi on his two-da...
Brussels: The European Union moved Wednesday to help Italy and Greece manage a massive influx of migrants ......
German authorities evacuated around 20,000 people from their homes in the western city of Cologne Wednesday after a World War II bomb was unearthed d...
United Nations said on Tuesday said devastating earthquake in Nepal damaged more than 500,000 homes and cultural heritage sites in the rural areas, r...
At least 800 people have died in a major heatwave that has swept across India, melting roads in New Delhi as temperatures neared 50 degrees Celsius (...
At least 13 people have been killed by a tornado that hit the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Acuna. ...
Washington on Sunday accused Iraqi forces of lacking the will to fight the Islamic State group, which scored a resounding victory a week earlier with...
The following are a set of 25 key achievements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi government in the past one year, as listed by stakeholders and analyst...
Thousands of people have fled to safety following a landslide in western Nepal which blocked the flow of a river....
Saudi Arabia on Saturday confirmed the suicide bomber who killed 21 worshippers at a Shiite mosque had links with the Islamic State group,...
ne of India's most powerful politicians returned Saturday as chief minister of southern Tamil Nadu state, less than a fortnight after a court acquitt...
Mexican federal forces killed 42 suspected drug cartel members Friday during a three-hour-long gunfight in a ranch in a violence-torn western region,...
At least 10 people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, a doctor has told the BBC....