The captain allegedly paid by Australia to return asylum seekers to Indonesia begged for help ...
First bombing in the Lebanese capital since a series in response to Hezbollah's intervention in the ...
Israeli undercover forces raided a hospital in the West Bank on Thursday, shooting dead a ...
Finance Minister warns of a refugee "avalanche" that "could become pretty bad for us all".
Islamic State has been and is continuing to perpetrate a genocide against the Yazidi minority in ...
During the Inca civilization, which thrived in South America before the arrival of Europeans, ...
Pressure on former University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe to resign was coming from all sides, ...
Kurdish forces aided by thousands of lightly armed Yazidi fighters captured a strategic highway in ...
Outspoken black activism over racism has spread from the Black Lives Matter movement to US ...
Bangkok: Thai police have arrested a Thai taxi driver after he assaulted an Australian man ...
An ageing mobster who for decades adhered to the Mafia's strict code of silence has been acquitted ...
Aung San Suu Kyi has officially been declared the winner of Myanmar's election, making history in ...
The United Nations' World Food Program has turned to technology to let people donate money to help ...
After a staggering decline over the past two decades, the population of the iconic monarch ...
The US military has launched a drone strike targeting "Jihadi John" the masked Islamic State ...
Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic expect to transplant a uterus into a woman who lacks one, so she ...
As the world prepares for the most important global climate summit yet - in Paris this month - news ...
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged her millions of supporters to overcome their fears ...
Queues at a polling station swelled to several hundred deep and some voters waited two hours to ...
Media giant News Corp could have exposed the security gaps at Sharm el-Sheikh airport in Egypt five ...
Europe faces a "race against time" to save the Schengen free-travel area, Donald Tusk has warned, ...
Prime Minister of Sweden, which has the most migrants per capita in Europe, calls for rule changes ...
Two US B-52 strategic bombers flew near artificial Chinese islands in the South China Sea this week ...
The rare and flawless "Blue Moon" diamond" has sold for 48.6 million Swiss francs ($67.8 million) - ...
A beaming Malcolm Turnbull, his face streaming with sweat, experienced the Force Majeure of one of ...