Egypt's judicial system is showing a 'degree of independence' from the country's government by overturning a life sentence against deposed leader Mohamed Morsi of...
By the end of 2016, almost half of the world's population will be using the internet, a report by the UN's International Telecommunications Union says.
The United States on Thursday launched a bid at the Security Council to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan following UN warnings that the war-torn country...
Two white South African men have appeared in court on charges of assault and kidnapping after a video showed them forcing a wailing black man into a coffin.
A radical shift in the energy sector, cutting emissions to zero by around 2040, is needed to limit the global rise in temperature at 1.5 degrees Celsius, the...
The United Nations has warned that 75,000 Nigerian children risk dying in 'a few months' as hunger grips the country's ravaged northeast in the wake of the Boko...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he's sure Donald Trump will understand the seriousness of climate change as president and reconsider his earlier remarks.
A week after climate change denier Donald Trump's election to the White House, world leaders will address a key UN meeting in Marrakech to keep a climate rescue...
An unidentified source working on US President-elect Donald Trump's transition team says ways to extricate the US from a global climate deal is being looked at.
Thai migrant women are victims of domestic violence at seven times the national rate, mostly at the hands of their Australian-born partners, the latest data shows.
A Bangladeshi doctor and her two children are facing deportation after her daughter's developmental delay lead to the rejection of their application to stay in...
The thing about domestic violence, for many of us it just seems like too big a problem, too hard for us to do anything meaningful about: but one company is...
Tyrone Unsworth, a 13-year-old Brisbane high-school student, took his life earlier this week following years of relentless bullying over his sexuality.