Another patient has died in South Korea amid an outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome bringing total fatalities to 16.

Burmese Naga rebel chieftain SS Khaplang's truce with Myanmar's Thein Sein government in 2012 is believed to have reinvigorated

UN chief Ban Ki-moon yesterday called for an immediate two-week humanitarian pause in Yemen to mark Ramadan as high stakes talks got underway in Geneva to try and end the bloody conflict.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth led celebrations yesterday to mark 800 years since the sealing of the Magna Carta, one of the world's most significant historical documents and credited with paving the way for modern freedoms and human rights.

The NDA government said yesterday it had granted citizenship to nearly 4,300 Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan and Afghanistan in its one year of being in power, nearly four times the number granted to such persons in the preceding five years under UPA-II.

The Aam Aadmi Party yesterday dragged the Prime Minister's Office into the raging row over External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj extending help to scam-tainted former IPL chief Lalit Modi alleging that “PMO may have been in the loop“.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir flew out of South Africa yesterday, dodging a court order for him to stay as judges weighed up whether he should be arrested over alleged war crimes and genocide.

With his campaign logo ready, Jeb Bush was set to make his big announcement yesterday, formally adding his name to the crowded Republican field for the 2016 US presidential election.

The multitude of migration crises facing the world are symptoms of a long line of brutal conflicts and rights violations, the UN rights chief said yesterday.

Nepal is set to reopen all the heritage sites in the Kathmandu valley to the public, in a bid to attract tourists after April's devastating earthquake.

A top Islamist militant who ordered a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant two years ago has been killed in a US air strike in Libya, officials say.

Hong Kong police arrested nine people and seized suspected explosives, authorities said yesterday, as the city goes on high alert ahead of a crucial vote on a China-backed electoral reform package that sparked widespread protests last year.

Seventeen people were killed in Iraq yesterday in clashes between Islamic State militants and pro-government forces in Baiji close to the country's biggest refinery, a focal point in efforts to counter the ultra-hardline Sunni group.

UN rights chief says the multitude of migration crises facing the world are symptoms of a long line of brutal conflicts and rights violations.

Eight hours after Bim Bahadur Gurung starts walking along a mountain path, carrying his severely injured daughter on his back and hoping to find a hospital, a second earthquake strikes already-devastated Nepal.

A 3D printer that can print "cables" of material in any orientation is set to 3D print a steel bridge over a canal in Amsterdam.

A total of 47 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims, who were rescued by Thai authorities last year from Andaman Sea, reach Dhaka.

As prison populations surge in the UK, with overcrowded cells and repeat offenders, the opposite is happening in the Netherlands.

Nepal is set to reopen all the heritage sites in the Kathmandu valley to the public, in a bid to attract tourists after April's devastating earthquake.

A top Islamist militant who ordered a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant two years ago has been killed in a US air strike in Libya, officials say.