An Iranian officer has been killed near the Iraqi city of Ramadi while advising Iraqi forces on how to recapture it from the Islamic State

The government of Mauritius yesterday designated Ameenah Gurib-Fakim as the Indian Ocean island nation's new president, making her the first woman to hold the ceremonial position.

More than 700 migrants found packed aboard an overcrowded boat in the Andaman Sea were still being held offshore by Myanmar's navy

Paris, known worldwide as the city of romance, yesterday began the heart-breaking process of removing tens of thousands of "love-locks", padlocks chained to the city's bridges by love-struck couples.

Sixty-nine people burnt to death in southeast Nigeria after a petrol tanker lost control, rammed into a busy bus station and burst into flames, the Red Cross and police said yesterday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened an opposition daily which published footage allegedly showing trucks belonging to the state intelligence service carrying weapons to rebels in Syria, vowing it will pay a "heavy price".

A Songkhla province court approves an arrest warrant for a top army officer accused of smuggling Rohingya Muslim migrants into Thailand.

If all the ice on land melted and the sea level were to rise 216 feet, entire Bangladesh, home to 160 million people, would be completely inundated.

The legal authority for US spy agencies' collection of Americans' phone records and other data expired at midnight on Sunday after the US Senate failed to pass legislation extending the powers.

Delhi, surrounding areas wake up to a cooler morning as mercury dropped to around 30°C from weeks of unrelenting temperatures caused by a heat wave that killed over 2,200 people in India.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be relying but on white-turbaned clerics from Al-Azhar, Egypt's 1,000-year-old center for Islamic learning in his battle against militant Islam.

Public smoking in China's capital, Beijing, is now banned after the introduction of a new law.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani demanded tough action from Pakistan against Taliban militants in a letter seeking greater anti-terrorism

Five people were killed and eight wounded in a suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State outside the Libyan city of Misrata yesterday,

Six world powers have agreed on a way to restore UN sanctions on Iran if the country breaks the terms of a future nuclear deal,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday said he was committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state, calling on the

China yesterday rejected US demands to stop reclamation works in the South China Sea, saying it was exercising its sovereignty and

US police have killed people at a rate of more than two a day this year, The Washington Post reported yesterday, using its own tally for

India's defence minister has voiced concern that the radical Islamist group ISIS could obtain a nuclear weapon from "states like

A fire at a small clinic in northeast Syria yesterday killed 27 people, mostly children, and injured about 30 others, official media said.