Amnesty International yesterday accused the Islamist movement Hamas of committing war crimes against fellow Palestinians to "settle scores" during last year's Gaza war with Israel, executing at least 23 people.

Thai police are investigating whether fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra committed royal defamation in a recent interview, authorities said yesterday as they announced his passports had been revoked.

Over 70 per cent of glacier volume in the Everest region could be lost by 2100 if current trends of greenhouse gases emission continue, a

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius yesterday said that France would oppose a nuclear deal with Iran if it did not allow inspections of military sites.

The Islamic State jihadist group shot dead at least 20 men in the ruins of Syria's ancient city Palmyra yesterday, accusing them of fighting for the government, a monitor said.

India's former prime minister yesterday accused his successor Narendra Modi of suppressing dissent and undermining democratic

The number of hungry people around the world has dropped below 800 million for the first time since the UN started counting, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said in an annual report yesterday.

A group of United Nations human rights experts yesterday expressed alarm at the enactment of the Population Control Healthcare Bill

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday resigned as envoy of the Middle East Quartet diplomatic group after eight years in

Pakistani investigators yesterday arrested the head of software house Axact, Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh, accused of running a global fake

Saudi-led air strikes kill at least 80 people near Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday.

The United States urge Malaysian authorities to carry out a full investigation into the grisly discovery of mass graves at human-trafficking camps and charge those behind the killings.

At least 17 people dies and dozens injured in the US states of Oklahoma and Texas following record rainfall over the weekend.

US hopes that information comes from the maritime surveillance flights will provide an enhanced understanding of the position of boatpeople at sea.

Fifa executives accepted bribes to help secure the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has said.

Painter and photographer Richard Prince shares his words of caution that what you post in Instagram can be shared, and sold, for anyone to see.

Heatwave conditions continue to sweep India where more than 1,100 people have died in the past week, officials say.

Poachers have killed nearly half of Mozambique's elephants for their ivory in the past five years, the US based Wildlife Conservation Society said yesterday.

Nepal banned children from traveling without parents or approved guardians yesterday in an unprecedented move to deter human traffickers who authorities fear are targeting vulnerable families after last month's devastating earthquake.

Australia announced it will amend the law to strip dual nationals linked to terrorism of their citizenship for "betraying the country", but insisted no one would be left stateless.