24 people dies in southern Somalia after fighting between al Shabaab Islamist militants and government forces.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges Southeast Asian nations to deal with the causes of humanitarian crisis forcing Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants to flee by sea.

Early indications suggest the Republic of Ireland has voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a historic referendum.

65-year-old German woman gives birth to quadruplets after undergoing an artificial insemination procedure, Germany's RTL television reports.

More than 100 people are felled by a blazing heat wave alone in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with the mercury hovering at 47 degrees Celsius at several places across the two states even as the death toll crossed 200 in the two states in the last three days.

Ending more than seven months of administrative uncertainty in Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa sworn in the chief minister at a glittering ceremony in the centenary auditorium of University of Madras, reports The Times of India.

Indonesia has told Australia that most of migrants stranded at sea are illegal labourers from Bangladesh, not oppressed Muslim Rohingya, Australian minister says.

The Bank of England confirms it is researching the financial risks of UK leaving the EU after it "inadvertently" sent details of its work to a national newspaper.

More than 4,000 security staff are in force for Pakistan's nervy win in their first home international fixture since a terror attack in 2009.

At least 43 people have been killed in a shoot-out in the Mexican state of Michoacan.

Northern states in Malaysia, including Penang, are identified as possible locations for temporary settlement of Rohingya migrants.

Ireland went to the polls yesterday to vote on whether same-sex marriage should become legal, in a referendum that has exposed sharp

Amnesty International yesterday accused Ukrainian forces of torture and pro-Russian rebels of even more serious war crimes such as

A Tibetan father-of-four set himself on fire in protest at China's rule over the Himalayan region, overseas media and rights groups said,

European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker lived up to his reputation for straight talking yesterday when he hailed Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban as "dictator" on his arrival at an EU summit in Riga.

The Gaza Strip has the world's highest unemployment and Palestinians, Israelis and donors must take action to avoid a "dangerous fiscal crisis," the World Bank said yesterday.

Saudi Arabia is reportedly planning to make a bid to head the United Nations' Human Rights Council, in a move that has been described as the "final nail in the coffin for the credibility" of the HRC.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has dampened hopes for an end to marathon talks with Greece on a new loan deal as cash-strapped Athens said an agreement was possible by end month.

A stock of documents found in the Pakistan compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 show that the notorious al-Qaeda

Paris's iconic Eiffel Tower was shut to tourists yesterday as staff walked off the job to protest a surge in gangs of pickpockets roaming