Thailand's junta chief yesterday said those who felt his government should do more to help stranded boatpeople should "migrate" to

Islamic State controls more than half of Syria's territory after its captured the ancient city of Palmyra, a group monitoring the war said on Thursday.

Thailand's junta chief yesterday said those who felt his government should do more to help stranded boatpeople should "migrate" to

White House hopeful Rand Paul theatrically brought the Senate to a standstill Wednesday, delivering a 10-hour, 30-minute speech seeking to end intelligence agency bulk telephone data collection from millions of Americans.

The gap between the rich and poor in most of the world's advanced economies is at record levels, according to an OECD study that also

China's land reclamation around reefs in the disputed South China Sea is undermining freedom and stability, and risks provoking

Kiev lawmakers yesterday annulled five crucial security agreements with Moscow that had allowed Russia to transport troops to a

Protesters in Burundi battled police yesterday in violent anti-government demonstrations against a third term bid for power by the

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific yesterday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami

Human rights group Amnesty International yesterday honoured Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei and US folk singer Joan Baez as joint

The United States said Wednesday it plans to sell thousands of bombs and missiles to Israel as well as 10 Seahawk helicopters to Saudi

Four Ministers belonging to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) yesterday resigned from the government. The Ministers — Mahinda Yapa

A group of United Nations human rights experts have welcome the Malaysian, Indonesian and Thai leaders’ decision not to pushback migrants and asylum seekers arriving in their territorial waters.

Pakistan has charged 106 people with murder after a Christian couple was beaten and burnt to death by a mob in Punjab province over blasphemy allegations.

India has successfully landed a fighter jet on an expressway for the first time as a part of trials to use roads for emergency landings.

The gap between the rich and the poor keeps widening, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has ruled out helping resettle the wave of migrants fleeing to Southeast Asia, saying it would worsen the problem and "encourage people to get on boats".

The Malaysian Indian Muslim Restaurant Owners Association (Presma) offers to hire the Rohingya and Bangladeshi boat migrants who are temporarily allowed to land in Malaysia.

Saudi shells hit an international humanitarian aid office in northern Yemen, killing five Ethiopian refugees and wounding ten, a local official says.

Punjab cabinet gave its nod to bill for protecting female victims of violence and setting up vigilance committees to monitor implementation of steps proposed under National Action Plan.