Hundreds of migrants found by the BBC last week in a boat drifting off the coast of Thailand have been rescued by Indonesian fishermen.

Qatar has made little progress improving migrant workers' rights, despite promises to do so, the rights group Amnesty International has said.

Laden was fixated on attacking US targets and pressured al Qaeda groups to heal local rivalries and focus on that cause,according to documents the US says were seized in his hideout in Pakistan.

Zambia has lifted a ban on the hunting of big cats that was imposed over allegations of corruption in the awarding of government hunting

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court holding the trial of the seven Mumbai attack accused, including mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi,

AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa will be sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu on May 23, a day after her MLAs meet and elect her as the

A court in Pakistan has jailed an Imam or prayer leader for five years for inciting hate against a rival Shia sect, officials said yesterday.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday said a local investigation into allegations of war crimes committed during the island's

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday ruled out allowing nuclear inspectors to visit military sites or to question

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) yesterday said that though probability of future aftershocks in Nepal was lower than its

The Islamic State rakes in over $1 million per day in extortion and taxation and the dreaded terror group has enough assets to cover its expenses despite falling oil prices, according to a media report.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday ordered the suspension of a controversial ban on Palestinians riding the same buses as Jewish settlers when returning from Israel to the West Bank.

A US hunter who paid $350,000 to kill a black rhinoceros in Namibia successfully shot the animal on Monday, saying that his actions would help protect the critically-endangered species.

From rescuing migrants at sea to donating all they can, residents of Indonesia's Aceh province are warmly welcoming hundreds of desperate fellow Muslims who have fled their homelands -- a contrast to the rejection they face elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

The United States said it is considering accelerating the training and equipping of Iraqi tribal forces to fight the Islamic State group after the fall of the city of Ramadi.

Islamic State group fighters recaptured the north of Syria's historic city of Palmyra yesterday in another setback to efforts to repel the advancing jihadists after the fall of Iraq's Ramadi.

US President Barack Obama breaks a Guinness record by becoming the fastest person to garner one million followers on Twitter, a feat he accomplished in less than five hours with his new account @POTUS, Efe news agency reported.

One of the great physics experiments of our age looks ready to begin its quest.

Five of the world's largest banks are to pay fines totalling $5.7bn (£3.6bn) for manipulating the foreign exchange market, US officials say.

The United Nations and the United States condemns a mortar attack on the Russian embassy in Damascus that did not, however, cause any known injuries.