Baltimore's top prosecutor says she plans to file criminal charges against six officers in the case of Freddie Gray who died in police custody.

Pakistani Embassy in Kathmandu refuses media reports that some food items sent by Pakistan as relief aid to Nepal contain cow meat.

Nigerian troops have rescued about 160 more hostages from Boko Haram's Sambisa Forest stronghold in northeast Nigeria, the country's

The United States sought Iran's help to bring Yemen's warring parties into talks on a political settlement when US and Iranian foreign

Sri Lanka's minority ruling party urged President Maithripala Sirisena Wednesday to call a snap general election to strengthen its

In a rare display of political unity, South and North Korea yesterday both condemned Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for failing to

A 14-year-old girl in India has died and her mother has been seriously injured after they were allegedly thrown from a bus by three men

Thousands demonstrated in US East Coast cities Wednesday demanding equal treatment for all by police, after a young African

Rescuers pulled a 15-year-old boy alive from the rubble of Nepal's earthquake yesterday, bringing a rare moment of joy to the ruined capital Kathmandu, five days after a disaster which killed nearly 6,000 people. The rescue of Pemba Tamang, who told AFP that he stayed alive by eating ghee, was hailed as a miracle and greeted with cheers from crowds of bystanders who massed to watch the drama unfold at a ruined guesthouse.

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif yesterday called up PM Narendra Modi and expressed his condolences on loss of lives in India due to

With its sewage system badly damaged, carcasses rotting in the rubble and thousands of people sleeping rough, experts say Nepal

Narendra Modi told reporters on Wednesday that Nepal's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, who was away on an official visit to Thailand,

Climbing will resume on Mount Everest by next week after an earthquake-triggered avalanche that left 18 people dead on the world's highest peak, a Nepalese government official said yesterday. Saturday's avalanche that ripped through base camp also destroyed ladders through the treacherous Khumbu icefall higher up the mountain, raising doubts about the future of this year's climbing season.

Two housewives were murdered in Sirajganj and Naogaon districts yesterday and the day before.

One of America's most liberal senators, Vermont's Bernie Sanders, said Wednesday that he will seek the Democratic presidential

China will hold joint naval drills with Russia in mid-May in the Mediterranean Sea, the first time the two countries will hold military

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will not attend events in Moscow next week commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World

Vietnam's premier yesterday hit out at the "barbarous crimes" of its wartime American foe as the nation marked four decades since

French leader Francois Hollande yesterday vowed to "show no mercy" if peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic accused

A US panel tracking international religious freedom has, in its latest report on India, noted that religious minorities in the country were