Brazilian workers remove more than 33 tonnes of dead fish from the 2016 Olympic rowing and canoeing venue in Rio de Janeiro.

The search area for flight MH370 will double in size to encompass a vast Indian Ocean corridor if wreckage remains elusive, Malaysia,

Hillary Rodham Clinton came to Iowa to give voters an intimate glance of who she'd be as president. What they got instead was a

Top Russian officials yesterday accused the United States of seeking political and military dominance in the world and sought to put blame on the West for international security crises, including the conflict in east Ukraine. Evoking Cold War-style rhetoric, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said a drive by the United States and its allies to bring Kiev closer to the West was a threat to Moscow and had forced it to react.

The US state of Texas killed its sixth death row inmate of the year Wednesday, prison officials said, after replenishing a lethal injection

Pakistan and Russia have agreed to hold first-ever joint military exercises as part of their enhanced defence cooperation, in a sign of

An official said Surya Bahadur Thapa, who served as Nepal's prime minister five times, died on Wednesday while being treated for

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Pakistan next week, Islamabad said yesterday, with investment in the energy sector and Taliban

The UN envoy to Yemen has resigned after failing to avert large-scale violence, dealing a blow to hopes of a diplomatic solution to the

Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday stayed executions handed down by the country's controversial new military courts, set up in the

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi returned home yesterday from his 56-day unexplained sabbatical which had raised questions

In a sign of warm personal friendship, US President Barack Obama has written a profile for Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Time

Sixteen Myanmar soldiers died in a major offensive to flush rebels from a strategic hill-top in the northeastern region bordering China,

Police have detained a 61-year-old man who flew a gyrocopter onto the lawn of the US Capitol building in Washington – carrying with

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos lifted a suspension of air strikes against the Farc after the Marxist guerrillas were suspected in

Islamic State (ISIS) has stepped up its assault on the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, launching a series of suicide bomb attacks on a

Major world powers and Iran will hold fresh talks in Vienna on April 22-23 to build on the framework accord reached on Tehran's

More than 40 people have drowned off Sicily as Italy calls for more help from the EU to handle the surge in migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

Pakistan's Supreme Court suspends death sentences passed by controversial new military tribunals, until it rules on the legality of the sentences.

A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views has been shot dead in the capital Kiev.