The Nigerian opposition has made more gains in the final round of the country's election process.

A man shot and killed himself Saturday near the steps of the US Capitol at the height of tourism season in Washington, leading to a short

A bomb attack on an armoured vehicle of the Egyptian army killed six soldiers and wounded two in the Sinai Peninsula yesterday, the

US President Barack Obama announced Saturday that Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff will visit Washington on June 30, almost two

An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter has been named after Malala Yousafzai. Nasa astronomer Dr Amy Mainzer who discovered

There has been a second Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh, a day after seven personnel of Special Task Force (STF) were killed in an ambush.

Iran's Arabic-language state TV network Al Alam yesterday said its Twitter account had been hacked and a false report was posted that

US President Barack Obama will decide in "the next days" whether to remove Cuba from a blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism, top

Pope Francis yesterday uttered the word "genocide" to describe the mass murder of Armenians 100 years ago, sparking fury from Turkey which slammed the term as "far from historical reality". In a solemn mass in Saint Peter's Basilica to mark the centenary of the Ottoman killings of Armenians, Francis said the murders were "widely considered 'the first genocide of the 20th century'," quoting a statement signed by Pope John Paul II and the Armenian patriarch in 2001.

Hillary Clinton would make a fine US president, Barack Obama told reporters, on the eve of the expected launch of her candidacy for

Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday urged US lawmakers to allow talks with Iran on curbing its nuclear program to be completed

Islamabad yesterday hit out at the United Arab Emirates for condemning a parliamentary vote by Pakistani lawmakers to stay out of the

A Syrian regime air strike hit a school in the main northern city of Aleppo yesterday killing five children and four other civilians, a

Gunmen killed two people and wounded a third in an attack at the South Korean embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Sunday which

A nine-year-old girl who was taken as a sex slave by ISIS was raped by 10 militants and is now pregnant, it has been reported.

A student died and more than 100 were hurt yesterday in a stampede which followed the explosion of an electricity transformer at a Kenyan university.

Stoking a controversy, the Shiv Sena yesterday demanded that voting rights of Muslims should be revoked as the community has often

Unidentified gunmen fire shots at the South Korean embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli today killing two local security guards, South Korean and Libyan officials say

Recently-declassified Intelligence Bureau (IB) files reveal that the Jawaharlal Nehru government spied on the kin of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose for nearly two decades.

China will create a "blacklist" of its tourists who behave badly overseas, state-media reported, after several embarrassing incidents involving Chinese travelling abroad.