According to Israeli military assessment, Israel could suffer hundreds of civilian dead if it fights another war with Hezbollah.

Human rights group Amnesty International says there was an "alarming" increase in death sentences around the world in 2014.

The grandson of billionaire Getty oil founder J. Paul Getty is found dead at his home in Los Angeles, the family said in a statement.

Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman recognized as the world's oldest person died early on Wednesday surrounded by her grandchildren.

China's land reclamation is creating a "great wall of sand" in the South China Sea, leading to "serious questions" on its intentions, says a top US official.

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is to remain in prison after his request for a royal pardon was turned down

A Turkish prosecutor and two gunmen who took him hostage have been killed after a shootout at a courthouse in Istanbul

Former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari has become the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election in Nigeria

An armed leftist group yesterday took hostage a Turkish prosecutor probing the politically sensitive death of an anti-government

Malaysian police have arrested five staff members of a news website after their publication ran an article discussing royal opposition to

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi yesterday declared the "liberation" of Tikrit from the Islamic State group, after a weeks-long operation that

A massive power cut caused chaos across Turkey yesterday, shutting down the metro networks in Istanbul and the capital Ankara, with

Peru's Congress sacked the prime minister, Ana Jara, Monday night over alleged spying against lawmakers, reporters, business leaders

Four death row convicts were hanged yesterday in different jails in Pakistan's Punjab province, a media report said. Pakistan lifted its

Wrapping up six days of marathon nuclear talks with mixed results, Iran and six world powers were yesterday prepared to issue a

Wrapping up six days of marathon nuclear talks with mixed results, Iran and six world powers were yesterday prepared to issue a

Regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran yesterday traded accusations over the escalating conflict in Yemen, which the UN rights chief

Thailand's junta chief yesterday said he would lift martial law but only after replacing it with a new order retaining sweeping powers for

The Indian Supreme Court sought responses from Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani and 19 others on an application moved in

This picture shows how “humanity failed” in Syria. This is the heartbreaking moment a four-year-old Syrian girl 'surrendered' to a photographer when she mistook the man's camera for a gun. Taken at the Atmen refugee camp on Syria's border with Turkey last December, the image shows the young girl frozen in fear with her arms raised and her lips tightly pursed.