About a quarter of the population of a northern Kazakhstan village has sporadically and suddenly falling into a deep sleep, and no one can explain why

India names Vikas Swarup, whose novel turned into multiple Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”, as the new spokesman of the country’s Foreign Ministry

Authorities and Taliban spokeman say that the Pakistani Taliban killed five police officers in a rocket attack in country's southwest on Friday. In another incident of a Taliban attack, on a police bus in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi left 10 people wounded.

North Korea says it has arrested two South Korean men who it accused of spying for Seoul

At least 19 people are injured after an explosion caused two residential apartment buildings to collapse and engulf in flames in New York City's East Village neighborhood

The long-running conflict with Israel claimed the lives of more Palestinian civilians in 2014 than any year since 1967, the United

Iran's president yesterday appealed to global leaders including Barack Obama as negotiators raced against the clock to agree the outlines

US Secretary of State John Kerry branded Bashar al-Assad "a brutal dictator" Wednesday, a week after suggesting that it would be

Pakistan is examining a request from Saudi Arabia to join a coalition to defend Yemen's president against advancing rebels threatening

Russia's Zvezda television, a channel run by the defence ministry, unexpectedly revealed yesterday that it has offered a job to disgraced

Iraqi forces buoyed by the first US-led coalition air strikes on Tikrit made a final push yesterday to flush diehard jihadists out of Saddam Hussein's hometown.

The co-pilot of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps has been named by French authorities as German national Andreas Lubitz.

President Xi Jinping worked to mend relations with Sri Lanka yesterday as Chinese state-run media warned the island nation's new

Britain's top court yesterday overruled the government to allow the publication of a series of letters from Prince Charles to ministries, in a

Nigeria's two main presidential candidates have signed an agreement to prevent violence in tightly contested elections due tomorrow.

In a damning report released yesterday, Amnesty International said Palestinian rocket fire during the 2014 summer war in Gaza had

Proposals to allow Myanmar students to form unions for the first time in decades passed their first parliamentary hurdle yesterday in

Four people were killed and 20 injured when a passenger bus hit a landmine near a government-controlled town in eastern Ukraine, local officials said yesterday.

Tunisia said yesterday that it had arrested 23 suspects in connection with last week's jihadist massacre at the country's national museum.

Indian police have arrested a suspect in connection with the rape of an elderly nun, a senior officer said yesterday, their first