A former Chinese regional police chief has been arrested on suspicion of murder, the country's top prosecution agency said yesterday,

Flooding caused by torrential rains in a normally dry region of northern Chile left at least two people dead and 24 missing Wednesday,

Uganda said yesterday it was boosting security over threats by Somalia's Shebab militants, hours after the US embassy in Kampala

Nigeria's military has detained two Al-Jazeera television journalists in the country's northeast, where troops have been battling Boko

Pakistan's government yesterday said it will dispatch a top civil-military delegation to Saudi Arabia following Riyadh's request that it join

The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday appears to want to "destroy the plane"

Collapse in a construction site in central Vietnam, has left 14 dead on spot and 28 other injured.

Relatives and friends of the 150 passengers and crew on Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 are due to go to the crash site high in the French Alps.

The most popular search engine, Google, has outlaid its cover page with green and red portraying the essence of Bangladesh's independence

Saudi Arabia has launched a military operation including air strikes in Yemen against Houthi Shia rebels, say the Saudi Ambassador.

The US soldier who was held by insurgents for five years after disappearing from his post in Afghanistan, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, has

Nigeria's government yesterday denied reports of a mass kidnapping in the country's northeast, as Boko Haram militants flee a four-

Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday Israel wants peace with the Palestinians as he was tasked to form a government a week after

US President Barack Obama insisted Tuesday that his disagreement with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu represents a

French, Spanish and German leaders yesterday visited a makeshift rescue base near the site of the Germanwings air crash, as investigators stepped up their probe into the mysterious disaster that killed 150. French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel flew over the crash site to see the devastation for themselves before meeting rescue workers outside the crisis centre set up on Tuesday after the worst crash in France in four decades.

Italy's top court has put back a ruling on Amanda Knox's murder conviction to Friday, delaying what could be the final act of an eight-

A naval aircraft crashed off the western Indian coast leaving two pilots missing, the navy said yesterday. Rescue operations were

Benjamin Netanyahu will be asked to form Israel's next government later yesterday amid an escalating row with United States. Israel's

Pakistan yesterday hanged six prisoners condemned for murder, officials said, bringing the total executed since the death penalty was

A suicide car bomber killed seven people in Kabul yesterday as the Taliban warned that Washington's decision to slow the withdrawal