SEOUL: North Korea fired three short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast Thursday, just as Pope Francis arrived…
MELBOURNE: An Australian hospital apologised "unreservedly" Thursday after sending out notices to the doctors of more than 200 patients telling…
A new ceasefire in Gaza will last five days, said senior Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmed on Wednesday, after he and…
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Cairo will readdress the issue of a ceasefire and Israel´s Gaza blockade today as the clock ticks down to…
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, the mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize. The…
Bangladesh said earlier today that it has arrested the owner of a heavily overloaded river boat that sank last week.…
A shallow 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck the Ecuadoran capital Quito yesterday triggering landslides that killed at least two people and violently…
US Secretary of State John Kerry today exhorted the Iraqi prime minister-designate Haidar al-Abadi to "quickly to form an inclusive…
Narendra Modi travelled today, to the disputed area of Kashmir, where he will become the first Indian prime minister in…
