The US is likely to respond positively to India's request for 22 unarmed high-tech multi-mission Predator Guardian drones for

People forced from their homes by religious violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state gathered yesterday to meet former

Almost 50 million children throughout the world are "uprooted," forcibly displaced from their home countries by

Kim Jong-Un labelled North Korea's latest missile tests "perfect", state media said yesterday, as he called for the

From the moment Barack Obama touched down in China, his last G20 summit seemed likely to be a tricky one.

The race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the White House has tightened with two months to go before Election

President Barack Obama yesterday pledged to dramatically increase US efforts to clear millions of bombs secretly

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a longer-than-expected discussion yesterday

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stepped up his bid to win over minority voters by addressing a largely black

Syrian government troops renewed the siege of rebel-held parts of Aleppo yesterday, as Washington and Moscow failed to reach a deal on stemming violence in the country's devastating war.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's party braced for a backlash at state polls yesterday, while anti-migrant populists are poised

The United States is committed to bringing the perpetrators of the attempted coup against Turkish President Recep

President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday pleaded for more time to bring about reconciliation and ensure

The world edged closer to a 2020 goal to repair vast areas of damaged natural lands and forests, officials announced

A tearful Nick Kyrgios, a dark horse to win the US Open, retires from his third-round match against Ukraine's Illya Marchenko with a hip injury.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pulls into an effective tie with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton has never been so disliked by Americans. That's according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll published Wednesday, a little more than two months before she faces voters at the ballot box.

The first scheduled commercial passenger flight from the United States to Cuba in more than half a century landed yesterday,

Cuba and the United States took the latest step in their efforts to boost ties yesterday when the first regular commercial flight

Huma Abedin, one of US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's top aides, yesterday said she was separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, after a sex scandal similar to an earlier incident that led him to resign from the US Congress.