President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday signalled that he intended to bring the date of Turkey’s most consequential general election in generations forward by one month to May 14.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that the United States was attempting to “contain” both Russia and China with the help of other countries, but they were alert to its “games”.

Eighteen people including Ukraine's interior minister, other senior ministry officials and three children were killed this morning morning when a helicopter crashed near a nursery outside Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said.

India is expected to overtake China as the world's most populous country this year even though its population growth has been slowing down, United Nations says..Following are some key points about India's demography, according to government data:.- India estimates its population at 1

Ambulance services were called to Sydney airport on Wednesday afternoon to meet an incoming Qantas plane that had issued a mid-air mayday alert.

The world's oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, a spokesman told AFP on Tuesday.

Scientists said Monday they have used a laser beam to guide lightning for he first time, hoping the technique will help protect against deadly bolts -- and one day maybe even trigger them.

Over 9,000 civilians, including 453 children, have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion last February, a senior Ukrainian presidential aide said yesterday.

Al-Shabaab launched a deadly attack on a Somali military base yesterday, just a day after the government claimed a “historic victory” over the jihadists with the capture of a strategic coastal town.

Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned, state media said yesterday, after days of rumours he was about to be sacked as part of a major anti-corruption drive that has seen several ministers fired.

The Saudi government made announcement that the cost of the comprehensive insurance for foreign Umrah performers has been reduced by 63 percent.

Some 40 countries have called on Israel to lift sanctions it imposed on the Palestinian Authority earlier this month over its push to get the UN's top court to issue an advisory opinion on the Israeli occupation.

A new high-tech study has revealed nearly 1,000 ancient Maya settlements, including 417 previously unknown cities linked by what may be the world's first highway network and hidden for millennia by the dense jungles of northern Guatemala and southern Mexico.

Six people including a six-month-old baby cradled in the arms of her 17-year-old mother were shot dead at a home in California's main agricultural valley on Monday in what authorities called a targeted attack and "horrific massacre."

A tiger is on the loose after escaping an exotic farm near Johannesburg in South Africa, attacking a man and several other animals, police and a community leader said yesterday.

The Kremlin said yesterday that tanks Britain plans to send to Ukraine “will burn”, warning the West that supplying a new round of more advanced weapons to Ukraine would not change the outcome of the war.

Italian anti-mafia police caught Sicilian godfather Matteo Messina Denaro yesterday, ending a 30-year manhunt for Italy’s most wanted fugitive.

Companies in the US, Europe and Asia have been helping Myanmar’s military manufacture weapons used in human rights abuses, according to former UN experts.

Japan and India yesterday began their first joint fighter jet exercise near Tokyo as the countries upgrade defence and security ties with an eye on China’s growing military might.

Killings of journalists and media workers surged 50 percent in 2022 to reach 86 worldwide, marking one death every four days, UN cultural body Unesco said yesterday.