Heavy rain was raising hopes yesterday for an end to Australia’s unprecedented bushfire crisis, as downpours douse blazes that have

Ehsanullah Ehsan, the Taliban terrorist responsible for shooting Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai in 2012 and carrying out the

Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac delivered a budget speech with sharp political overtones in the state assembly yesterday, declaring

Millions of migrants and tribal people in India’s northeastern Assam state could be denied land because of a new definition of the term “indigenous”, land and human rights experts said.

Donald Trump’s son-in-law and architect of the new US peace plan for the Middle East, Jared Kushner, has called on the UN Security Council to break its “habits” and solve the “hardest problem in the world”, in a rare interview.

Indian authorities have extended the detention of two former Kashmir chief ministers, held for the past six months under a security clampdown, using a law allowing for them to be locked up for two years without charge, police said yesterday.

Ehsanullah Ehsan, the Taliban terrorist responsible for shooting Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai in 2012 and carrying out the deadly Peshawar Army school terror attack in 2014, which killed 132 students, has escaped from prison, according to an audio clip released by him.

Shamima Begum, who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS), loses the first stage of an appeal against the decision to revoke her British citizenship, reports Yahoo News UK.

President Donald Trump confirms that the US had killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- days after the jihadist group claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at a US naval base.

US President Donald Trump expresses his "confidence" in China's ability to tackle the novel coronavirus epidemic during talks with his Beijing counterpart Xi Jinping, the White House said.

The death of a whistleblowing doctor whose early warnings about China's new coronavirus outbreak were suppressed by the police unleashes a wave of anger at the government's handling of the crisis -- and bold demands for more freedom.

The US Senate on Wednesday acquitted President Donald Trump on impeachment charges of abusing his office and obstructing Congress, despite Republican Mitt Romney becoming the first senator in history to vote for the conviction of a president from his own party. Here are some quotes from a historic day at the US Capitol:

Donald Trump was acquitted of high crimes in his impeachment trial Wednesday -- but could the unpredictable president now decide he’s above the law?

Maldives police yesterday arrested three men over the stabbing of two Chinese nationals and an Australian. A Maldivian radical group

Turkey will investigate two pilots for possible negligence after their plane skidded off an Istanbul runway killing three passengers, state

Two rail workers were killed and about 30 people injured yesterday when a high-speed train derailed before dawn near Milan in northern

Iraqi anti-government protesters yesterday vowed to push on with their wave off rallies as they buried seven fellow activists killed

One of Africa’s last remaining giant “tusker” elephants has died in Kenya aged 50, the country’s wildlife service (KWS) has said. Big Tim

Nasa’s Christina Koch returned to Earth safely yesterday after shattering the spaceflight record for female astronauts with a stay of

A car-ramming targeting Israeli troops in Jerusalem wounded 14 people early yesterday as an uptick of violence hit the Palestinian territories following Washington’s controversial Middle East peace plan.