An Iranian passenger airliner carrying some 150 passengers skids off the runway and into a street next to the airport in the southern city of Mahshahr, after apparently losing its landing gear in a hard landing.

Teen sensation Billie Eilish wins the first of the top four prizes at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, taking home the song of the year statuette for her hit single "Bad Guy."

The toll from China's viral epidemic spikes to 80 dead with hundreds of new infections despite unprecedented quarantines and travel lockdowns, as foreign governments scrambled to help their trapped citizens.

The Des Moines Register newspaper endorsed Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren in the crowded race for the Democratic Party’s

At least 30 people have been killed in two days of intense storms in southeastern Brazil, the Minas Gerais state Civil Defense office said

An explosive eruption of the Philippines’ restive Taal volcano no longer appears imminent, authorities said yesterday as they lifted most

The United States will not lift sanctions on Iran in order to negotiate, US President Donald Trump tweeted late on Saturday, seemingly in

Suspected extremists yesterday carried out five blasts in three eastern Assam districts morning amid heightened security for Republic

The death toll from a powerful earthquake which struck eastern Turkey rose to 31, officials said yesterday, as rescue efforts continued.

Donald Trump demanded the dismissal of Marie Yovanovitch, the ambassador to Ukraine and a key figure in the president’s impeachment trial, according to a video recording released to US media on Saturday.

The animal-borne SARS virus 17 years ago was supposed to be a wake-up call about consuming wildlife as food, but scientists say

How serious is the coronavirus outbreak? What are its symptoms and how contagious is it? Experts studying the new virus, still have key questions to answer before they can assess its danger.

Divided by hatred but united over the written word, Rohingya Muslim poets in Bangladeshi refugee camps joined Buddhist bards in Myanmar by video link as part of a groundbreaking poetry festival in a country reeling from genocide allegations.

The magnitude 6.8 quake in Turkey left 31 people dead in Elazig province and four in the neighbouring province of Malatya, with more than 1,600 sustaining injuries. The earthquake was followed by more than 700 aftershocks, Disaster and Emergency Authority AFAD says.

Iraqi security forces fired teargas and live bullets in renewed clashes with protesters in Baghdad and other cities, a Reuters witness and security sources say, following a push to clear a sit-in camp in the heart of the capital.

The issue has also blown up on Twitter and hundreds have so far tweeted with the hashtag #BangladeshIsNotUkraine.

Four grenade explosions reportedly rocked parts of two districts in Assam this morning as India is being celebrated the 71st Republic Day, police said.

Canada's first "presumptive" case of a new coronavirus has been detected in a man who returned to Toronto from the Chinese city where the virus first appeared, health officials announce.

Donald Trump demanded the dismissal of Marie Yovanovitch, the ambassador to Ukraine and a key figure in the president's impeachment trial, according to a video recording released to US media.

The death toll from a virus in China has risen to 56 and the number of people infected across the country is nearing 2,000, authorities say. Fifteen more people have died and at least 688 new cases of the coronavirus have now been confirmed.