An intruder stabbed and wounded five people at a rabbi’s house in New York during a gathering to celebrate the Jewish festival of Hanukkah late Saturday, officials and media reports said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has convened a key meeting of top ruling party officials, state media said yesterday, ahead of a year-end deadline for Washington to shift its stance on stalled nuclear talks.

January 3: China successfully lands robotic lander Chang’e 4 on the far side of the Moon.

“The Year of Protests” may be the best summary for 2019. Hong Kong gained the most attention. The trigger was an extradition bill that critics said violated the one country, two systems pledge that governs the city’s relations with mainland China. Rather than fade,

US author Toni Morrison, the first black woman to be presented the Nobel Prize in Literature, died at the age of 88.

The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an ax to kill four family members including his infant daughter. Five months later, 12 people were killed in a workplace shooting in Virginia. Twenty-two more died at a Walmart in El Paso in August.

Nearly 2,000 people took refuge in emergency shelters and one man was missing after being swept away in floodwaters as Tropical Cyclone Sarai pounded Fiji yesterday causing widespread damage.

Officials in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, including its hardline chief minister, have made controversial remarks while rejecting accusations that police are using “deadly force” against mostly Muslim protesters.

Mumbai-based copywriter Sarah Syed says she was long alarmed by the Hindu nationalist direction of India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi but felt powerless to stop it -- until now. Like many others taking part in the current wave of protests, the final straw was Modi’s new citizenship law and then the images of students being tear-gassed when they demonstrated against it.

The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, alarming rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom.

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday adopted a $3.07 billion operating budget which for the first time includes funding for the investigation of war crimes in Syria and Myanmar.

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday approved a resolution extending the investigation into the mysterious 1961 death of

A Navy SEAL platoon leader controversially pardoned of war crimes by US President Donald Trump was described as “toxic” and “freaking evil” by veterans who served with him in Iraq,

Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country have agreed to swap dozens of prisoners yesterday, the self-declared rebel republic of Donetsk said.

New rocket attacks in Iraq have killed a US civilian contractor, raising fears that violence could escalate in the protest-hit country already engulfed in its worst political crisis in decades.

Thousands of protesters clashed with police Friday in Santiago in a fresh round of anti-government demonstrations that erupted more

The UN General Assembly approves a resolution strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention.

More than 235,000 people have fled the Idlib region over the past two weeks, the UN said yesterday, amid heightened regime and Russian attacks on Syria’s last major opposition bastion.

Russia’s defence minister yesterday told President Vladimir Putin the first Avangard hypersonic missiles had been put into service, in a move hailed as a major coup for Moscow.

Iran, China and Russia started four days of joint naval drills in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman yesterday, the commander of Iran’s flotilla announced.