Saudi Arabia plans to allow the sale of alcohol to non-Muslim diplomats for the first time, two sources familiar with the plan told AFP today

A fire in the basement of a street shop in Xinyu City of Jiangxi Province has killed 39 people and injured nine, Chinese state media and the local government said today, adding that some people were still trapped

Russia accused Ukraine today of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange

74 including 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war were on board, says Russia's defence ministry

Russia said Wednesday that an IL-76 military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war had crashed in the western Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine

More than 6,300 people fell prey to "fake friend" scams in Singapore last year and collectively lost an equivalent of nearly $16 million, according to police

Six people died when a small commuter plane carrying workers to a Rio Tinto mine in Canada's icy far north crashed Tuesday shortly after taking off

North Korea fired several cruise missiles towards the Yellow Sea on Wednesday, Seoul's military said, the latest in a series of tension-raising moves by the nuclear-armed state

Donald Trump won the key New Hampshire primary Tuesday, moving him ever closer to locking in the Republican presidential nomination and securing an extraordinary White House rematch with Joe Biden

Instead, Trump will become the first Republican to sweep competitive votes in both Iowa - where he won by a record-setting margin eight days ago - and New Hampshire since 1976, when the two states cemented their status as the first nominating contests.

US and British forces carried out a fresh round of strikes in Yemen early yesterday, targeting a Houthi underground storage site as well as missile and surveillance capabilities used by the Iran-aligned group against Red Sea shipping, the Pentagon said.

“Oppenheimer” -- Christopher Nolan’s masterly portrait of the father of the atomic bomb -- topped the Oscars nominations yesterday, earning an impressive 13 nods including for best picture.

Twenty-four Israeli soldiers were killed in Israel’s worst day of losses in Gaza, the military said yesterday, as it claimed to have encircled southern Gaza’s main city in a major ground assault.

A wave of Russian missiles hit Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities yesterday, killing seven people and wounding dozens, setting ablaze and toppling apartment blocks and creating new panic among exhausted residents.

Canada will temporarily cap new international student permits by one-third this year compared to 2023, the country’s immigration minister announced Monday.

Israel has proposed to Hamas via Qatari and Egyptian mediators a pause in fighting of up to two months as part of a deal to free all the hostages being held in Gaza, the US news site Axios reported Monday.

Donald Trump aims to steamroll his way toward the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday in the New Hampshire primary, making short work of his only surviving opponent, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley.

The food situation in the Gaza Strip is slipping deeper into catastrophe, with the risk of famine rising by the day, the UN’s World Food Programme warned yesterday.

A record number of people sought asylum in France last year, a rise of more than eight percent on the previous year, the county’s refugee protection authority said yesterday.

The World Food Programme said today that very little food aid had made it beyond southern Gaza since the start of the conflict with Israel, and pockets of the Palestinian enclave remained at risk of famine