The United States and Iran said Monday they had made progress in the latest round of talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, but warned there was still a long way to go to seal a final deal.

An Egyptian court acquitted a former prime minister and an ex-interior minister of corruption charges in a retrial yesterday,

Eight people have been killed in a shooting in the eastern Czech Republic town of Uhersky Brod

There is an outrage in India over a Hindu leader's comment that Mother Teresa's charity work has one objective - to convert the poor to Christianity.

The head of the United Nations Climate Change Panel (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, steps down amid sexual harassment allegations.

Pro-Russian forces massing near Ukraine's port city of Mariupol are continuing to attack government troop positions, Kiev said yesterday, fuelling concerns for the fate of an internationally brokered ceasefire.

Accusing the Modi government of antipathy towards farmers, Social activist Anna Hazare yesterday launched a two-day agitation against the controversial land acquisition ordinance here,

Washington and Tehran's top diplomats sat down again yesterday for talks on Iran's nuclear programme as they struggled to narrow gaps ahead of a key deadline.

As threats in the Middle East grow, there's a pressing need in the region, Egypt's President said Sunday.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has gone on a sabbatical “for a few weeks” to reflect upon recent events and the future of the party that was completely wiped out in the Delhi Assembly elections capping a string of losses.

It's not unusual for men to join the fight for women's rights. But it is if they choose to wear miniskirts while they do it.

Six days ago, the trio of British girls ran away from home and flew from London to Istanbul. It's unclear where 15-year-olds Amira Abase, Shamima Begum and 16-year-old Kadiza Sultana are.

Liberia reopened its land border crossings shut down during the Ebola outbreak, a positive sign in a nation that was the epicenter of the deadly virus.

An international health mission said yesterday more measures are needed to combat the spread of MERS in Saudi Arabia,

A tribunal in Dhaka exonerates 14 dignitaries of contempt proceedings after they apologised for their statements on the Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman’s punishment

A bomb killed two people during a pro-government march in the east Ukraine city of Kharkiv on Sunday, officials said, as Kiev's army and rebels wrangled over a truce requiring them to pull back heavy weapons.

Police in the Maldives yesterday arrested former president Mohamed Nasheed under an anti-terror law for the alleged illegal detention of a judge when he was in power more than three years ago.

A top United Nations climate change official has pulled out of a key meeting in Kenya next week as Indian police investigate a sexual harassment complaint against him, officials have said.

Yemen's president sought to resume his duties as head of state yetserday, holding his first public engagement with state officials since he fled house arrest in Sanaa by the Houthi group that dominates the northern half of the country.

The families of three British schoolgirls feared to be travelling to join the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria issued emotional appeals for them to come home Saturday.