The South China Sea is one of the most hotly-contested and lucrative regions in the world.In July, an international tribunal in The Hague ruled in a l...
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, has a nine-point lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump, according to a latest poll which c...
Talks between foreign ministers from the United States, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iraq came to a close Saturday evening without any of the delegations suggesting tha...
In Syria, a new aerial bombardment flattened residential buildings in a rebel-controlled village in the northern province of Aleppo, killing at least ...
In Yemen, a 72-hour truce in conflict ravaged Yemen is set to begin on Thursday, the UN special envoy has announced. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he ...
Vice President Hamid Ansari has reached Algiers in the second and final leg of two nation visit. After his arrival at the capital city of Algeria last...
A powerful earthquake measuring 6.9 magnitude struck off the coast of New Britain island in Papua New Guinea on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey (US...
The 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was fatally shot in the neck, authorities and the athlete's agent said and police have arrested...
China today successfully launched a spacecraft carrying two astronauts, in its longest-ever manned space mission, who would later join its experimenta...
In Iraq, a military operation to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State terror group has begun, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says. Mr ...
In Vietnam, at least 15 people have died after torrential rains caused severe flooding across four central provinces and displaced thousands of people...
The PeninsulaDOHA: Qatar Airways has once again been chosen as the Middle East Airline of the Year by international business travellers. The acco...
China has developed a nuclear power plant so small it can fit inside a shipping container - to help Beijing's efforts to take control of disputed isla...
China will launch a two-man space mission, Shenzhou 11, on Monday, the state-owned Xinhua news agency said, taking the country closer to its ambition ...
AL KHARJ, Saudi Arabia: This is what it takes to run a megadairy in the scorching desert here: 180,000 Holstein cows, precisely cooled cowsheds, water...
WELCOME to the jungle. No ordinary jungle.Here, the elements conspire against you. The climate is hot and the air is thick and heavy, making breathing...
A US Marine Corps Harrier jump-jet has dived into the sea shortly after taking off from a base on the island of Okinawa, south of Japan. Japanese coas...
MOGADISHU - Clashes between two semi-autonomous regions of Somalia this week have killed at least 11 people and displaced around 50,000, the United Na...
Iraqi police and hospital officials say the death toll from a suicide bombing at a funeral gathering in northern Baghdad increased to 31, with another 65 people wounded.Iraqi police and hospital offic...
When a U.S. vessel off the coast of Yemen fired on Houthi rebels Thursday, it sent another of the Obama administration’s delicate balancing acts in th...
There are a dizzying two trillion galaxies in the Universe, up to twenty times more than previously thought, astronomers reported Thursday.The surpris...
Donald Trump's fragile campaign has been hit by fresh allegations of inappropriate behaviour with two more women alleging that he made unwanted sexual...
The US has told Pakistan to go after those terrorists who seek and "sometimes find safe haven" in the country and delegitimise all terror groups opera...
The US Department of Transportation has banned Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones on flights after reports of the device catching fire. Transportation Sec...
In Libya, at least 14 pro-government fighters were killed and 30 others injured in clashes with the Islamic State terror group in Sirte. Medical off...
Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN's cultural agency, UNESCO, accusing it of denying Judaism's connections to the religion's holiest sites. ...
Dec. 5, 1927 Born in U.S. at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1932 Bloodless revolution ends absolute monarchy in Siam, us...
While he was inside a cage in the ocean, a great white shark forced its way in. It's tough to watch, but it's all on cameras.The shark didn't intend t...
Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) on Friday said it has concluded a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Public Investment Fund of ...
Singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, one of the world’s most influential musicians, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for “having crea...
Which political party will win the Jharkhand Assembly elections 2024?