A Singapore court has stayed the execution of a Malaysian prisoner for the second time just hours before he was due to be ...

Pope Francis passed another peaceful night in hospital, "got up and had breakfast in his armchair", the Vatican said Thursday ...

Vietnam approved plans on Wednesday for a multi-billion-dollar railway with China, boosting links between the two communist ...

Two rhinos munch serenely on grass as the sun rises over Mount Kenya, oblivious to the massive global endeavour to prevent ...

How do you solve Europe's lagging economic growth and reverse its industrial decline? That is the challenge the EU faces as ...

Donald Trump said Wednesday his administration was "looking at alternatives" to Boeing following delays in delivering two new ...

Donald Trump has not just turned against Volodymyr Zelensky by branding the Ukrainian president a "dictator" -- he has also ...

Hundreds of Chinese workers were heading home on Thursday after being returned from online scam centres in Myanmar, as ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights ...

Eleven-year-old Yeat Saly lies in a hospital bed, a piece of shrapnel lodged in his forehead -- one of the many injuries ...

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Russians "have the cards" in any negotiation to end the war in Ukraine, ...

From office lights switched off to out-of-service lifts, Indonesian civil servants are feeling the pinch after President ...