Syria's Western-backed opposition, the National Coalition, elected Hadi al-Bahra, chief negotiator at the Geneva p…

A cargo train used by Mexicans and Central Americans to travel toward the U.S. border derailed in the southern Mexican…

China's top prosecutor has ordered greater transparency in publicising corruption cases involving senior officials…

Japan on Thursday denied as "sheer misreporting" a front page newspaper story that North Korea had provided …

The Pakistani military has seized control of 80 percent of Miranshah, the capital of the remote tribal region of North…

China has dismissed as meaningless a proposed referendum on democracy in its southern gambling hub of Macau, a poll th…

Miro Cerar may be a newcomer to politics, but he is already a household name to the 2 million people of Slovenia, the …

Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 27 wounded in clashes with pro-Russian separatist rebels in the east of …

China and the United States have agreed to enhance cooperation on counter-terrorism and military-to-military relations…

Britain said on Thursday it would rush through emergency legislation to force telecoms firms to retain customer data f…

Iraqi security forces found 53 corpses, blindfolded and handcuffed, south of Baghdad on Wednesday as Shi'ite and K…

Significant differences remain between six world powers and Iran in negotiations over its nuclear program, an Austrian…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive to a sceptical audience in Afghanistan this week to try to resolve a de…

Apartheid death-squad leader Eugene de Kock, dubbed 'Prime Evil' for his role in the torture and murder of bla…

A Tamil group criticised Australia's immigration minister on Thursday for visiting northern Sri Lanka without meet…

Missiles from a U.S. drone slammed into a mud house and killed six suspected militants in Pakistan's rugged northw…

Complaining they had worked without pay for months late last year, employees of the Serbian farming company Agroziv st…

Germany cannot insist the spouses of Turkish nationals living in the country speak basic German when they apply for a …

The U.N. atomic agency said on Thursday it believed nuclear material which Iraq said had fallen into the hands of insu…

The Taliban shot and killed six people working for a demining company in western Afghanistan, police said on Thursday,…

Indonesia's likely next president, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, warned on Thursday against tampering with ballo…

U.S. and Chinese leaders have agreed that China will reduce its intervention in the currency market when conditions ar…

Utah's attorney general will appeal directly to the U.S. Supreme Court over last month's ruling by a federal a…

Police shot and killed a woman brandishing a knife outside a regional medical center in northern Idaho that had been l…

Kush the cat was quarantined in central Florida after her owner called 911 over the weekend for help, saying the feroc…

U.S. prosecutors are using a new tactic to crack down on banks that fail to fight money laundering: systematically ask…

Police in a Dallas suburb shot a suspected burglar after he poured a flammable material on his clothing and set himsel…