Voting polls opened Tuesday, AFP correspondents said, for unpredictable elections to determine whether Israelis still want incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as leader, or will seek change after six years.

Pakistan hanged 12 male convicts on Tuesday, an interior ministry spokesman said, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was ...

US and Cuban officials met Monday in Havana for new talks on restoring diplomatic ties, but their historic rapprochement was strained by tensions over Venezuela.The top US diplomat for Latin ...

A 20-year-old man was charged on Sunday with first-degree assault in last week's shooting of two policemen during a protest rally in Ferguson, Missouri, a crime that shocked a city ...

China has overtaken Germany to become the world's third-biggest arms exporter, although its 5 per cent of the market remains small compared to the combined 58 per cent of exports ...

Three British teenagers who were planning to join Islamic State militants in Syria were detained in the Turkish city of Istanbul, Turkish officials said on Sunday. The three, who have not ...

The tomb of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been almost completely levelled in fighting near Tikrit.Footage filmed by the Associated Press shows all that remains of the once-lavish mausoleum ...

Moscow was ready to put its nuclear forces on alert to ensure Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine last year, President Vladimir Putin said in a pre-recorded documentary aired on ...

West Bengal governor KN Tripathi on Sunday sought public help to arrest those who gang-raped a 70-year-old nun in Nadia district even as cops have detained eight people and are ...

Iran and the US aim in talks starting on Sunday in Switzerland to begin closing in on a deal reducing Tehran's nuclear activities to within strict limits after 18 months ...

At least 4 people have been killed in an attack on churches in a Christian locality in Lahore on Sunday.According to TV reports, the explosions took place in Youhanabad area ...

Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Saturday they had evidence that Islamic State had used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against their peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq in January.

The US embassy in Saudi Arabia said it had suspended consular services in the kingdom for two days due to "heightened security concerns", after warning of threats against Western oil ...

West Bengal Police have detained five people in connection with the gang-rape of a nun, according to Times Now.Most of those detained have criminal background, the news channel reported quoting ...

The president of Vanuatu has told the BBC most of his people are homeless after the devastating cyclone that hit the Pacific island nation on Friday.Speaking from Japan, Baldwin Londsdale ...

Column number 11 of a security survey pro forma of the Delhi police's secret unit (special branch) has become the bone of contention between the government and the opposition, with ...

 As many as 51 people died on Saturday when a passenger bus drove off a cliff in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, police said.The bus, en route from ...

A Serbian military helicopter carrying a sick baby for treatment in Belgrade crashed near the capital's main airport, the defence ministry said on Saturday.The state broadcaster, Radio-Television Serbia, reported seven ...

A defence lawyer said on Saturday Pakistan has again detained LeT terrorist and Mumbai attack mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi for one month after a court ordered his release.The lawyer Rizwan ...

Pakistan successfully tested a homemade armed drone and a laser-guided missile Friday, the military said, taking it a step closer to acquiring the technology it has long demanded from the ...