SUVA, Fiji: A huge tropical cyclone smashed into Vanuatu in the South Pacific, terrifying residents and leaving "complete devastation" with fears on Saturday that dozens of people may have died. 

A passenger ferry has sunk off the coast of western Myanmar leaving at least 21 people dead and 26 missing, police said Saturday. The ‘Aung Takon’ was carrying more than 200 ...

Swedish prosecutors offered Friday to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London over rape allegations, in a U-turn that could provide a breakthrough in the deadlocked case.

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Friday after being found guilty of terrorism for ordering the arrest of a judge when he was ...

Joint Iraqi forces now have control of Tikrit Military Hospital as they continue their offensive to liberate the city from ISIS.the joint forces raised the Iraqi flag from the hospital ...

An Australian teenage jihadist has died in an Islamic State suicide attack in Iraq overnight, media reports claimed on Thursday.The 18-year-old youth, named Jake Bilardi, had previously made preparations to ...

Seven US Marines and four aircrew were missing and presumed dead Wednesday after their army helicopter crashed during a night training exercise in Florida, military officials said.

The police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, has resigned following a scathing US Justice Department report that found widespread racially biased abuses in the city's police department and municipal court.

Germany's ambassador to India has rebuked a German university professor for what he said was the rejection of an internship application from a male Indian student on grounds of India's ...

The special CBI court hearing the coal block allocation case, Wednesday, summoned former prime minister Manmohan Singh as an accused and asked him to appear before it on April 8.

A special court here on Wednesday summoned former prime minister Manmohan Singh as accused in a coal block allocation case.

Hillary Clinton, under attack for using a personal email address to conduct US State Department business, defended the practice on Tuesday as a matter of ‘convenience,’ but her comments failed ...

A video posted online by Islamic State militants on Tuesday showed a boy fatally shooting Muhammad Musallam, an Israeli Arab accused by the group of having signed up as a ...

Narendra Modi will become the first Indian leader to visit Sri Lanka's war-torn Tamil heartland this week, sending a powerful message on reconciliation to the new government in Colombo.

Two helicopters carrying passengers filming a popular European reality show crashed Monday in a remote area of northwest Argentina, killing eight French citizens and two Argentines, authorities said.

The US Supreme Court declined to hear appeals on Tuesday about the alleged mistreatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees, barring the release of images and preventing a Syrian man from suing ...

A bomb targeting a police station in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula killed a civilian and wounded 24 policemen, security and health officials said.

The United States declared Venezuela a national security threat on Monday and ordered sanctions against seven officials from the oil-rich country in the worst bilateral diplomatic dispute since socialist President ...

 Forty-seven Republican US senators warned Iran's leaders on Monday that any nuclear deal with President Barack Obama could last only as long as he remains in office, an unusual partisan ...

Four bomb blasts killed at least 50 people in Maiduguri in Nigeria's northeast on Saturday in the worst attacks there since Islamist militants tried to seize the city in two ...