World

Erbil (Iraq): Iraqi forces have advanced to 5km (3 miles) from Mosul in an offensive against IS' last major Iraq stronghold and there are signs of...

Torkham (Afghanistan): Perched on top of lumbering trucks overflowing with all their possessions, Afghan families are streaming back to their home country...

Mogadishu: Militant group Al Shabaab on Sunday seized control of yet another town in central Somalia after it was abandoned by African Union peacekeepers, a...

Helsinki: The Nordic region’s only euro member is still struggling with austerity. After being stripped of its top AAA credit grade at all three major...

Cairo: Laila El Sayed spent her afternoon searching grocery stores in Cairo’s bustling Dokki district on the banks of the Nile River for one thing:...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed hope on Sunday that fishermen would be able to return to the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South...

New York: Donald Trump rode to the top of the Republican ticket promising a "big, beautiful, powerful" border wall with Mexico to stop the flow of...

Tokyo: A 72 year-old retired soldier blew himself up in a park in the Japanese city of Utsunomiya, killing himself and injuring three other people in an...

Kochi: INS Viraat, the world's oldest aircraft carrier, was accorded a grand send-off from the port city here on Sunday, after over five decades of its...

Madrid: Spain's Socialists on Sunday were expected to clear the way for the conservative People's Party (PP) to be sworn in for a second term,...