Melbourne has once again been named the best city in the world to live, according to the latest Economist Intelligence…
The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday assured full transparency during the ongoing visit of the UN High Commissioner for Human…
The Israeli military is on high alert amid possibilities of a US strike on Syria, which may result in a…
The teenaged son of a renowned Chinese tenor, who was allegedly involved in a gang-rape case, stood trial in a…
Britain will submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council seeking to authorise "necessary measures" to protect civilians in…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called for a diplomatic solution to the Syrian conflict.
Pakistan's supreme court on Wednesday dropped a contempt charge against former cricketer and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan.
China will work to ensure quality and steady economic growth in the second half of 2013 by boosting demand, industrial…
At least 36 Taliban militants were killed and 10 wounded during operations in different Afghan provinces within a day
At least 32 people were killed and 152 injured in a series of bomb attacks in the Iraq's capital Baghdad…
Two Nobel laureates - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi - will…
Last month, 6,300 additional jobseekers entered the domestic job market, taking the number of jobless to 3.28 million in the…
Three men in China have been sentenced to death for drug trafficking
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday visited parts of Sri Lanka's northern region which has been…
The Arab League on Tuesday said that it held the Syrian administration "fully responsible" for the deadly chemical attack in…
At least 12 people, including nine suspected militants, were killed in various incidents of violence in Iraq on Tuesday
India on Tuesday summoned the Iranian ambassador over the continued detention of its oil tanker MT Desh Shanti, carrying 140,000…
Seventeen Taliban militants, including a key commander, laid down their arms and joined the government-backed peace process in Afghanistan's Laghman…
