Japan increases defense activity in East China Sea.

Ten of thousands of students and supporters took to London streets to protest against plans to increase tuition ...

A month after the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, the UN reported Wednesday the spread of the disease ...

Serbian President Boris Tadic apologised Thursday for crimes committed in the 1990's against Croatian citizens.

Eunice Sanborn of Jacksonville, Texas, became the world's oldest person Thursday, following the death of Eugenie Blanchard, who ...

Heavy rainfall in Thailand and northern Malaysia have forced thousands to evacuate and killed at least 117 people.

A draft of an EC report is based on the premise that all the pollution that transportation causes ...

A United Nations official says the Middle East is at “an extremely critical juncture.”

Africa's Ivory Coast will at last choose their president, five years later than intended, on Oct. 31.

Nigeria's Customs Service intercepted a large amount of heavy weapons on Tuesday.

Tropical cyclone Giri caused more damage than predicted when it hit western Burma as a category 5 storm ...

Temperatures in the Arctic are continuing to rise to record highs, and the region is fast losing ice ...

The number of asylum seekers hoping to find refuge in Western European countries from Western Balkan states has ...

Google Street View has followed Germany's punctual culture by allowing people to remove or blur their homes from ...

In Karachi, 11 more people were killed in separate incidents on the fifth straight day of violence.

EP decided Wednesday to extend the minimum maternity leave with full pay in the European Union.

The government has taken action to make sure daily life is not hampered beyond limits.

UK has fourth-largest military budget in the world, but has cut it by 8 percent, or 7.4 billion ...

Former Dutch politician survives attempted bombing in Iraq.

The Conference of Parties to the U.N. Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) started in Nagoya, Japan.

The book "Conversation with Myself" gives an insight into the emotions and experiences of Nelson Mandela.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave speeches in southern Lebanon on Thursday.

The U.N. Security Council asked governments to increase their efforts to reach the mission goal of ISAF.

A Hungarian judge ruled Wednesday that Zoltan Bakonyi will not be charged with negligence since.

A cargo plane carrying supplies for NATO operations crashed in the mountains near Afghan capital Kabul on October ...

Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir over the weekend warned of the possibility of civil war.

France's Constitutional Council approved on Thursday the law banning full-face veils in public.