Japan hosted African leaders on Wednesday for a three-day development conference, offering itself as an alternative to China ...

Israel's defence minister has approved a plan for the conquest of Gaza City and authorised the call-up of around 60,000 ...

Fluminense goalkeeper Fabio on Tuesday claimed the record for most competitive appearances in men's football when the ...

More than 20 people have died on Wednesday in a torrential spell of monsoon rain in Pakistan, where downpours have swept away ...

Spain is battling a wave of wildfires that have claimed four lives this summer. In the north-west, in regions renowned for ...

A military court sentenced a New Zealand soldier on Wednesday to two years' detention for attempting to spy for a foreign ...

Senator Rodrigo Paz, the surprise top finisher in Bolivia's first-round presidential election, spent years traveling the ...

It is the highest-grossing movie of the year, and the biggest animated film ever made -- but if you live outside China, ...

A member of Irish rap band Kneecap was due to appear in court on Wednesday charged with a terror offence for allegedly ...

Non-fossil fuels now account for half of India's installed energy capacity -- years ahead of schedule -- but the ...

Volunteer Dutch divers are still fishing debris from the North Sea six years after a disastrous shipping accident.

Grinding charcoal with a few drops of goat's milk, 60-year-old Basran Jogi peers at the faces of two small Pakistani sisters ...