The United States admitted on Thursday that the Islamic State is the most dangerous group it has faced in recent years, and warned that the Middle East faces a long-term battle to defeat it. Pentagon chiefs said the jihadist group could be eradicated if local ...

The New Zealand dollar is heading for a 0.9 per cent weekly decline as investors prepare for the central bankers' symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen will deliver a speech. The kiwi fell to 84.09 US cents at 5pm in ...

Japan Self-Defence Force soldiers search for survivors in the rain at a site where a landslide swept through a residential area at Asaminami ward in Hiroshima, western Japan. Photograph: Toru Hanai/Reuters. Topics: News · World · Asia-Pacific · Shinzo Abe ...

Widow of the late Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, the man who brought the deadly Ebola disease to Nigeria, Mrs. Decontee Sawyer, yesterday said that she shared the pains of the family of Dr Ameyo Stella Adedavoh, the female doctor who attended to Sawyer.

Wars inevitably spark change. That is no truer than in the war in Gaza no matter what Hamas and Israel say. The signs of changing attitudes of Israel and Hamas towards one another go significantly beyond the fact that the two sworn enemies who refuse to ...

Geneva - Efforts to curb the deadly Ebola epidemic that swept across four West African states are being undermined by a lack of leadership and emergency management skills, the international head of Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday.

Thailand coup leader, Army Chief Prayuth Chan-ocha was elected as the Prime Minister of Thailand on 21 August 2014. His election to the post of 29th Prime Minister of Thailand was backed by 191 members of the 197-strong junta-picked National ...

One of the girls' fathers points to the tree where the girls were found hanged. Picture: AFP Photo/Chandan Khanna. Ritu Sarin for Financial Express; India; August 22, 2014. Facebook. Tweet; Print; Mail · Share. A crucial forensic analysis report in the alleged ...

Washington: Journalist James Foley's jihadist captors sent his family a taunting and rambling email threatening to kill him, just a week before making public a video of his execution, the American reporter's employer said Thursday. GlobalPost said it released ...

English football was preparing to welcome back one of its most controversial characters on Friday amid reports Liverpool had made an audacious move to sign Mario Balotelli. Speculation over Balotelli's future intensified Thursday after AC Milan ...

First UNHCR aid flight from Dubai reaches Erbil; another large shipment ready to go by sea. 'Make aid to Iraq top priority'. This is an order from the highest officials at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The aid operation started on ...

First UNHCR aid flight from Dubai reaches Erbil; another large shipment ready to go by sea. 'Make aid to Iraq top priority'. This is an order from the highest officials at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The aid operation started on ...

MONROVIA (Reuters) - African countries tightened travel curbs on Thursday in an effort to contain the Ebola outbreak, ignoring World Health Organization warnings that such measures could heighten shortages of food and basic supplies in affected areas.

WASHINGTON - The United States offered a total $30 million in return for information on key leaders of the feared Haqqani militant network, blamed for numerous bloody attacks in Afghanistan. “The Department has authorised rewards of up to $5 million each ...

Zhou Hongyi, founder of anti-virus software company Qihoo 360, takes part in the "Ice Bucket Challenge" in Beijing on Monday. Print. Many celebrities in China are waiting anxiously to be named, presumably by better-known stars, to take part in the Ice Bucket ...

Zhou Hongyi, founder of anti-virus software company Qihoo 360, takes part in the "Ice Bucket Challenge" in Beijing on Monday. Print. Many celebrities in China are waiting anxiously to be named, presumably by better-known stars, to take part in the Ice Bucket ...

When ISIS beheaded an American journalist, it meant to intimidate -- and provoke -- the United States. It should be careful what it wishes for. The gloves just came off. The Obama administration signaled Thursday that the United States has begun a new war ...

The events in Ferguson, Missouri, have launched a familiar spectacle: the race to be wrong first. Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American man, was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The Washington Post had more on the story about what ...

Liverpool are reportedly on the brink of signing Mario Balotelli for £16million, a deal that would go down as one of the biggest and perhaps most surprising of the summer. AC Milan accepted a bid for the Italian international striker on Thursday, and a deal ...

WASHINGTON: Bank of America agreed on Thursday to a record nearly $17 billion deal with US authorities to settle claims it sold risky mortgage securities as safe investments ahead of the 2008 financial crisis. Under the settlement with the department of ...