George Clooney's father-in-law has revealed that his daughter's wedding to the actor is not only a "very good news" his family but also for the Middle East. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ramzi Alamuddin, father of Amal Alamuddin, said that the ...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has secured a temporary peace in the troubled east which he says gives him a chance to move Ukraine towards its dream of a place in Europe - but Russia's Vladimir Putin still holds cards that could thwart him.

A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced to life in prison the country's most prominent advocate for the rights of Muslim Uighur people, his lawyer said, the latest sign of Beijing's determination to suppress dissent. Economics professor Ilham Tohti stood trial on ...

Thousands of Russians marched in protest against the armed conflict in Ukraine on Sunday in the first major anti-war rally since the start of the standoff between Kiev and pro-Russian rebels. The armed conflict, which Kiev and the West blame on Russia's ...

Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide on Friday after he was aquitted of murder charges a day before. On February 14, 2013, Pistorius shot and killed Steenkamp (29) in the bathroom of Pretoria home. He claimed he believed that an intruder ...

The first batch of North Korean officials and athletes taking part in the upcoming Asian Games touched down at Incheon airport on Thursday to be welcomed by a small group of unification activists amid a heavy security presence. The reclusive North is ...

Boko Haram militants have driven more than 26,000 people from the northeastern town of Bama amid fierce fighting, witnesses and security sources said on Wednesday, as the Islamists focus more on taking and holding territory. The government of Borno ...

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday unveiled what it said was the first smartwatch capable of making and receiving calls without a mobile phone nearby, in the South Korean firm's latest effort to find a new growth driver. The world's biggest smartphone ...

United States President Barack Obama has reportedly authorized the use of drones for surveillance in Syria despite President Bashar al-Assad demanding that the US seek permission before launching any air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ...

A strong, magnitude 6.6 quake hit central Chile on Saturday, shaking buildings and prompting power outages in the capital, Santiago, but not causing any major damage. The epicenter was 31 miles (50 km) north-northeast of the port city of Valparaiso, the ...

US forces attempted to rescue journalist James Foley and other American hostages during a secret mission into Syria and exchanged gunfire with Islamic State militants only to discover the captives were not there, officials said on Wednesday. The mission ...

A report has revealed that three Ebola-infected doctors who were given doses of the experimental drug last Thursday have shown remarkable signs of improvement. The drug, ZMapp was earlier given to two United States (US) Aid workers infected with the ...

The Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIL/ISIS, has denounced what it calls the Kurdish-Crusader alliance in an English language version of their statement on the recent conflicts with Iraqi security forces and soldiers of the Kurdish peshmerga. A post on ...

India's abject surrender Test after Test in England to go down 1-3 after leading 1-0 have disappointed former captains. While champion left-arm spinner Bishan Singh Bedi was left fuming, legendary middle-order batsman Gundappa Viswanath was ...

A United States mission to evacuate Iraqi civilians trapped on a mountain by Sunni militant fighters is far less likely after a US assessment team sent there on Wednesday found the humanitarian situation not as grave as expected, the Pentagon said. A team of ...

In a throwback to the Cold War years, the US and Russia are shadow-boxing over Ukraine. Moscow had won the first round with the holding of the referendum and the annexation of Crimea. The unfortunate downing of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, with ...

In a throwback to the Cold War years, the US and Russia are shadow-boxing over Ukraine. Moscow had won the first round with the holding of the referendum and the annexation of Crimea. The unfortunate downing of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, with ...

Exhausted and terrorised, many of the Yazidis of northern Iraq who straggled into this Kurdish town after escaping the Islamic State deathtrap of Mount Sinjar recalled the agony of leaving relatives exposed on the mountain. Dakheel, 64, a shepherd who fled ...

A series of US airstrikes since last week has slowed the operational tempo of the Islamic State, the militant group that has seized large parts of northern Iraq, but is unlikely to substantially weaken the group, the Pentagon said on Monday. "We assess that US ...

Any bid by Russia to deliver humanitarian aid into Ukraine would be viewed as an invasion, the United States said on Friday, warning that Moscow voiced similar concerns for civilians before its brief 2008 war with Georgia. Russia has offered to send a convoy ...