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China said Wednesday it would move to transform all state-owned companies into corporations by the end of this year, as...

Gunmen believed to be Boko Haram Islamists have kidnapped 10 members of an oil exploration team in northeast Nigeria, colleagues...

Ten Chinese Super League clubs say they have paid off debts related to player wages, bonuses and transfers after 13...

Civilians fleeing the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion of Raqa are paying smugglers to lead them out of the city...

Clashes erupted overnight in a rebel-held enclave outside Damascus, which was also hit by government air strikes despite a truce...

To the strains of upbeat jazz and with a vegetable cake laid on as a special treat, Canola the Singaporean...

A Malaysian lawmaker came under fire Wednesday for saying that women who deny their husbands sex were subjecting them to...

President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Iran would respond in kind to any breach by the United States of...

Qatar said on Wednesday that a new blacklist released by Saudi Arabia and its allies came as a "disappointing surprise"...

At least 26 Afghan soldiers have been killed and 13 wounded in a Taliban attack on a military base in...

The European Union's top court on Wednesday upheld the bloc's decision to put Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on its terrorism...

Asia's football governing body has dealt a major boost to the Indian Super League by ruling that its franchise-based teams...

Iran's top nuclear negotiator said on Wednesday that new sanctions approved by the US House of Representatives were "a hostile...

Opener Shikhar Dhawan hit an unbeaten 64 to give India a steady start on the first day of the opening...

Chinese Olympic diving champion He Zi has reluctantly retired aged 26 citing a nagging foot injury and her joy at...

The US state of Ohio planned to execute its first prisoner in more than three years Wednesday, putting to death...

A woman has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of destroying 54 violins and 70 bows worth around $950,000 that...

Sri Lanka deployed troops and police to distribute fuel Wednesday as striking petroleum workers protested over plans to sell off...

Jean-Michel Basquiat enjoys a stratospheric following -- earlier this year, a 1982 oil painting by the late 20th century great...

A crane moves a giant bucket brimming with 40 tonnes of molten steel towards a gangway in North Korea's Chollima...