With Myanmar emerging as a manufacturing hub for mass-produced clothes, a crop of young designers are using home-grown fashion to preserve the country's sartorial heritage and reshape the sweatshop...
Vanuatu elected a pastor as its new president Thursday as the tiny pacific nation eyes continued "moral leadership" following the sudden death of its former head of state last month, local media...
A woman from the United States was arrested Wednesday for allegedly tossing 100 live bullets into the garbage at an airport in Japan, local media reported. Japan strictly controls the possession of...
A faulty boiler caused an explosion at a Bangladesh factory that killed 13 people this week, authorities said Wednesday, as survivors accused the owners of ignoring their concerns. A government...
The United States lifted Wednesday a ban on carrying large electronic devices such as laptops in the cabin of US-bound flights from Turkey's main international airport, Turkish Airlines and local...
A Fox Sports executive was abruptly fired on Monday amid a probe by the US cable giant on sexual harassment in the workplace. Jamie Horowitz, who oversaw programing for Fox Sports, was fired at his...
A South African opposition party on Monday asked police to investigate allegations that taxpayers' money paid for the lavish wedding of a family with close ties to President Jacob Zuma. Citing leaked...
A man has been arrested after allegedly biting off a wedding guest’s fingertip at a reception in Sydney. The 42-year-old intruder walked into the private function at a pub on Saturday night and...
Deirdre Larkin breezes through Johannesburg's suburbs most mornings, her white hair buffeted by the wind as she runs her well-trodden eight-kilometre training course. At 85-years-old, this retired...
Luis Suarez has often suffered accusations of going to ground too easily, hitting the deck in the hope of winning a penalty or two. The Barcelona star has built up quite a reputation over the years ,...
Former US president Barack Obama arrived Friday in his former childhood home Jakarta, where he met Indonesia's president at the end of a ten-day family holiday. Indonesia's President Joko Widodo met...
The White House envoy coordinating the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group was holding talks in Ankara on Friday a day after visiting a Syrian Kurdish militia deemed by Turkey to be...
China's President Xi Jinping will want for nothing during his three-day visit to Hong Kong after taking over two entire luxury hotels with more than 1,300 rooms between them. The glitzy harbourfront...
There's no electricity and only 500 residents in the Congolese village of Makwatsha, but a longstanding tradition by its womenfolk has turned it almost by accident into a star attraction for Chinese...
Kenya has delayed plans to export its first oil in June by three months to better negotiate revenue sharing with the local community, the country's energy minister said Thursday. The announcement...
The collapse occurred less than two weeks after president Kenyatta visited the site as part of a campaign tour before general elections in August. Kenyatta, who is up for reelection, has been...
Warren Gatland's dream of one day coaching the All Blacks -- already a long shot -- is almost certainly doomed unless his British and Irish Lions can muster a Test win this weekend. Gatland, a proud...
A 32-year-old man has been arrested for ramming his car into a monument to the Ten Commandments outside the Arkansas state legislature early Wednesday, shattering the statue less than 24 hours after...
British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland has given the strongest indication yet he will overhaul the forward pack found wanting in last week's first Test loss to the All Blacks. As he mulls...
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has marked the end of Ramadan with an audio broadcast to the nation, the presidency said, his first public statement since going on medical leave in early May....
