Senegal's Supreme Court rejected bail for Dakar's popular mayor on Thursday, preventing him from campaigning in upcoming legislative elections and likely sparking further tensions with supporters of...
Donald Trump hit the six-month point of his turbulent presidency Thursday in combative style -- lashing out at his own attorney general over the probe into Russia's alleged election meddling that has...
Israel's army boosted security Thursday and braced for possibile unrest on the eve of the main weekly Muslim prayers after security measures imposed at a sensitive Jerusalem site angered...
Ram Nath Kovind was elected India's new president Thursday, the second time since independence a head of state has been chosen from the bottom of the Hindu caste system. Kovind won the largely...
Hundreds of refugees being held at a remote Papua New Guinea detention camp will be moved by October despite uncertainty over a resettlement deal with the United States, Australia's immigration...
A leader of Thailand's 'Red Shirt' movement was jailed Thursday for defaming an ex-prime minister, sidelining a key voice of dissent against the ruling junta ahead of polls expected in 2018....
Donald Trump took office trailing a string of promises made during a bruising election campaign. Six months into his presidency, here is where the 45th occupant of the White House stands in...
The Supreme Court dealt President Donald Trump's government a fresh setback Wednesday, saying its controversial travel ban cannot be applied to grandparents and other close relatives of people living...
India's Supreme Court began hearing submissions Wednesday to determine whether Indians have a constitutional right to privacy in a challenge to the government's massive biometric database, which...
Donald Trump's first six months in the White House have been a riot of scandal, chaos and outrage that -- absent a major course correction -- could spell doom for his entire administration. All US...
Huddled around a small table in the halls of a cavernous Washington concert hall, a group of Afghan teenage girls tweak gears and sprockets on their radio-controlled robot, hoping to best the...
Restoring the power of summons to traditional rulers was a surest way to ending the menace of child marriages in communities across the country, the Queenmother of Pai-Kantaga in the Krachi East...
An unofficial referendum rejects plans to rewrite Venezuela’s constitution, but the President says it is “meaningless”. More than seven million voters have taken part in the...
The abrupt departure of American officials from an Australian Pacific island refugee camp has fanned fears among asylum-seekers that plans to resettle them in the US may not go ahead, an activist...
India's cricket board on Saturday made a U-turn on naming former paceman Zaheer Khan and batting great Rahul Dravid as consultants to the national Test team. The move came only four days after Khan...
India's next president will emerge from the Dalit caste -- a community so marginalised they were once known as "untouchables" -- with the victory of the ruling party candidate set to strengthen Prime...
A Hawaii judge has dealt a fresh setback to President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from six mainly-Muslim countries and refugees, saying it unfairly excludes the grandparents and grandchildren of...
Two popular Indian Premier League teams will be back in action next year after serving a two-year ban over a scandal that involved illegal betting on matches, the cricket board said Friday. A Supreme...
Scores of LLB graduates have turned up at the University of Ghana campus to write this year’s law school entrance exams despite last minute attempts to halt the exercise. The exam is currently...
Grandparents and other relatives of people living in the US cannot be barred from entering under President Trump’s travel ban, a judge has ruled. The order, by District Judge Derrick Watson in...
