Sri Lanka are looking to usher in Dinesh Chandimal's era as skipper by bouncing back from a humiliating ODI series...
Worshippers quietly passed through metal detectors as they entered the central mosque in China's far western city of...
Inside South Africa's maximum security Groenpunt prison, hawk-eyed guards stroll between rows of wooden benches,...
A giant bulldozer digs a deep ditch among the bushes surrounding the University of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria,...
International pressure on the Palestinian Authority to halt payments to the families of Palestinians held in Israeli...
Another 38 probable mass graves have been discovered in DR Congo in the country's troubled central region of Kasai, the...
US military advisors are operating inside the city of Raqa, the Islamic State group's last major bastion in Syria, a US...
A newly-opened trial over a 2015 attack at the Bardo museum in Tunisia's capital that killed 21 foreign tourists and a...
South Sudan government forces have launched an offensive towards a rebel stronghold in the north of the country, the UN...
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Wednesday suspended negotiations with Washington aimed at ending sanctions against...
The UN aid chief on Wednesday blamed Yemen's warring parties and their foreign backers for a 'man-made' cholera...
The US-led coalition attacking the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria killed as many as 744 civilians in June, an...
Sudan voiced regret on Wednesday over a US decision to keep sanctions in place for another three months but expressed...
Zimbabwean riot police in the capital Harare fired tear gas and used water cannon on Wednesday to break an opposition...
At least 15 people were killed when four female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in Maiduguri, northeast...
Afghan authorities on Wednesday recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of seven passengers kidnapped by gunmen in the...
ISIS has finally admitted its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, according to reports in Iraq. The terror group is...
Iran and Oman will work to boost their ties, the Islamic republic's President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, as a...
Authorities imposed a curfew Wednesday in parts of Indian-administered Kashmir after three rebels were killed in a...