Forces loyal to Libya's officially recognised government has carried out air strikes on targets in Misrata today in the first such attacks on the city. Officials and residents said that the...

Twenty-four people have been killed and eight others are missing due to floods and mudslides caused by incessant rain around Sri Lanka over the past week, officials said Sunday. About 106,000...

 A ferry carrying 466 people caught fire in gale-force winds off the Greek island of Corfu early yesterday, forcing authorities to order an evacuation. The fire broke out on the car deck of...

In the third incident connected to Malaysia this year, an AirAsia plane with 162 people on board went missing today while flying over the Java Sea after taking off from a provincial city...

  Typhoon Hagupit weakened into a tropical storm today, leaving at least 21 people dead, forcing more than a million people into shelters but sparing most of the central Philippine region...

Syria's state news agency says Israeli airstrikes have hit two areas near the capital, Damascus. SANA says the strikes hit today near the capital's main airport as well as the town of Dimas...

Two Saudi women activists have been detained for nearly a week for defying the kingdom's ban on women driving, family members and an activist said today. The women, who were arrested after...