Nepalese authorities said Monday they feared an outbreak of diseases as they attempt to reach thousands of people stranded by flooding that has already killed more than 100 people.   The...

Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine centre for suspected patients and took items including...

Separatist rebels in the east have shot down a Ukrainian fighter plane, a Ukrainian military spokesman said .   Oleksiy Dmitrashkovsky said that the plane was shot down over the Luhansk...

A rebel leader in eastern Ukraine has said a convoy of military hardware is on its way to the region from Russia.   Alexander Zakharchenko, self-proclaimed PM of the Donetsk rebel area, said...

Riot police have confronted dozens of protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, as tensions again rose over the shooting of a black teenager by police there.   Several stores were looted and bottles...

Militants in northern Iraq have massacred at least 80 men from the Yazidi faith in a village and abducted women and children, reports say.   Senior Kurdish official Hoshyar Zebari said the...

A sniper who was famously filmed urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in 2011 has mysteriously been found dead in his North Carolina home.   Former Marine Corporal Robert Richards,...

Pope Francis has conducted a large open-air Mass to beatify 124 of South Korea's first Catholics at a ceremony in the capital Seoul on Saturday.   He paid tribute to the Koreans, who...

EU producers of cauliflowers, cucumbers, mushrooms, peppers, and tomatoes are likely to be next in line for European Commission help in response to the Russia food ban.   A commission...

A man has died after more than 30 people - including children - were found in a shipping container at Tilbury Docks in Essex, police say.   Two people have been taken to hospital while...