Bilin, Palestinian Territories---Palestinian, Israeli and foreign activists faced off against Israeli forces Friday in the occupied West Bank village of Bilin where they...
Bilin, Palestinian Territories---Palestinian, Israeli and foreign activists faced off against Israeli forces Friday in the occupied West Bank village of Bilin where they...
Beirut---Kurdish fighters gained an important victory against the Islamic State group Friday by seizing a key stronghold in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, the...
Geneva---More than one billion young people risk damaging their hearing through listening to loud music, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday....
Margate, United Kingdom---Britain's anti-EU UK Independence Party is hoping for a major breakthrough in May's general election, but will have to overcome an...
Antananarivo---At least 14 people died in flooding Friday in the Madagascan capital Antananarivo after a night of torrential rain caused dams to burst,...
Mariupol, Ukraine---Pensioner Alla Troyan shares her room with ten other displaced people in a dilapidated social centre in Ukraine's port city Mariupol, after...
Athens - Greece's new radical leftist government plans to rehire workers who were laid off at the country's state broadcaster ERT two years...
Joseph Kony Kampala---The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor pleaded on Friday for the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebel chief to surrender, vowing he...
Bamako---Algerian intermediaries hosting peace talks between the Mali government and militants have produced a draft agreement transferring a raft of powers from Bamako...
Paris - UNESCO chief Irina Bokova called Friday on the International Criminal Court to look into the destruction of priceless artefacts by jihadists...
Malé, Maldives - Thousands of supporters of former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed marched in the honeymoon islands' tiny capital Male Friday to protest...
London - Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad cannot "credibly" be part of any future government combating the threat from the Islamic State (IS) group...
Srinagar, India---Narendra Modi and Kashmir's incoming chief minister put the finishing touches Friday on a deal that will see the premier's Hindu nationalists...
Cairo---More than 25,000 Egyptians have returned from neighbouring Libya since the Islamic State group posted a video earlier this month of the beheadings...
Jakarta---An Australian journalist will be deported from Indonesia Friday after being caught covering the story of two Australian drug traffickers on death row...
Cape Town---A baby stolen from her sleeping mother's arms shortly after birth has been found by the family through an astonishing coincidence 17...
Malé, Maldives---Supporters of former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed streamed to the tiny capital island Male Friday for a mass protest against his detention...
Beijing---Beijing has imposed a one-year ban on imports of ivory carvings, but questions remained Friday on its effect on rising Chinese demand, which...