Sri Lankan Prime Minister-elect Ranil Wickremesinghe (right) and his wife Maithree Wickremesinghe wave to media at his Temple Trees residence in Colombo, yesterday....
Sri Lankan Prime Minister-elect Ranil Wickremesinghe (right) and his wife Maithree Wickremesinghe wave to media at his Temple Trees residence in Colombo, yesterday....
Syrian refugees arrive on a dinghy at the Greek island of Kos after crossing a part of the Aegean sea from Turkey to...
Melbourne, Australia By Justin Wm. Moyer and Nick Kirkpatrick The Economist Intelligence Unit is out with its annual ranking of the world's most...
Former Arkansas governor and 2016 American Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee giving a speech during a press conference in Jerusalem yesterday. JERUSALEM: Republican...
Ertharin Cousin (centre), Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, speaks during a press conference in Cairo yesterday. Cairo: The United...
Tehran: Iran’s parliament announced yesterday the final composition of a 15-member panel largely composed of conservative lawmakers to review the country’s nuclear deal...
An Israeli border guard restrains a Palestinian protester who was trying to reach tractors working on the construction of Israel’s controversial barrier in...
Militants loyal to Yemen's exiled government ride on the back of a pick-up truck in the country's central city of Taiz August 19,...
ISTANBUL: Turkey is heading rapidly toward a new election and only the "will of the people" can break a political deadlock after the...
BY MATTHEW STOCK A team of engineers from the University of Southampton launched a 3D printed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from the bow...
People hold signs calling for the release of imprisoned wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning while marching in a gay pride parade in San Francisco,...
This image released by the Royal Thai Police on Wednesday shows a detailed sketch of the main suspect in a bombing at the...
Thai military personnel work with a detection dog on the Bangkok Skywalk August 19, 2015, as authorities step up security in the city...
Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters parade through the northeast Syrian town of Qamishli after battlin BEIRUT: A suicide bomber set off a...
PUNE: In a post-midnight swoop, Maharashtra police arrested five students of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) from the campus for rioting,...
Four bloggers have been hacked to death in Bangladesh since the start of the year, sparking protests in Dhaka. DHAKA: Bangladesh has arrested...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech to members of the Indian expatriate community in the United Arab Emirates at the Dubai...
Ranil Wickremesinghe, leader of Sri Lanka's United National Party (UNP), and his wife Maitree Wickremesinghe at the Prime Minister's official residence in Colombo....
