Police ordered the public to disperse from downtown Los Angeles after further unrest, with security forces firing tear gas at ...

India's economy grew by 6.5 percent in the fiscal year that ended in March, positioning among the world's top performers.

France is set to mark Tuesday 10 years since an Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper that shocked the country and led to fierce debate about freedom of expression and religion.

The UN condemned a US-backed aid system in Gaza after 47 people were injured in a food distribution that saw shots fired by ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) – a huge hydro dam on the Nile River that is set to become Africa’s largest – is a national project fully financed by the Ethiopian people and government.

Doda, Jammu and Kashmir — As the Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir continues to be under the worst lockdown in recent memory, the federal government dropped a bombshell in the Indian parliament by ...

In November 2018, Chinese biophysics researcher He Jiankui made a historic announcement. Two twin girls – nicknamed Lulu and Nana – had become the world’s first genetically modified human beings.

Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday said that men living in Russia’s predominantly Muslim region can take as many as four wives, even though polygamy is banned in the country. Kadyrov, who has ...

In Japan today, there are 1.6 openings for each job applicant. Dozens of firms fail every month because of a lack of workers. With birthrates continuing to stagnate, the nation’s productive age ...

Many people imagine that countries with authoritarian regimes are horrifying places, with populations ruled by terror and indoctrinated to blind obedience by some ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel conceded Friday that her government was driven to act faster on climate change by young activists like teenaged Greta Thunberg, who was speaking at rally in Berlin the ...