Egypt's public prosecutor, Mr Barakat, died of his wounds in hospital following a bomb attack on his car in Cairo, reports say. The Egyptian state...

Opponents of the death penalty suffered a setback when the US Supreme Court upheld the use of a contentious drug in executions, saying it...

Its reported that in Japan, six people have been injured, two seriously, after a passenger set himself on fire on a Shinkansen bullet train. A...

Global Trachoma Mapping Project, funded by UK-aid,  aims to eliminate the disease by 2020 in sudan with technology and research.Trachoma - the world's leading...

Delegates from 57 countries are getting together in China for the signing ceremony of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a new international financial...

US Supreme Court has ruled that Same-sex marriage is a legal right across America. The ruling means that 14 states with bans on same-sex marriage...

Jurong Island Phase 4 increased the land surface of Singapore with 540 hectares, and the Tuas View extension added another 920 hectares.  In order...

European Central Bank has decided not to extend emergency funding to Greece.  This resulted in Greek government introducing capital controls and temporarily closing banks...

A luxury-shopping revolution is taking shape in Iran.  The roadside billboards and  luxury shopping centres that have come across Tehran makes it clear that...

EU leaders have agreed to relocate 40,000 migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece to various EU states. EU leaders, after their talks in...