Revelers of the Aguia de Ouro samba school perform during the first night of the carnival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on February 6,...
Revelers of the Aguia de Ouro samba school perform during the first night of the carnival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on February 6,...
A Health Ministry employee fumigates a home against the Aedes aegypti mosquito in the San Lucia del Camino community, Oaxaca State, Mexico. AFP/Patricia...
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was thrust into the global spotlight Friday with its finding that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (pictured)...
Kiev: Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Friday threatened to quit along with his entire government in the latest escalation of a political...
“If Ukraine doesn’t come through with the reforms linked to the Minsk peace process, it will be very difficult for Europe to continue...
The embalmed corpses of two Catholic saints, including that of the venerated Italian friar Padre Pio (pictured) went on display in St Peter's...
London: Smiling and squinting in the daylight, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke from the balcony of Ecuador's embassy Friday in a rare public...
Washington: BMX star, X Games champion and former MTV host Dave Mirra died Thursday in an apparent suicide, authorities in the US state...
File photo: US president Barack Obama shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping after their informal meeting at the start of the...
Belgrade: Serbia's parliament on Friday dismissed Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic over an insulting remark he made to a female journalist. Lawmakers voted to...
The stance, taken by Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, threw up a road block to Sanchez’ attempts to win support for a viable coalition,...
By Tim McLaughlin and Peter Eisler WASHINGTON: Barack Obama might seem an unlikely investor in the firearms industry. But the U.S. president, a...
Malian soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint at the entrance to Timbuktu, Mali, after unknown assailants attacked and withdrew from inside a U.N....
RIO DE JANEIRO: Zika has been identified in the saliva and urine of two patients infected by the virus, a leading Brazilian health...
The plans are welcomed by NATO whose chief, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (pictured) says it will mean “more troops in the eastern part...
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Friday urged Britain and Sweden to let him walk free from Ecuador's embassy in London after a UN...
Senior Orthodox cleric Metropolitan Hilarion said that long-standing differences between the two churches remain, most notably a row over the status of the...
Berlin: The German government and the country's skilled craft sector on Friday launched an initiative to offer 10,000 refugees on-the-job training places as...
