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Little Torch Key: Three stranded teenage boys from California called 911 and calmly sat atop a capsized boat before being rescued from waters...

New York: Three Chinese citizens have been criminally charged in the United States with trading on confidential corporate information obtained by hacking into...

Bogota: Kidnappings in Colombia have fallen 92 percent since 2000, a "historic" change, the authorities said as the government and FARC rebels implement...

Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted Wednesday that Israel and a future Palestine should live as two states based on the...

Banjul, Gambia: Ansu Sanyang was ready. Sick of providing so little for his parents and sisters with any work he could find, the...

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank: Abuses of power committed by Israel's Civilian Security Coordinators (CSCs), civilian guards of the illegal settlements, continue to contribute...

KINSHASA: Flooding this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo port city of Boma killed at least 50 people and left another 10,000...

Hong Kong: Busy traffic, loud noise and constant passers-by? Not a problem for these cats. Four-legged "assistants" can be found perched in certain...

BEIJING: Thousands among China's middle class are signing online petitions to protest the dropping of an alleged police brutality case, representing a rare...

HYDERABAD: Vasudeva Prakash left his job as a mechanic in Hyderabad three years ago for what he calls a more lucrative career: taking...

SHANGHAI: When her father’s lung cancer worsened, Yin Min, a 51-year-old financial broker from Shanghai, faced a choice: pay nearly $3,000 a month...

MUMBAI: An increase in baby trafficking in India is reducing the number of children available for adoption and fuelling the lucrative trade as...

Eight human traffickers found guilty of torturing and chopping off the hands of two labourers have received life prison sentences and hefty fines,...

Berlin: German police on Wednesday detained a Tunisian national on suspicion of having ties to Anis Amri, the suspected Berlin truck attacker gunned...

DOHA: A leading Bahraini activist was granted bail on Wednesday after months of detention while facing trail over a series of tweets. Nabeel...

MOSCOW: Another black box from the Russian plane which went down over the Black Sea on Sunday, killing all 92 people on board,...

Amman: A court in Amman on Wednesday sentenced to death five Jordanian members of a dismantled cell linked to the Islamic State jihadist...

Islamabad: Pakistani police on Wednesday caught three men accused of preparing home-made liquor mixed with aftershave that killed 34 people including a fourth...