Demonstrators take part in the annual New Year's Day march with signs on their heads in Hong Kong, China today. Demonstrators are demanding...
Demonstrators take part in the annual New Year's Day march with signs on their heads in Hong Kong, China today. Demonstrators are demanding...
Paris: A French reporter forced to leave Beijing after she criticised government policy in violence-racked Xinjiang arrived home Friday after warning of dark...
German police secure the main train station in Munich, Germany, January 1, 2016. REUTERS Munich: German police Friday lifted an alert of an...
The US tuna fishing fleet has been blocked from the lucrative western Pacific for the first time in three decades as a conflict...
Islamabad: Pakistan military courts have sentenced nine men to death for terrorism-related offences or attacks on minority Shiites, the army said Friday. Pakistan...
Beijing: Married couples in China will from Friday be allowed to have two children, after concerns over an ageing population and shrinking workforce...
A South Korean soldier walks past a television screen showing a broadcast of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's New Year speech, at a...
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday promised he will keep his nation out of war following the introduction of contentious new...
A bulldozer crushes boxes of peaches outside Smolensk in August 2015 after Russian officials began a controversial drive to destroy Western food smuggled...
A copy of "Mein Kampf", Hitler's anti-Semitic rant, which he wrote from prison in the early 1920s, is seen displayed at the Yad...
Vatican City: Pope Francis's Jubilee Year of Mercy has got off to a sluggish start, to the disappointment of Rome's hoteliers, restaurateurs and...
Kathmandu: As a child soldier with Nepal's Maoists, Mira Rai learned to fire guns, disarm opponents and race down trails, little imagining her...
File photo BEIJING: Chinese authorities have formally arrested 11 people for their role in a deadly landslide last month in the southern boomtown...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has denounced possible new US sanctions on his country, which, if enacted, could jeopardise a hard-won nuclear deal Tehran:...
Smoke billows from the Address Downtown Hotel, after it caught on fire hours earlier, on January 1, 2015 (AFP Photo/Karim Sahib) Dubai: Grasping...
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Fireworks explode around Big Ben during New Year's celebrations in London just after midnight on January 1, 2016 (AFP Photo/Justin Tallis) London: Britain...
People watch fireworks during New Year celebrations at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro (AFP Photo/Yasuyoshi Chiba) Paris: Europe welcomed in the New...