Japan's oldest professional player of the board game Go retired on Wednesday aged 98, saying that she can no longer handle ...

Recent clashes in Somalia's semi-autonomous Jubaland region are alarming experts, exposing cracks in the country's federal ...

New Zealand's central bank on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate to a three-year low, seeking to inject momentum into the country's "stalled" economy.

Grinding charcoal with a few drops of goat's milk, 60-year-old Basran Jogi peers at the faces of two small Pakistani sisters ...

Un tribunal militar de Nueva Zelanda condenó el miércoles a un soldado a dos años de prisión por intento de espionaje a favor de una potencia extranjera, la primera sentencia por esa actividad en la h ...

When he was a teenager, Bekmurad Khodjayev used to hide from his parents to smoke. Fifty years later, the Turkmen pensioner is still hiding, but this time from the police.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister accused Seoul on Wednesday of having a "double character", slamming it for holding military drills with the US while attempting diplomatic overtures ...

The death toll from a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants returning from Iran and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan has risen to 76, a provincial official said on Wednesday.

Australia lashed Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday after he said the country's prime minister was weak, with a top minister saying strength was more than "how many people you can blow up" ...

Senator Rodrigo Paz, the surprise top finisher in Bolivia's first-round presidential election, spent years traveling the country, posting hundreds of social media videos and honing his image like a ...

It is the highest-grossing movie of the year, and the biggest animated film ever made -- but if you live outside China, ...

More than 20 people have died in a fresh spell of monsoon rain in Pakistan, the country's disaster management agency said on Wednesday.