Former swimming great Kirsty Coventry says she sees no problem in being a candidate to become the most powerful person in ...

Japanese media are still failing to report sexual assault cases properly, a key figure in the country's nascent #MeToo ...

The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have invited US President Donald Trump to visit this year for the 80th anniversary of ...

The president of crisis-hit Democratic Republic of Congo was set to meet his Rwandan counterpart at an emergency summit on ...

A deadly stampede on Wednesday hit India's Kumbh Mela, a vast Hindu festival held by the banks of the Ganges river that 400 ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed that Pyongyang's nuclear programme would continue "indefinitely", state media reported ...

A stampede at the world's largest religious gathering in India killed at least 15 people with many more injured, a doctor at ...

The UN peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of the risk of ethnically motivated attacks as ...

Former Belgium midfielder Radja Nainggolan was charged on Monday as part of an investigation into cocaine trafficking on an ...

France has slammed a series of attacks on diplomatic missions in Kinshasa, fuelled by tensions over the M23 rebel conflict in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that his country could hold peace talks with Ukraine, but ruled out speaking ...

Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Tuesday that Israel had freed nine Lebanese prisoners under the terms of ...