Australia prime minister Tony Abbott said his country will resettle a “significant” number of refugees from Syria this year.
The opposition called for an additional...
Lightning has killed 22 people, mostly farm labourers working in fields, across the south eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
The state’s chief minister, N....
Ten people died and others are missing after a fishing boat capsized off South Korea’s southern coast.
Three people were rescued and flown to hospital...
Japan’s government lifted a four-and-a-half year evacuation order for the north eastern town of Naraha that had sent all of the town’s 7,400 residents...
Former US intelligence worker Edward Snowden has received a prize from the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression.
Accepting via a live video...
