Police in the southern Indian state of Kerala have summoned a Bishop accused of raping a Catholic nun for questioning, following days of protests by a collective of nuns, women's groups and activists. The

The Palestinian envoy to Washington says his staffers have been given a month to pack up after the Trump administration ordered the Palestine Liberation Organization mission closed. Husam Zomlot told The Associated Press on

A controversial cartoon of US tennis star Serena Williams, showing the player as having a temper tantrum at the US Open, has been reprinted in an Australian newspaper. The Herald Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch's

When Katie Coates created an online petition to make pole dancing an Olympic sport, she had little idea of the challenges that lay ahead. It was 2006 and pole dancing had been slowly reinventing

ANKARA, Turkey: Turkish intelligence agents in an operation in Syria have captured a man wanted over a deadly 2013 bomb attack and brought him back to Turkey for questioning, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported on

BENGHAZI, Libya: The extremist Daesh group has claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of Libya’s national oil company in the capital Tripoli that killed two people.Daesh made the announcement in statement carried

RAFAH, Palestinian Territories: The opening of the Palestinians’ first airport, in the presence of US president Bill Clinton, was a symbol of the hopes for independence and peace kindled by the Oslo accords.But 25

Last week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) heard oral arguments in the "Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965" case. This case emerges from a Request for

Closing arguments for the Rafik Hariri assassination trial are under way in The Hague. It has been 13 years since Lebanon's former prime minister was assassinated in a massive truck bombing in Beirut. The

Rockets were fired at Libya’s only functioning airport in Tripoli late on Tuesday, forcing flights to be diverted less than a week after the UN brokered a fragile truce between rival militias in the