Sri Lanka's parliament descended into chaos with MPs swinging punches and throwing projectiles a day after legislators voted the prime minister out of office. Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya said the country had no

Dominic Raab has resigned as UK's Brexit Secretary over the proposed EU withdrawal agreement in a huge blow to British Prime Minister Theresa May. "I regret to say that, following the Cabinet meeting yesterday on the

Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is set to win re-election, with a provisional count showing his FijiFirst party holding a comfortable lead in the general elections. Over 500,000 Fijians were eligible to vote in Wednesday's vote,

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim-majority Rohingya who fled Myanmar, citing rape, murder and arson, will not be forcibly repatriated, Bangladesh's Rohingya Relief and Repatriation Commissioner has said. "No one will be forced back to

As long as there is war, poverty and insecurity in Africa and the Middle East, migrants and refugees will try and seek a better life in Europe. For many years now, one of the principal

The death toll from destructive wildfires hitting California rose to 25 as rescue workers recovered 14 more bodies of people killed by the late-season infernos. The bodies were discovered in or near the decimated

By Florence de Talhouet France's "grands ensembles" - high-rise housing estates built between the 1950s and 1970s - were inspired by the functionalist architecture of the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier. The Athens Charter, a

A team of scientists in Australia are preparing to fire high-powered lasers into space to blast some of the 170 million pieces of man-made debris orbiting the earth. That cosmic clutter, building up since

Yemeni forces, backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have seized control of a hospital in the western city of Hodeidah which was taken over by Houthi fighters earlier this week. The

There are 68.5 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Of these, 25.4 million are refugees, and 68 percent of all the refugees come from just five countries: