ISTANBUL: Turkish police detained 280 suspects in a money-laundering investigation into the transfer of about 2.5 billion lira ($419 million) worth of foreign currency to bank accounts abroad, state media said on Tuesday.The vast

The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia has climbed to 1,347, according to the country's disaster management agency, as rescue teams scramble to search for survivors buried in

The toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has soared to more than 1,234 with authorities fearing it will only climb as rescuers struggle to reach outlying communities cut off from communications and

At least 44 people were killed during fighting between rival ethnic groups in western Ethiopia over the weekend, state-affiliated media reported. The clashes occurred on the border between the central Oromia and western Benishangul-Gumuz regions, local

More than 62,000 Brazilians have died as a result of violent crimes in the last year, breaking a record of homicides in the country. The increase is largely caused by rival drug gangs battling

At least 34 refugees have drowned in a shipwreck along the western Mediterranean, the UN migration agency said, citing the Moroccan navy and a Spanish aid agency. Helena Maleno, a Morocco-based activist with Spanish NGO

Many Americans live in poverty, unable to find affordable housing. For more than a century, thousands were spared from homelessness by inexpensive, single-room hotels; but rising costs and the lure of growing real-estate values

At least 21 endangered Asian lions have died in the past 18 days in a national park in western India, home to the South Asian country's entire population of around 500 big cats. Ten Asiatic lions died

Dozens of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die every year from flooding caused by rivers and sewage systems becoming blocked by plastic rubbish. The government has now banned the manufacturing and

Kathmandu, Nepal - The Nepal government's nationwide crackdown on a Maoist splinter group has raised fears of violence more than 10 years after the end of an armed communist rebellion. Up to 100 leaders