Australia's prime minister has announced that the government is introducing emergency legislation to prosecute people caught contaminating fruit. The country’s strawberry industry is in crisis because of a scare about needles found in strawberries.

A US police force has suspended the use of a self-deleting text messaging service after an Al Jazeera investigation found it could have been used to conceal evidence. The Tiger Text application, which permanently

The number of children returning to school in Yemen has dropped to a new low as the years-long war continues to devastate much of the country. The United Nations is warning of a lost

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s rival Shiite blocs in parliament have agreed on who they want as the next prime minister after making progress in negotiations towards forming a government, negotiators told Arab News. The two factions,

Mbabane, Eswatini - Clutching a loudspeaker, a young man standing atop a pick-up truck repeatedly shouts "Votela! Votela!" as rush-hour pedestrians and shoppers walk past behind him, seemingly uninterested. He is urging them to

South Africa's highest court has legalised the private use of marijuana, upholding a lower court's ruling that found the criminalisation of cannabis was unconstitutional. In delivering the Constitutional Court's unanimous verdict, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond

Defence lawyers for a former top commander in Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have begun their case at the International Criminal Court. Dominic Ongwen is facing 70 charges of war crimes, including murder, sexual

Nargis Hameedullah has had to fight for her dreams all her life - both on and off the field. The 19-year-old is a Pakistani karateka based in Quetta, capital of the western province of

Two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air attack near the fence between Gaza and Israel in the southern Gaza Strip, the health ministry said. The two men, who were later identified as

BEIRUT: Pro-Hezbollah politicians in south Beirut were accused of provocation on Tuesday for naming a street after the assassin who plotted the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. To rub salt in