Police in Brazil have arrested the governor of Rio de Janeiro state on allegations he took part in a corruption and money-laundering group, federal prosecutors said. In the latest blow to Brazil's political elite

German investigators looking for evidence of possible money laundering have searched multiple offices belonging to Deutsche Bank. A total of 170 officers from the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office, the Criminal Bureau of Investigation (BKA),

Some of the world's most unique buildings are competing for top honours at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam. One of them is an apartment building in New York by the late Iraqi-born British

New Delhi/Mumbai - On Wednesday, thousands of farmers, labourers, and rural workers from across India boarded trains to the capital to participate in a two-day "Dilli Challo" (Let's go to Delhi) march. They are

New York City - A Jewish professor's office at a university in New York City has been vandalised with anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas and an anti-Semitic slur, underlining recent concerns of a rising number of

Georgia's ruling party-backed candidate, who favours balancing the ex-Soviet republic's relations with Moscow and the West, has won the presidential runoff, according to partial results published on the electoral body's website on Thursday. Figures from the Central Election

All eyes will be on Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday and Friday as leaders from 19 of the world's top economies, as well as representatives from the European Union gather for the 13th G20

A major study published on Thursday warned of a malnutrition crisis in almost every country in the world with India holding about one-third of the world's burden for stunting. Forty-six million children in India

GENEVA: UN war crimes investigators called on Syria on Wednesday to tell families what happened to their relatives who disappeared and provide the medical records and remains of those who died or were executed

Preliminary results in Georgia's presidential runoff show the ruling party-backed candidate Salome Zurabishvili is ahead with nearly 60 percent of the votes. Wednesday's runoff is the last time Georgians will be able to directly