All 78 children and a driver kidnapped in west Cameroon were released on Wednesday, but the school principal and one teacher are still being held by the armed men, a priest conducting negotiations said.

Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made history in the United States as the youngest woman elected to Congress, championing her working class and Puerto Rican roots. "We have made history tonight," the 29-year-old told cheering

CAIRO: Egypt wants “formal agreements” that Ethiopia will not reduce Cairo’s share of the Nile during the filling of what will be Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam. President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told reporters on Tuesday “we

LONDON: Iran’s judiciary has convicted at least 24 protesters on what Human Rights Watch has called “vaguely defined national security charges,” according to a statement from the group.Prison sentences range from six months to

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s tourism minister has apologized to Egypt after criticizing the country’s cleanliness and living conditions in a newspaper interview, Lebanon’s state news agency NNA said.Caretaker Tourism Minister Avedis Guidanian, in the interview published

Nearly two years after women spilled out into the streets of Washington and in cities across the country in defiance of the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the United States is sending more women

A man used his surfboard to fend off a shark that bit his leg near an Australian beach, two days after a fatal attack on the Great Barrier Reef. The 43-year-old surfer was attacked

This year's US midterm elections have already made history. In the primaries, a record number of women, Native Americans, and Muslim candidates ran for office. As results from Tuesday's votes continue to stream in,

Democrats Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids have become the first Native American women elected to Congress. Haaland won New Mexico's first congressional district, while Davids won the third district in Kansas. A member of

Organised crime groups are expanding and diversifying drug production in Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle raising concern the region could emerge as a hub for synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, according to the UN's Office